Many shops running SCO will be stuck with old binaries handed down from companies who have gone out of business
If I were one of those shops, I'd be scrambling to replace those binaries. They are SCO lawsuits ticking away like timebombs. Anything touched by any SCO code is a potential target for an SCO lawsuit. This is a FACT, as demonstrated by current SCO initiated lawsuits.
It almost seems that any SCO code in any form anywhere needs to be treated like a virus -- identified, quarantined, and deleted immediately.
What this may do (as I'm sure its meant to) is cause additional questions for shareholders.
Indeed, even for the insider shareholders who may not have been aware of this potential debt to Novell. Also, SCO will have to respond and give some attempt to explain, for the record, why Novell is not entitled to the $25 million. SCO will have to claim the licenses sold were not for anything covered by the APA, which will lead to questions regarding their earlier SEC filings; or SCO will have to layout a position that the APA is not valid in regard to the licenses sold to MS and Sun -- but the right to sell such licenses is one of the main pillars of SCO's multiple litigations.
So what is it, SCO-boys? Did you sell the licenses to MS and Sun without telling them that the licenses really weren't what you sold them as? Did you sell them and forget to pay Novell? Did you sell them claiming that the agreement making you authorized to sell them is invalid? Or, how about this one: Did MS and Sun buy these licenses knowing that they were not valid and knowing that the fees would be used for litigation and not for fulfilling contract obligations with Novell?
I wonder how many other people reading/. decided to go into technical fields because of Star Trek, or became engineers because of Scotty.
Me, for one. Even as a kid watching Star Trek re-runs (in the 70s), I could see that Kirk talked but Scotty the Engineer delivered. And he could make cool stuff, too. The lasting impression that James Doohan's character Scotty left upon me undoubtedly contributed to my becoming an Electrical Engineer.
You did not steer me wrong, Mr. Scott, and I thank you.
I'll just buy a $400 windows machine with Intel for the occasions I want to watch tv or a movie or listen to a new CD.
You've hit the nail on the head. Windows is quickly becoming a media os, useful only for (high-priced) entertainment. As Windows bloats and restricts, it becomes more useless for actual computing and business purposes. If you want a fancy TV/stereo system, use Windows. If you want a useful computer, use Linux.
Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
That's an easy one to answer: the heads of his corporate board members. It's hard to find such mathematically perfect flatness in available surfaces.
Now that's funny. Maybe they can put some of that new Fujitsu electronic paper on their heads to display their latest claims. It uses little power, so their ears won't smoke from constantly changing their story.
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Somebody modding out there hates the term Wronghorn.
Maybe I should call it MS Wronghorn for the Microsoft schills out there.
I would not underestimate Longhorn. It could be quite significant to Linux and Java both...
I agree. The introduction of Longhorn and the spectre of a forced system/company wide *upgrade* (--choke--)costing HUGE $$ will present a tremendous "window" of opportunity for Linux. If a company has to upgrade (as they have been forced to do every couple of years by MS) again, why not use this upgrade to break away from MS and switch to open source? If I were selling Linux/open-source systems, I'd be waiting to pounce the very day that Wronghorn ships.
New London's offering approximately 1/3 the market value of comparable but as yet uncondemned properties in the area. This amount is up from the approximately 1/6 the market value originally offered.
The value of taxes such as the estate tax and property taxes is that they force people to create real value, not just sit on their accreted wealth until something magic happens.
In other words, "What have you owned for me lately?"
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And what exactly did MS license from SCO?
Or do you think people who go to work at MS sign some kind of agreement that they cannot concurrently be involved in any kind of OSS development?
Of course not. The agreement they sign prohibits them from working on anything outside of Microsoft. Judge bars ex-Microsoft employee from working at Google
Now, some of the leading edge buinesses such as SCO are trying a whole new type business-- making and selling software.
I don't see how companies think they can make money this way.
You fail to see the "innovation" here. Now SCO can sue themselves and actually win a case!
Many shops running SCO will be stuck with old binaries handed down from companies who have gone out of business
If I were one of those shops, I'd be scrambling to replace those binaries. They are SCO lawsuits ticking away like timebombs. Anything touched by any SCO code is a potential target for an SCO lawsuit. This is a FACT, as demonstrated by current SCO initiated lawsuits.
It almost seems that any SCO code in any form anywhere needs to be treated like a virus -- identified, quarantined, and deleted immediately.
Also, who's going to buy anything from a company that's going to go bust in a year or two and get stuck without any customer support?
Or a company that will sue you for backing up your servers.
What this may do (as I'm sure its meant to) is cause additional questions for shareholders.
Indeed, even for the insider shareholders who may not have been aware of this potential debt to Novell. Also, SCO will have to respond and give some attempt to explain, for the record, why Novell is not entitled to the $25 million. SCO will have to claim the licenses sold were not for anything covered by the APA, which will lead to questions regarding their earlier SEC filings; or SCO will have to layout a position that the APA is not valid in regard to the licenses sold to MS and Sun -- but the right to sell such licenses is one of the main pillars of SCO's multiple litigations.
So what is it, SCO-boys? Did you sell the licenses to MS and Sun without telling them that the licenses really weren't what you sold them as? Did you sell them and forget to pay Novell? Did you sell them claiming that the agreement making you authorized to sell them is invalid? Or, how about this one: Did MS and Sun buy these licenses knowing that they were not valid and knowing that the fees would be used for litigation and not for fulfilling contract obligations with Novell?
does this mean I can't call it Wronghorn anymore?
Maybe it's the cars they make?
How is this flamebait? I wasn't referring to the Pinto (and it was a Ford, anyway.)
...well that and the insane amounts they have to spend on workers salaries and benefits when compared to the rest of the world.
Maybe it's the cars they make?
I certainly hope when _I_ get to be that age I am still "fully functional" and have opportunities to be so. --bold added
Scotty... was he an engineer or what!
So, we'd all be better off if you had never been born?
I wonder how many other people reading /. decided to go into technical fields because of Star Trek, or became engineers because of Scotty.
Me, for one. Even as a kid watching Star Trek re-runs (in the 70s), I could see that Kirk talked but Scotty the Engineer delivered. And he could make cool stuff, too. The lasting impression that James Doohan's character Scotty left upon me undoubtedly contributed to my becoming an Electrical Engineer.
You did not steer me wrong, Mr. Scott, and I thank you.
Goodbye, Mr. Scott.
I'll just buy a $400 windows machine with Intel for the occasions I want to watch tv or a movie or listen to a new CD.
You've hit the nail on the head. Windows is quickly becoming a media os, useful only for (high-priced) entertainment. As Windows bloats and restricts, it becomes more useless for actual computing and business purposes. If you want a fancy TV/stereo system, use Windows. If you want a useful computer, use Linux.
SCO is preparing to sue you guys. They claim to own the knot-tying copyrights. Just look at the way they've knotted up the courts!
You're not in engineering, are you.
Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
That's an easy one to answer: the heads of his corporate board members. It's hard to find such mathematically perfect flatness in available surfaces.
Now that's funny. Maybe they can put some of that new Fujitsu electronic paper on their heads to display their latest claims. It uses little power, so their ears won't smoke from constantly changing their story.
Somebody modding out there hates the term Wronghorn .
Maybe I should call it MS Wronghorn for the Microsoft schills out there.
I would not underestimate Longhorn. It could be quite significant to Linux and Java both...
I agree. The introduction of Longhorn and the spectre of a forced system/company wide *upgrade* (--choke--)costing HUGE $$ will present a tremendous "window" of opportunity for Linux. If a company has to upgrade (as they have been forced to do every couple of years by MS) again, why not use this upgrade to break away from MS and switch to open source? If I were selling Linux/open-source systems, I'd be waiting to pounce the very day that Wronghorn ships.
I still think it should be called Wronghorn
yada yada yada...
Tell it to the bulldozers.
I don't know about Nutscrape. I use Oprah!
100 of 115 property owners wanted to sell to the developers. 15 people were stopping it.
No, 15 owners out of 115 fought it. It costs a lot to litigate.
But, it's good to know that you support prayer in schools, restricting abortion, displaying the 10 commandments in public, and oppose gay marriage.
New London's offering approximately 1/3 the market value of comparable but as yet uncondemned properties in the area. This amount is up from the approximately 1/6 the market value originally offered.
Is that your idea of a good deal?
The value of taxes such as the estate tax and property taxes is that they force people to create real value, not just sit on their accreted wealth until something magic happens.
In other words, "What have you owned for me lately?"