Maybe I can help you understand what the the first guy was "blathering" about.
If you use the word linux you must now pay for it. If you're the XYZ hosting company, you can't say in your ads "the XYZ hosting company uses Debian GNU/Linux servers" unless you pay this fee. If you're Computer Geek Consultants, you can't say "We provide the best Linux Consultants" without paying a fee.
This is worse than anything Micro$oft could dream up. I agree with the OP that this is a dark day in the history of linux. There's a post far above that is modded +2 funny -
> 1. Post a crappy kernel in Usenet and say it is
> free as in freedom
> 2. Wait until everybody uses it
> 3. Enforce trademarks
> 4. Proffit
Their spelling is about as poor as mine, but it's not a funny comment. It is the truth and should be modded insightful.
It was great while it lasted. I have already started moving our severs to FreeBSD. I can only hope this will be a smooth transistion and we can remove the word Linux from all of our company lit before Linus sicks his lawyers on us. Shame on Linus.
At first I thought you were kidding as the study said neither search engine will return more than 1000 results. However I tried it and got similar numbers.
I'm just shocked such an obvious lie could be published here on/. The authors of the study and the/. editors should both be ashmed. I hope Yahoo! takes action.
You also forgot that water vapor creates clouds which reflects the sun's energy back into space. Thus cooling the planet. So far the global warming crowd is looking to be as correct as the new ice age crowd in the 50's.
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I was going to convert our website from Windows IIS ASP to Linux/Apache/PHP. I had read all the hype and thought it would be a good move.
Oh boy it wasn't. I joined a list on php.net to help me figure out how to install. Almost all of the messages were about people asking to be removed from the list. Then I posted a question and was told I had to visit three different website in order to be able to submit it. After the third one the message was still not posted and my spam folder was growing fast even for gmail. I attempted to unsub using the directions at the bottom of some posts. It didn't work. So I contacted the list admin. After a few emails, he became belligerent and eventually claimed he had nothing to do with the list! I then went to php.net, but I read the fine print, that anything I sent to their address would be reposted on usenet for spammers to harvest my address.
So now my address is trapped on the spam list and my new gmail account is now full of spam (even with gmails filtering). I report each and every message now as spam. All I can say is that I'm lucky I didn't convert our production server yet, no telling what could be written in the PHP code. I have wiped the harddrive of the test box and reinstalled Windows IIS ASP. It is just amazing this spam harvesting scheme has come this far. Avoid the PHP spammers! Just say no to PHP.
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Maybe I can help you understand what the the first guy was "blathering" about.
If you use the word linux you must now pay for it. If you're the XYZ hosting company, you can't say in your ads "the XYZ hosting company uses Debian GNU/Linux servers" unless you pay this fee. If you're Computer Geek Consultants, you can't say "We provide the best Linux Consultants" without paying a fee.
This is worse than anything Micro$oft could dream up. I agree with the OP that this is a dark day in the history of linux. There's a post far above that is modded +2 funny -
> 1. Post a crappy kernel in Usenet and say it is
> free as in freedom
> 2. Wait until everybody uses it
> 3. Enforce trademarks
> 4. Proffit
Their spelling is about as poor as mine, but it's not a funny comment. It is the truth and should be modded insightful.
It was great while it lasted. I have already started moving our severs to FreeBSD. I can only hope this will be a smooth transistion and we can remove the word Linux from all of our company lit before Linus sicks his lawyers on us. Shame on Linus.
At first I thought you were kidding as the study said neither search engine will return more than 1000 results. However I tried it and got similar numbers.
/. The authors of the study and the /. editors should both be ashmed. I hope Yahoo! takes action.
I'm just shocked such an obvious lie could be published here on
You also forgot that water vapor creates clouds which reflects the sun's energy back into space. Thus cooling the planet. So far the global warming crowd is looking to be as correct as the new ice age crowd in the 50's.
I was going to convert our website from Windows IIS ASP to Linux/Apache/PHP. I had read all the hype and thought it would be a good move.
Oh boy it wasn't. I joined a list on php.net to help me figure out how to install. Almost all of the messages were about people asking to be removed from the list. Then I posted a question and was told I had to visit three different website in order to be able to submit it. After the third one the message was still not posted and my spam folder was growing fast even for gmail. I attempted to unsub using the directions at the bottom of some posts. It didn't work. So I contacted the list admin. After a few emails, he became belligerent and eventually claimed he had nothing to do with the list! I then went to php.net, but I read the fine print, that anything I sent to their address would be reposted on usenet for spammers to harvest my address.
So now my address is trapped on the spam list and my new gmail account is now full of spam (even with gmails filtering). I report each and every message now as spam. All I can say is that I'm lucky I didn't convert our production server yet, no telling what could be written in the PHP code. I have wiped the harddrive of the test box and reinstalled Windows IIS ASP. It is just amazing this spam harvesting scheme has come this far. Avoid the PHP spammers! Just say no to PHP.