" I cannot convince my parents to follow proper PC security procedures.. just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use"
How about putting a password protected screensaver on your parents computer. Or how about setting them up on a Linux desktop where the system is protected from the average non-techie user. Relying on the end user to do anything to secure the computer is bound to fail as they don't understand or can't be bothered.
For instance I installed a file server with an external scsi tape backup in an office. I gave them five tapes marked mon, tue etc. To function properly all was required was a tape be inserted on the said day. I kept getting supports call about the backups not working. One long car journey later I find a tape unit with no tape in it and the unit showing up as disabled in device manager.
I ask where are the tapes. The answer comes back 'they're at home'. You see he was in the habit of unpluging the unit and taking it home at night to copy the files. The schedular not finding the unit would stop working and so when it was plugged back in the following day - it wouldn't work. If there's something that requires user interaction to work, or something they're not supposed to touch you can rely on the average user to do the wrong thing.
"You seem to have never used a touch screen in your life. Allow me to explain: They are always poorly calibrated peices of shit due to the seperation between the display and the sensors"
Like how, it's all electronic. At first boot you perform a calibration. After that it stays that way. I have *never* seen the de-syncing problem. How does the de-syncing problem alter the order of the candidates.
"Having worked with a few touch-screens I have to admit that problems with the calibration are frequent", eserteric
It's always nice to have an expert opinion but according to the article the machine kept listing Republicans only, making it difficult to delect a democrat. How does going out if sync influence the summary of candidates. I too have used touchscreens for over two years and *never* seen de-syncing.
"Another voter who went Democrat across the board kept finding Republicans listed in the summary screen."
"often amplified if the user isn't that technically savvy.", eserteric
"One voter needed assistance from an election official, and even then, needed three tries to convince the machine that he wanted to vote for Democrat Jim Davis"
None of these software firewalls are of any use as they can be disabled by the next exploit. What is needed is a firewall running on standalone embedded hardware. Of course with the use of RPC over HTTP and SOAP, a firewall is of limited use in this day and age.
The US was a one time fan of Hussein back when he was a low level assassin working for the CIA.
"So, your point is that since Saddam was associated with the CIA, and that his personal blog has an article from a professional CIA hater, that somehow that gets your automatic buy-in?"
You're doing it again, making up your own quotes. I make no such point
"I dont get that. The only common factor is that you both hate the president"
You're doing it again, making up your own quotes. I make no such point. I don't really want to engage with a professional troll but since when did opposing presidential legisgation make for a bush hater.
"waving around an Iraqi propaganda story isnt going to sway many people."
Haa haaaaa haaaaaaa. Point me to the text of "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" that mentions Irag.
"And yes there is no mention of Katrina. There is also no mention of Bush taking over the country."
Some believe this legislation bares an uncanny similarity to Martial Law. But there is mention of the President arbitrary suspending peoples rights. How is this any different than declaring Martial Law, which is what this is really about. Bt invoking Sadam, Iraq and president haters you're just engaging in another form of shit throwing.
'The President may employ the armed forces.. the President determines.. the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity..'
The President may employ the armed forces.. the President determines.. the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity..
The President shall notify Congress of the determination to exercise the authority in subsection (a)(1)(A) as soon as practicable after the determination and every 14 days thereafter during the duration of the exercise of that authority.".'
Does it mention the 'Insurrection Act' what does the bill say in regard to the President suspending personal rights. Does Public Law 109-364 give the President power to.. take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities. Yes or No. How is this different that declaring martial law. Could you point us to a working link so as we can judge for ourselves.
"The referred article seems to have been posted originally on Saddam Hussein's supporter's website. It doesn't make it wrong of course but it doesn't lend to credibility or unbiased reporting:", RenderSeven
The US was a one time fan of Hussein back when he was a low level assassin working for the CIA. Here's a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with him.
"Reads to me more of a response to Katrina. Remember Katrina? Thats where we blamed the FEDERAL government for not sending in the state national guard when they had no authority to do it", RenderSeven
There is no mention of Katrina in the cited article
was The Bill Doesnt Say This At All (Score:5, Black Ops)
"They have migrated less than 200 work stations. Can we wait till the project actually approaches completion before deciding upon its success", ffs
"By the end of the year, some 200 workstations close to Lord Mayor Christian Ude and a number of nearby organizational units will be running on a special LiMux client."
"The base client mainly runs on the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 distribution and uses Desktop KDE 3.5 and OpenOffice 2."
'Furthermore, the City Council aims to use Linux to become politically "independent of monopolists like Microsoft."'
"The largest share of that budget -- 38 percent -- is set aside for training courses, but apparently these courses do not have to be as intensive as initially feared."
"After a decision was made in 2003 to migrate to Linux, a number of obstacles had to be overcome over the past three years, causing months of delays. Two years ago, the administration temporarily mothballed the project so it could clear up software patent issues,"
"Blue Pill is the prototype resulting from a security study made by Joanna Rutkowska, which took advantage of new virtualization capabilities of AMD processors (known as SVM and previously as Pacifica) to inject a rootkit in a running Vista operating system"
When people have to resort to abuse to support their argument it makes me suspect that they are trying to distract from the facts. Adams don't actually debunk blue-pill, he calls the research quasi illiterate gibberish and accuses the researcher of attention-whoring, what ever that is. Nothing in the two cited articles provides any actual technical information as to why the injection technique wouldn't work.
"The non-exploit consists of a boot-loaded VT/SVM hypervisor that "http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2006/08/blue-pill-is-q uasi-illiterate.html">undetectably" compromises your chain-loaded host. Recall with me the fundamental theorem of VT/SVM: "VT and SVM make nothing possible that was not possible before."
But one of the alleged benefits of VM was total isolation of the client OSs. If a VM machine can't protect a client OS from malicious processes then what is it for. Answer me that one and name calling don't count as a valid response.
I do recall hearing of RSS previously. Of these, which have been copied by the Firefox team and what are they called. Were such feetures around in similar form before IE7 or does the Firefox team posess a time machine. I do recall hearing of RSS previously.
"In Windows Vista with Protected Mode, IE7 is the first browser to "put itself into a sandbox" and run with low privileges."
It may be the first browser in Windows land but Browsers have been running in protected mode on Linux for years.
"during the IE7 beta process, you've seen other browser vendors copy some of these features"
Like who and when specifically? In the same interview he mentions an address bar spoof, so I guess the real-time anti-phishing functionality is still a little buggy.
But you are allowed to shoot someone as long as the gun manufacturers get imdemnified againsd being sued by the surviving relatives.
this is completely irrelevent to a discussion of free speech.
Surly killing someone is depriving them of the right to free speech.
You do have freedom of speech, just as long as you don't exercise it
"? you are exercising the right to free speech by posting this.
They can't send out a warrent for rs232, can't they? For a new article on slashdot how about posting on how many people have been fired/jailed for posting on a blog/website.
'you accuse us of being warlike, intolerant and un-peacefull, in that case we must kill you', signed Abd-AL-Latif
i'm not sure how this is relevent either.
It's a joke, People have been killed for accusing Islam as being intollerent, ask Solomon Rushdie. It's like those animal rights activists who want peacefull coexistance with small furry creatures only to threaten anyone who don't agree with violence. I'm myself am a a fundemental pacifist and anyone who don't agree with me is going to be put up against a wall and machine-gunned to death:)
Oh s***, I just read up on this and the fella who shot Pim Fortuyn is a Fundementalist Islamist Animal Rights Activist. When's the next shuttle going to take off as I don't think this planet is safe anymore.
"just about as liberal as it gets when it comes to free speech - you are allowed to say anything you want about a group, but you are never allowed to call for violence"
But you are allowed to shoot someone as long as the gun manufacturers get imdemnified againsd being sued by the surviving relatives.
You do have freedom of speech, just as long as you don't exercise it. Now that the commie label can't be used to demonize whole groups, it's saving us from the terr'rists that's the pretext. Now y'all don't go accusing me of being in cahoots with people who think like the following.
'you accuse us of being warlike, intolerant and un-peacefull, in that case we must kill you', signed Abd-AL-Latif
Here's some people exercising their right to free speech.
"There's some buzz moving around the blogosphere that speculates on whether the left-leaning ideology behind one of the most popular search sites on the Internet may be tainting their ability to provide unbiased results"
Does trying to not be evil make you a commie, nowadays. So presumably commentaters like yourself hold the oppposite view, lets do evil while making money.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
Google is a business. The revenue the company generates is derived from offering its search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on Google and on other sites across the web.
"The vendors aren't offering indemnification, Ellison said, and because of SCO, there's all this uncertainty and doubt about intellectual property. He says he will offer indemnification. In the Q&A at the end, he was asked if Oracle was planning to buy SCO to bring that uncertainty to an end. No, was the answer.
"Red Hat has a separate indemnification policy. In Red Hat's case, this policy is called the Open Source Assurance program."
Presumably if Larry really believed the SCO case had any validity he wouldn't even consider using RHEL. And in relation to RHEL and the GPL what's stopping anyone buying a single copy of Oracle Linux and repackage it and selling it with support contracts. Presumably if Larry doesn't allow this then Oracle is in breach of the license.
"We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software"
"The system is implemented in IE7 by turning the address green for sites holding a extended validation certificate"
Any bets on how soon will someone come up with a piece of code that turns the address green on bogus sites. Any security device that relies on the user having to do something or in this case not doing something, is bound to fail. How about a cert built into the DNS system that way when the browser queries a domain name the DNS server returns an 'invalid' code and nothing pops up in the browser. I here by put this in the public domain.
"Callan puts Mozilla's apparent heel-dragging on the new security technology down to the character of its development community"
fud injection: the inneficient Open Source process as compared to the professional commercial product.
"Firms will have to stump up about 150 per cent of what they currently do for an SSL certificate."
How about you get fined each time a phishing site is registered with Verisign.
was Extended Validation SSL, More Secure or Just a Racket?
"we don't have to deal with unreasonable licensing nonsense.. If somebody wants to take BSD code, modify it and not release those changes, then so be it"
There is nothing in the GPL that prevents you doing the same. You are not compelled to release your own changes. Why not use the Lesser GPL and you can still release your apps without the source code.
"I'd be very happy if Microsoft were to use more BSD code in their products. Doing so would result in a vast increase in the quality of their codebase"
Given that most of the protocols used in their codebase are covered by IP protection you would be in a worse position as costs would have to go back up the pyramed to Microsoft.
All this because Stallman is opposed to DRM restrictions being included in the GPL.
"Software radical Richard Stallman.. a lesser-known programmer--infamously more obstinate and far more eccentric.. anticorporate crusader.. band of anarchist acolytes.. anticapitalist bent.. a new crusade.. radical group.. socialist crusade.. so reviles.... putsch..
"A cantankerous and finger-wagging freewheeler, Stallman won't comment on any of this because he was upset by a previous story written by this writer..
"is corpulent and slovenly, with long, scraggly hair, strands of which he has been known to pluck out and toss into a bowl of soup he is eating. His own Web site says Stallman engages in what he calls "rhinophytophilia"--"nasal sex".. Orwellian doublespeak.. Stallmanites..
".. Stallman's enforcers, such as his sidekick and attorney, Columbia Law School professor Eben Moglen..
"ActiveGrid, an open-source software maker in San Francisco, originally planned to distribute its program under a gpl license but changed plans after a big European bank declared it wouldn't use products covered by the gpl, says Peter Yared, chief executive of ActiveGrid."
What is the name of the bank. Provide a citation to any statements of the bank regarding the GPL.
".. Stallman's suicide-bomber move.. hard-core followers.. a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission..
Some previous quotes from Lyons on Open Source..
"For months, in secret, the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs, has been making threats to Cisco Systems"
"Could SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM actually have merit?.. Linux zealots have already decided that the case is worthless and that SCO's.. complaint should have been tossed out ages ago"
"Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group"
"Maryland's security team then leaked the code to external people and used the incident to claim that Diebold's security is awful..."
There is no actual proof that it happened this way. References to labels and 'documents' don't connect these disks with Maryland. It could have happened anywhere along the chain. It isn't the first time Diebold software has leaked.
"A team led by Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, examined the machines' source code, which a Diebold worker anonymously published on the Internet earlier this year"
"The FTP button gave total access to anonymous users, allowing anyone to download and apparently, upload to the server. The FTP site contained no copyright statement, asked for no user name, put locks on no directories. Visitors from anywhere in the world could simply walk in the front door."
"Last week's revelation by Diebold that its automated teller machines
(ATMs) operated by two financial services customers were struck by the
W32/Nachi worm"
Slashdot Mirror
" I cannot convince my parents to follow proper PC security procedures .. just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use"
How about putting a password protected screensaver on your parents computer. Or how about setting them up on a Linux desktop where the system is protected from the average non-techie user. Relying on the end user to do anything to secure the computer is bound to fail as they don't understand or can't be bothered.
For instance I installed a file server with an external scsi tape backup in an office. I gave them five tapes marked mon, tue etc. To function properly all was required was a tape be inserted on the said day. I kept getting supports call about the backups not working. One long car journey later I find a tape unit with no tape in it and the unit showing up as disabled in device manager.
I ask where are the tapes. The answer comes back 'they're at home'. You see he was in the habit of unpluging the unit and taking it home at night to copy the files. The schedular not finding the unit would stop working and so when it was plugged back in the following day - it wouldn't work. If there's something that requires user interaction to work, or something they're not supposed to touch you can rely on the average user to do the wrong thing.
"You seem to have never used a touch screen in your life. Allow me to explain: They are always poorly calibrated peices of shit due to the seperation between the display and the sensors"
Like how, it's all electronic. At first boot you perform a calibration. After that it stays that way. I have *never* seen the de-syncing problem. How does the de-syncing problem alter the order of the candidates.
was Re:Where is my tinfoil hat?
"Having worked with a few touch-screens I have to admit that problems with the calibration are frequent", eserteric
It's always nice to have an expert opinion but according to the article the machine kept listing Republicans only, making it difficult to delect a democrat. How does going out if sync influence the summary of candidates. I too have used touchscreens for over two years and *never* seen de-syncing.
"Another voter who went Democrat across the board kept finding Republicans listed in the summary screen."
"often amplified if the user isn't that technically savvy.", eserteric
"One voter needed assistance from an election official, and even then, needed three tries to convince the machine that he wanted to vote for Democrat Jim Davis"
was Re:Not *too* shocking
it's all lies I tell ya, all lies put about by left-wing liberal, pro al-Qa'ida communists ..
None of these software firewalls are of any use as they can be disabled by the next exploit. What is needed is a firewall running on standalone embedded hardware. Of course with the use of RPC over HTTP and SOAP, a firewall is of limited use in this day and age.
You're doing it again, making up your own quotes. I make no such point
"I dont get that. The only common factor is that you both hate the president"
You're doing it again, making up your own quotes. I make no such point. I don't really want to engage with a professional troll but since when did opposing presidential legisgation make for a bush hater.
"waving around an Iraqi propaganda story isnt going to sway many people."
Haa haaaaa haaaaaaa. Point me to the text of "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" that mentions Irag.
"And yes there is no mention of Katrina. There is also no mention of Bush taking over the country."
Some believe this legislation bares an uncanny similarity to Martial Law. But there is mention of the President arbitrary suspending peoples rights. How is this any different than declaring Martial Law, which is what this is really about. Bt invoking Sadam, Iraq and president haters you're just engaging in another form of shit throwing.
The President may employ the armed forces .. the President determines .. the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity ..
The President shall notify Congress of the determination to exercise the authority in subsection (a)(1)(A) as soon as practicable after the determination and every 14 days thereafter during the duration of the exercise of that authority.".'
was Re:Text of the section
Does it mention the 'Insurrection Act' what does the bill say in regard to the President suspending personal rights. Does Public Law 109-364 give the President power to .. take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities. Yes or No. How is this different that declaring martial law. Could you point us to a working link so as we can judge for ourselves.
:", RenderSeven
"The referred article seems to have been posted originally on Saddam Hussein's supporter's website. It doesn't make it wrong of course but it doesn't lend to credibility or unbiased reporting
The US was a one time fan of Hussein back when he was a low level assassin working for the CIA. Here's a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with him.
"Reads to me more of a response to Katrina. Remember Katrina? Thats where we blamed the FEDERAL government for not sending in the state national guard when they had no authority to do it", RenderSeven
There is no mention of Katrina in the cited article
was The Bill Doesnt Say This At All (Score:5, Black Ops)
"They have migrated less than 200 work stations. Can we wait till the project actually approaches completion before deciding upon its success", ffs
"By the end of the year, some 200 workstations close to Lord Mayor Christian Ude and a number of nearby organizational units will be running on a special LiMux client."
"The base client mainly runs on the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 distribution and uses Desktop KDE 3.5 and OpenOffice 2."
'Furthermore, the City Council aims to use Linux to become politically "independent of monopolists like Microsoft."'
"The largest share of that budget -- 38 percent -- is set aside for training courses, but apparently these courses do not have to be as intensive as initially feared."
"After a decision was made in 2003 to migrate to Linux, a number of obstacles had to be overcome over the past three years, causing months of delays. Two years ago, the administration temporarily mothballed the project so it could clear up software patent issues,"
Full steam ahead for Linux in Munich
was ffs (Score:-5, negativity)
"Blue Pill is the prototype resulting from a security study made by Joanna Rutkowska, which took advantage of new virtualization capabilities of AMD processors (known as SVM and previously as Pacifica) to inject a rootkit in a running Vista operating system"
q uasi-illiterate.html">undetectably" compromises your chain-loaded host. Recall with me the fundamental theorem of VT/SVM: "VT and SVM make nothing possible that was not possible before."
When people have to resort to abuse to support their argument it makes me suspect that they are trying to distract from the facts. Adams don't actually debunk blue-pill, he calls the research quasi illiterate gibberish and accuses the researcher of attention-whoring, what ever that is. Nothing in the two cited articles provides any actual technical information as to why the injection technique wouldn't work.
"The non-exploit consists of a boot-loaded VT/SVM hypervisor that "http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2006/08/blue-pill-is-
But one of the alleged benefits of VM was total isolation of the client OSs. If a VM machine can't protect a client OS from malicious processes then what is it for. Answer me that one and name calling don't count as a valid response.
key words: attention-whoring, quasi-illiterate gibberish, Re: "Blue Pill" is quasi-illiterate gibberish.
".. integrated real-time anti-phishing functionality .. RSS .. Simple List Extensions .. "QuickTabs,".. OpenSearch, .. shrink-to-fit printing .."
I do recall hearing of RSS previously. Of these, which have been copied by the Firefox team and what are they called. Were such feetures around in similar form before IE7 or does the Firefox team posess a time machine. I do recall hearing of RSS previously.
"In Windows Vista with Protected Mode, IE7 is the first browser to "put itself into a sandbox" and run with low privileges."
It may be the first browser in Windows land but Browsers have been running in protected mode on Linux for years.
"during the IE7 beta process, you've seen other browser vendors copy some of these features"
Like who and when specifically? In the same interview he mentions an address bar spoof, so I guess the real-time anti-phishing functionality is still a little buggy.
Couldn't a group of Oracle users form a support group and distribute upgrades for free. It's not as if Larry has any objection to stealing software.
Why would anyone buy it from someone who resells it when it's free download?
For the support contracts. Would Oracle have the right to stop supplying me updates if I were to start providing Oracle support contracts.
Surly killing someone is depriving them of the right to free speech.
"? you are exercising the right to free speech by posting this.
They can't send out a warrent for rs232, can't they? For a new article on slashdot how about posting on how many people have been fired/jailed for posting on a blog/website.
'you accuse us of being warlike, intolerant and un-peacefull, in that case we must kill you', signed Abd-AL-Latif
i'm not sure how this is relevent either.
It's a joke, People have been killed for accusing Islam as being intollerent, ask Solomon Rushdie. It's like those animal rights activists who want peacefull coexistance with small furry creatures only to threaten anyone who don't agree with violence. I'm myself am a a fundemental pacifist and anyone who don't agree with me is going to be put up against a wall and machine-gunned to death
Oh s***, I just read up on this and the fella who shot Pim Fortuyn is a Fundementalist Islamist Animal Rights Activist. When's the next shuttle going to take off as I don't think this planet is safe anymore.
"just about as liberal as it gets when it comes to free speech - you are allowed to say anything you want about a group, but you are never allowed to call for violence"
But you are allowed to shoot someone as long as the gun manufacturers get imdemnified againsd being sued by the surviving relatives.
You do have freedom of speech, just as long as you don't exercise it. Now that the commie label can't be used to demonize whole groups, it's saving us from the terr'rists that's the pretext. Now y'all don't go accusing me of being in cahoots with people who think like the following.
'you accuse us of being warlike, intolerant and un-peacefull, in that case we must kill you', signed Abd-AL-Latif
Here's some people exercising their right to free speech.
Lawyer gets locked up for defending client.
Nurse gets fined for bumper sticker.
Librarian served with lifetime gag order.
was Re:greater or lesser evil
"There's some buzz moving around the blogosphere that speculates on whether the left-leaning ideology behind one of the most popular search sites on the Internet may be tainting their ability to provide unbiased results"
Does trying to not be evil make you a commie, nowadays. So presumably commentaters like yourself hold the oppposite view, lets do evil while making money.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
Google is a business. The revenue the company generates is derived from offering its search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on Google and on other sites across the web.
was Re:Censorship is not uncommon from Google.
"The vendors aren't offering indemnification, Ellison said, and because of SCO, there's all this uncertainty and doubt about intellectual property. He says he will offer indemnification. In the Q&A at the end, he was asked if Oracle was planning to buy SCO to bring that uncertainty to an end. No, was the answer.
"Red Hat has a separate indemnification policy. In Red Hat's case, this policy is called the Open Source Assurance program."
Presumably if Larry really believed the SCO case had any validity he wouldn't even consider using RHEL. And in relation to RHEL and the GPL what's stopping anyone buying a single copy of Oracle Linux and repackage it and selling it with support contracts. Presumably if Larry doesn't allow this then Oracle is in breach of the license.
"We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software"
"The system is implemented in IE7 by turning the address green for sites holding a extended validation certificate"
Any bets on how soon will someone come up with a piece of code that turns the address green on bogus sites. Any security device that relies on the user having to do something or in this case not doing something, is bound to fail. How about a cert built into the DNS system that way when the browser queries a domain name the DNS server returns an 'invalid' code and nothing pops up in the browser. I here by put this in the public domain.
"Callan puts Mozilla's apparent heel-dragging on the new security technology down to the character of its development community"
fud injection: the inneficient Open Source process as compared to the professional commercial product.
"Firms will have to stump up about 150 per cent of what they currently do for an SSL certificate."
How about you get fined each time a phishing site is registered with Verisign.
was Extended Validation SSL, More Secure or Just a Racket?
"A better question: Are you aware that no matter what answers you give here, they will never satisfy the anti-Microsoft Slashdot crowd?"
Why do you assume that pro Open Source equates with anti-Microsoft
was Re:CSS
What do you make of all this anti Open Source pro-Microsoft digital jihadism?
was Re:Microsoft jisallim aklak
A question for Dean Hachamovitch: What feetures did the Firefox developers borrow from IE7.
What's changed in CSS specs for IE7 since August?
Has this been previously reported on slashdot?
What is your time limit on when infornation gets expired?
was Re:Old News
"we don't have to deal with unreasonable licensing nonsense .. If somebody wants to take BSD code, modify it and not release those changes, then so be it"
There is nothing in the GPL that prevents you doing the same. You are not compelled to release your own changes. Why not use the Lesser GPL and you can still release your apps without the source code.
"I'd be very happy if Microsoft were to use more BSD code in their products. Doing so would result in a vast increase in the quality of their codebase"
Given that most of the protocols used in their codebase are covered by IP protection you would be in a worse position as costs would have to go back up the pyramed to Microsoft.
was Re:There's always BSD.
All this because Stallman is opposed to DRM restrictions being included in the GPL.
.. a lesser-known programmer--infamously more obstinate and far more eccentric .. anticorporate crusader .. band of anarchist acolytes .. anticapitalist bent .. a new crusade .. radical group .. socialist crusade .. so reviles .. .. putsch ..
..
.. Orwellian doublespeak .. Stallmanites ..
..
.. hard-core followers .. a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission ..
..
.. Linux zealots have already decided that the case is worthless and that SCO's .. complaint should have been tossed out ages ago"
"Software radical Richard Stallman
"A cantankerous and finger-wagging freewheeler, Stallman won't comment on any of this because he was upset by a previous story written by this writer
"is corpulent and slovenly, with long, scraggly hair, strands of which he has been known to pluck out and toss into a bowl of soup he is eating. His own Web site says Stallman engages in what he calls "rhinophytophilia"--"nasal sex"
".. Stallman's enforcers, such as his sidekick and attorney, Columbia Law School professor Eben Moglen
"ActiveGrid, an open-source software maker in San Francisco, originally planned to distribute its program under a gpl license but changed plans after a big European bank declared it wouldn't use products covered by the gpl, says Peter Yared, chief executive of ActiveGrid."
What is the name of the bank. Provide a citation to any statements of the bank regarding the GPL.
".. Stallman's suicide-bomber move
Some previous quotes from Lyons on Open Source
"For months, in secret, the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs, has been making threats to Cisco Systems"
"Could SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM actually have merit?
"Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group"
"Maryland's security team then leaked the code to external people and used the incident to claim that Diebold's security is awful..."
There is no actual proof that it happened this way. References to labels and 'documents' don't connect these disks with Maryland. It could have happened anywhere along the chain. It isn't the first time Diebold software has leaked.
"A team led by Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, examined the machines' source code, which a Diebold worker anonymously published on the Internet earlier this year"
"The FTP button gave total access to anonymous users, allowing anyone to download and apparently, upload to the server. The FTP site contained no copyright statement, asked for no user name, put locks on no directories. Visitors from anywhere in the world could simply walk in the front door."
"Last week's revelation by Diebold that its automated teller machines (ATMs) operated by two financial services customers were struck by the W32/Nachi worm"