...gives away more in a year than my entire shire will earn in a generation. However, there are two flies in that ointment. The first is that the vast majority of his "charity" goes to supporting organisations which he has a stake in (he only really got stuck into IP issues after buying a drug company that makes vaccines); the second is that although the absolute amounts he donates are staggering, the relative portion of his income that goes to these self-interested "charity" funds is smaller than the portion an average American single mother would donate.
I am sure the first thought of it was 'if I am the first to a safe consumer driven space market, then not only will my name be down in history, but I'll also make an almost uncanny amount of money.'
That would not harmonise with anything else (that I know of) which Burt's ever done in his life. I mean, it's all very well pulling bets out of your ass, but when it turns sharply away from history's trajectory, you'd should be prepared to explain in detail why we should accept it.
...in that when you started getting matches here and there, each side would have some idea of how chunks of the other worked. It might be possible to finesse boundary conditions to get even more precise info (ie, divine the entire content of matching sections as long as or longer than and not necessarily a multiple of the shredding chunk size (5 in this example)).
Oh, yes, and pork the unprintable lameness filter sideways with a rusty barbed-wire condom: it stinks! There should at least be a "yes, I know it's lame, post it anyway" checkbox.
He's extremely patient and reasonable, which about sums up SCO's most obvious deficiencies, and not at all greedy for either money or attention, which apparently sums up SCO's entire motivation (or more specifically, D'ohl's entire motivation). Is it any wonder that they're jealous of him?
...but in terms of following standards and doing "the right thing" IE on Mac feeds IE on MS-Windows its dust. Your "ugly interface" is entirely subjective and I happen to prefer the Mac face of IE.
For the record, I'm not a Mac user (at least, we have one 68k OS 7 Mac for games like Bubble Trouble, and one early PPC Mac as a Linux (YDL) thin client on another (Mandrake) Linux workstation, zero Windows boxen).
It's also likely that Sequent would have been operating under a similar licence to IBM all along, and IBM's licence (before amendment and AFAICT afterwards too) yielded them rights to all modifications they made.
I suspect he is confusing the Utah suicide rate with the Mormon rate.
I don't know if "confused" is exactly the right word. The figures I last saw were for the Salt Lake City area, and showed suicide in this Mormon-dominated city at 77% higher than comparable control cities. Since I'm not Mormon it has no direct impact on me, but I do have a soft spot for Mormons so I would be happy to be shown to be wrong.
Surely if terrorists were to use Apache 1.3.14, they would use the chunked-encoding memory corruption vulnerability?
SCO can probably dig an amendment out of their filing cabinets somewhere to cover the process of breaking into a web server. They seem to be practiced at terrorist tactics (standover, blackmail, broadcast fear, demanding money etc).
BTW, the starting mod value of -1 for your post sucks big time. What's the point in posting if the post is going to start off invisible?
IBM's agreement says they own any IP ("derivatives") that they add. Sequent are a part of IBM. It doesn't matter how large a claim you multiply by zero, it's still zero. Math done, next question?
Even if they can track the poster's IP and time, burden of proof now lies with SCO that the posting was not the friend (or one of his friends) making stuff up based on what employee or other employees (or cleaner, security guard, yadda yadda) said.
BTW, Mormons may be taught to obey, and may have some seriously wild theology kicking around (not the stuff they share across your kitchen table), but they're generally hard-working and bright. This is probably why so many of them suicide; the other reason may be Utah companies as stupid as SCO.
SCO have been awfully quiet about that as well. I bet it includes a major gotcha that SCO don't like. How they hjope to keep it out of court is beyond me.
Companies seem to somehow be absolved of many of the moral responsibilities that people are expected to display. Regardless of what law and/or precedent have to say on the topic, that's a serious error that needs rapid and definite correction. If anything, a corporation should be more responsible than an individual. Individuals have lives and freedoms to lose, and a definite ceiling on their lifespan; corporations do not.
If the AC is out of a job, it's likely to be at least in part the fault of a greedy coorporation or two that hogged resources and fought destructively and dirty instead of co-operatively and clean. Greedy corporations (like SCO at present) are almost always driven by one or a few greedy individuals. They should not be able to use any corporation as a moral facade that they can hide behind.
Contrast insert-random-company-here with (say) Scaled Composites. Burt Rutan may well make more megabucks as a consequence of his venture, but he doesn't need to and he knows it. If I had anything to bet you, it would be down on this premise: Rutan is doing it primarily for the challenge and to see if he can, not in the hope of earning squillions. Notice that even his domain has a wordplay in it: SCALED.COMposites. Anything that will encourage fair, competent and happy players like him and discourage the greedy has to be a good thing!
...or more particularly D'ohl McBride's ass - if I read the sentiment correctly - since he seems to be the motivating force behind this whole circus.
AFAICT, most posters want IBM to kick SCO's ass simply and only because IBM are the only ones in an obvious position to. If Mandrake or Mozilla.org could do it, so much the better, but probably not this decade if ever.
On the other hand, if SCO loses, it will send a strong message to the world: "Stay away from anything GPL, or you'll find your proprietary code taken away from you."
Twit! )-:
Would it be any different if SCO lost against a manufacturer of proprietary software?
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That would not harmonise with anything else (that I know of) which Burt's ever done in his life. I mean, it's all very well pulling bets out of your ass, but when it turns sharply away from history's trajectory, you'd should be prepared to explain in detail why we should accept it.
Go buy yourself some more vowels.
...SCO's entire staff, and any other buildings within half a block of ground zero. An implosion can be a messy thing.
...in that when you started getting matches here and there, each side would have some idea of how chunks of the other worked. It might be possible to finesse boundary conditions to get even more precise info (ie, divine the entire content of matching sections as long as or longer than and not necessarily a multiple of the shredding chunk size (5 in this example)).
...the SCOsueme petition? (-:
...and that only where syntactically necessary, and remove blank lines and case-fold.
Oh, yes, and pork the unprintable lameness filter sideways with a rusty barbed-wire condom: it stinks! There should at least be a "yes, I know it's lame, post it anyway" checkbox.
I told you those Linux zealots would try to hide the SCO stuff if we identified it!
He's extremely patient and reasonable, which about sums up SCO's most obvious deficiencies, and not at all greedy for either money or attention, which apparently sums up SCO's entire motivation (or more specifically, D'ohl's entire motivation). Is it any wonder that they're jealous of him?
For the record, I'm not a Mac user (at least, we have one 68k OS 7 Mac for games like Bubble Trouble, and one early PPC Mac as a Linux (YDL) thin client on another (Mandrake) Linux workstation, zero Windows boxen).
It's also likely that Sequent would have been operating under a similar licence to IBM all along, and IBM's licence (before amendment and AFAICT afterwards too) yielded them rights to all modifications they made.
I don't know if "confused" is exactly the right word. The figures I last saw were for the Salt Lake City area, and showed suicide in this Mormon-dominated city at 77% higher than comparable control cities. Since I'm not Mormon it has no direct impact on me, but I do have a soft spot for Mormons so I would be happy to be shown to be wrong.
SCO can probably dig an amendment out of their filing cabinets somewhere to cover the process of breaking into a web server. They seem to be practiced at terrorist tactics (standover, blackmail, broadcast fear, demanding money etc).
BTW, the starting mod value of -1 for your post sucks big time. What's the point in posting if the post is going to start off invisible?
IBM's agreement says they own any IP ("derivatives") that they add. Sequent are a part of IBM. It doesn't matter how large a claim you multiply by zero, it's still zero. Math done, next question?
Boise gets paid only if SCO win. AFAICT, Boise has lost it.
End of story.
Even if they can track the poster's IP and time, burden of proof now lies with SCO that the posting was not the friend (or one of his friends) making stuff up based on what employee or other employees (or cleaner, security guard, yadda yadda) said.
BTW, Mormons may be taught to obey, and may have some seriously wild theology kicking around (not the stuff they share across your kitchen table), but they're generally hard-working and bright. This is probably why so many of them suicide; the other reason may be Utah companies as stupid as SCO.
...in the belly of a whale... "swimming with fishes" seems singularly apropos.
...on a gold and light blue background?
...at least half a dozen times every day.
Yup! Noy, oh, boy, they sure do! (-:
SCO have been awfully quiet about that as well. I bet it includes a major gotcha that SCO don't like. How they hjope to keep it out of court is beyond me.
Subject says it all. (-:
If the AC is out of a job, it's likely to be at least in part the fault of a greedy coorporation or two that hogged resources and fought destructively and dirty instead of co-operatively and clean. Greedy corporations (like SCO at present) are almost always driven by one or a few greedy individuals. They should not be able to use any corporation as a moral facade that they can hide behind.
Contrast insert-random-company-here with (say) Scaled Composites. Burt Rutan may well make more megabucks as a consequence of his venture, but he doesn't need to and he knows it. If I had anything to bet you, it would be down on this premise: Rutan is doing it primarily for the challenge and to see if he can, not in the hope of earning squillions. Notice that even his domain has a wordplay in it: SCALED.COMposites. Anything that will encourage fair, competent and happy players like him and discourage the greedy has to be a good thing!
AFAICT, most posters want IBM to kick SCO's ass simply and only because IBM are the only ones in an obvious position to. If Mandrake or Mozilla.org could do it, so much the better, but probably not this decade if ever.
Twit! )-:
Would it be any different if SCO lost against a manufacturer of proprietary software?
(breaks out clue-by-four)... <thwack> <thwack> <THWACK!>