For this to have any merit, the alleged infringing code would have to have been submitted by an IBM employee/contractor who also had access to the AIX source base. IBM knows which employees have had such access and contributed to the kernel, so it would not be hard to contact them (If they have not been contacted already)
Additionally, SCO should have to prove that they did not copy any Linux code into their sourcebase
Although I believe this is a big win, I am not sure it was for the right reasons. It appears that the jury did not believe elcomsoft *willfully* violate the DMCA, but questions of jurisdiction and even applicability were not sufficiently answered, IMHO.
Hopefully, with more rulings like this we can postpone the seemingly inevitable trip to the re-education camps.....
As someone who has worked with blades, my first question is what they do about heat... Sure the CPU's may run a little cooler, but at that density, what keeps it from melting???
If your bank is using MS - Sue Them! It's *your* data that's at risk.
I think the only way to get the point across is to go out and file proactive lawsuits. If enough people start suing banks/financial institutions/medical institutions over MS privacy issues, then it will become too expensive to continue to use(or, more likely, MS will change the EULA. Perhaps it is this sort of issue that would make EULA's illegal...)
About the only thing (that I know of) that commonly uses a floppy anymore is for BIOS updates. There are alot of motherboards that have floppy boot routines hard coded for just this reason.
Unless They are paying people to actually download and listen to each file, how can they verify that the metallica file that appears on someones system is a "copyright infringing" mp3? They would have to be very careful, otherwise it will backfire and end up in a class action lawsuit. If you think about it though, this could work to the advantage of keeping the RIAA expending resources to catch the "little people", and ending up pissing off prominant people because their kids were swapping mp3's....
>Problem is, you need to develop Self-Aware Machines first. And for that, you need Advanced Spaceflight and Digital Sentience. We've
>still got a bit of work to go on both of those fronts. (Hell, we don't even have industrial nanorobotics or the mind/machine interface yet...)
But then you could just nerve-staple the bastards!;-)
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Remember the scope of the lawsuit however.
For this to have any merit, the alleged infringing code would have to have been submitted by an IBM employee/contractor who also had access to the AIX source base. IBM knows which employees have had such access and contributed to the kernel, so it would not be hard to contact them (If they have not been contacted already)
Additionally, SCO should have to prove that they did not copy any Linux code into their sourcebase
Although I believe this is a big win, I am not sure it was for the right reasons. It appears that the jury did not believe elcomsoft *willfully* violate the DMCA, but questions of jurisdiction and even applicability were not sufficiently answered, IMHO.
Hopefully, with more rulings like this we can postpone the seemingly inevitable trip to the re-education camps.....
As someone who has worked with blades, my first question is what they do about heat... Sure the CPU's may run a little cooler, but at that density, what keeps it from melting???
If your bank is using MS - Sue Them! It's *your* data that's at risk.
I think the only way to get the point across is to go out and file proactive lawsuits. If enough people start suing banks/financial institutions/medical institutions over MS privacy issues, then it will become too expensive to continue to use(or, more likely, MS will change the EULA. Perhaps it is this sort of issue that would make EULA's illegal...)
Does anyone else see the irony of a slashbot posting this on an article about bot patents?????
About the only thing (that I know of) that commonly uses a floppy anymore is for BIOS updates. There are alot of motherboards that have floppy boot routines hard coded for just this reason.
Unless They are paying people to actually download and listen to each file, how can they verify that the metallica file that appears on someones system is a "copyright infringing" mp3? They would have to be very careful, otherwise it will backfire and end up in a class action lawsuit.
If you think about it though, this could work to the advantage of keeping the RIAA expending resources to catch the "little people", and ending up pissing off prominant people because their kids were swapping mp3's....
I believe in one of his author's notes, he explains that Xanth is a trilogy, but he was never very good with math......
I have noticed that you often include your experiences into your novels. Does this mean we can expect Tux to appear in a future Xanth novel?
>"The Self-Aware Colony", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
;-)
>Problem is, you need to develop Self-Aware Machines first. And for that, you need Advanced Spaceflight and Digital Sentience. We've
>still got a bit of work to go on both of those fronts. (Hell, we don't even have industrial nanorobotics or the mind/machine interface yet...)
But then you could just nerve-staple the bastards!