While Caldera is certainly entitled to license the proprietary parts of their distribution as they see fit, I don't think this is a particularly good move, business-wise.
One of the selling points of Linux that is easy to communicate to business people is that it saves on license compliance costs. This is a non-trivial point, when you are talking about a large organization with hundreds or thousands of workstations/servers.
By introducing per-system licensing into the Linux world, Caldera muddies the waters somewhat on this point.
They could have accomplished the same thing, but worded it differently (i.e., "support serial numbers"), while preserving the "less licensing hassles" image of Linux.
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It ignores the fact that many of the harshest critics of the tax cut wanted to see the money put into paying down the debt, not more government programs.
Regardless, you can return your refund for precisely that:
Make check payable to the "Bureau of the Public Debt"
In the memo section of the check, make sure you write "Gift to reduce the Debt Held by the Public "
Mail check to -
ATTN DEPT G
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
P O BOX 2188
PARKERSBURG, WV 26106-2188
...that is, if you really mean it, and aren't just blustering.
Me, I've got better things to spend my refund on, like brewing equipment.:-)
The question will be irrelevant, as soon as LEO satellite service comes into being (2005-2008). At that time, it won't matter where you are. Unless you live in a tunnel.:-/
Starband is $69/month. Plus, you have to buy the equipment. That's expensive, but only because the bandwidth is not really all that impressive, from what I've read, and the latency is awful.
They need to sweeten the pot. If I could get a static IP, and no restrictions on running a web/mail server, I'd be willing to pay it.
I went in with Konqueror, after setting the User Agent for.gateway.gov.uk to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)" and it seems to work fine, except that when I bring up the security dialog, the certificate authority is unknown.
They probably don't want to try to explain to the average user how to update their browser to recognize their CA.
7. As for IBM open sourcing the WorkPlace Shell, forget it. Parts of WPS are owned by Microsoft, as parts of OLE are owned by IBM. IBM can't open it up due to contractual obligations (We saw the same argument when Ralph Nader asked IBM to open up the source of OS/2 in the antitrust trial).
Are you sure about this? I don't doubt that parts of the Presentation Manager are owned by Microsoft, but the Workplace Shell? Remember, that was built on SOM, and didn't come along until 2.0 (1991).
It's possible that SOM was contaminated with Microsoft stuff, but if so, why did Microsoft junk SOM for COM?
The fact that you made no mention of Nixon starting it
This year, I will propose a Drug Control Act to provide stricter penalties for those who traffic in LSD and other dangerous drugs with our people.
I will ask for more vigorous enforcement of all of our drug laws by increasing the number of Federal drug and narcotics control officials by more than 30 percent. The time has come to stop the sale of slavery to the young. I also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant United States attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws. We have increased our judiciary by 40 percent and we have increased our prosecutors by 16 percent. The dockets are full of cases because we don't have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them. We start these young lawyers at $8,200 a year. And the docket is clogged because we don't have authority to hire more of them.
I ask the Congress for authority to hire 100 more. These young men will give special attention to this drug abuse, too.
I'll close by pointing out that it was my favorite tech company that finally _really_ brought Unix to the desktop, while Slashdot's pick turned out a slow, bloated Explorer knockoff, and fired half their workers the day they finished it...
Bologna.
KDE finally brought UNIX to the desktop. GNOME quickly followed.
Heck, there's probably more KDE users than there are Mac OS X users.
One of the small-market stations I sometimes listen to has the following notice up:
Do to recent issues regarding additional talent fees for playing radio commercials over the internet, we have been forced to temporarily disable audio streaming of WNAX AM and FM. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to find a solution as quickly as possible so we can resume our webcast.
(They misspelled "due", not me.:-))
So, in their case, it has nothing to do with their air talents, who are not likely to be AFTRA members, but with the talents on commercials that they air.
OK...that's just stupid, and indicates an extortion scheme. Does anyone disagree? I hope not.
The union only represents major- to medium-market stations, AFAIK. I worked in small-market radio for several years, and was never an AFTRA member.
Kinda revealing to me about the true nature of the union. Instead of representing the people who (arguably) need representation the most, it concentrates on people who are likely to be able to provide the most dues (salaries in major markets are *much* higher).
It says *right there* in what you quoted that "there never was any counterclaim against anyone but FR." That means that there was only a counterclaim against FR. Then, it talks about that counterclaim against FR.
You have misrepresented the site. Not that a prayer thread is really anything to be embarassed by anyhow.
There are seemingly endless threads all the time where people debate drug legalization; I'd hardly characterize the often bitter arguments as "monocultural."
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What about blacks, women, or Mexicans? Any enlightening thoughts on any of those groups?
Every country has its faults.
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- has horrible latency
- has an upload cap
- does not provide static IP addresses
- is overpriced
Some of this may change with the introduction of LEO systems, but that is still several years off in the future.It's a good technology, but, unfortunately, it won't have a large market.
There are more of us that still need a viable broadband solution than you suspect.
One of the selling points of Linux that is easy to communicate to business people is that it saves on license compliance costs. This is a non-trivial point, when you are talking about a large organization with hundreds or thousands of workstations/servers.
By introducing per-system licensing into the Linux world, Caldera muddies the waters somewhat on this point.
They could have accomplished the same thing, but worded it differently (i.e., "support serial numbers"), while preserving the "less licensing hassles" image of Linux.
Regardless, you can return your refund for precisely that:
Me, I've got better things to spend my refund on, like brewing equipment. :-)
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The question will be irrelevant, as soon as LEO satellite service comes into being (2005-2008). At that time, it won't matter where you are. Unless you live in a tunnel. :-/
They need to sweeten the pot. If I could get a static IP, and no restrictions on running a web/mail server, I'd be willing to pay it.
There's still a lot of people like me, that don't have any reasonable broadband options.
The only thing I can get is GEO satellite, and the latency on that is awful.
So, I'm still dialing up.
Why don't you tell us?
A friend and I just brewed a batch of Scottish Ale, and I don't recall wasting a great deal of water.
I'd go so far as to say that water not used for making beer is a waste.
They probably don't want to try to explain to the average user how to update their browser to recognize their CA.
IMAP is now in KMail in the current KDE 2.2 alpha.
Are you sure about this? I don't doubt that parts of the Presentation Manager are owned by Microsoft, but the Workplace Shell? Remember, that was built on SOM, and didn't come along until 2.0 (1991).
It's possible that SOM was contaminated with Microsoft stuff, but if so, why did Microsoft junk SOM for COM?
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
What features does Postgres have that Interbase lacks? Just curious.
Just FYI.
Bologna.
KDE finally brought UNIX to the desktop. GNOME quickly followed.
Heck, there's probably more KDE users than there are Mac OS X users.
(They misspelled "due", not me. :-))
So, in their case, it has nothing to do with their air talents, who are not likely to be AFTRA members, but with the talents on commercials that they air.
OK...that's just stupid, and indicates an extortion scheme. Does anyone disagree? I hope not.
oops.
Kinda revealing to me about the true nature of the union. Instead of representing the people who (arguably) need representation the most, it concentrates on people who are likely to be able to provide the most dues (salaries in major markets are *much* higher).
It says *right there* in what you quoted that "there never was any counterclaim against anyone but FR." That means that there was only a counterclaim against FR. Then, it talks about that counterclaim against FR.
You have misrepresented the site. Not that a prayer thread is really anything to be embarassed by anyhow.
There are seemingly endless threads all the time where people debate drug legalization; I'd hardly characterize the often bitter arguments as "monocultural."
Hmmm...I hadn't heard that there was a War on Chocolate.
Learn something new every day.
Is it continuing to improve KDE and GNOME?
Or some server tool (maybe an Exchange server clone)?
Or is there nothing that urgently needs to improve?