There's somebody out there who HASN'T read the books??? I figure it would take over 30 hours to tell the whole story, so you're always going to be missing something if you haven't read the books.
"Last year, only 2 people were quoted in the press as saying I'm an asshole. This year over 500 people have said so! See, I'm becoming more relevant every day!" Or maybe it's just more obvious that you're an asshole...
SCO is pointing out a serious flaw in our legal system, that our IP laws give assholes too much ability to be disruptive, and thus do not promote the common good. He's doing us a favor, in much the same way the Caligula appointing his horse as a member of the Roman Senate demonstrated that investing too much power in an Emperor was a bad idea. Hmm, Caligula... now there's an apt analogy for explaining Darl McBride!
Darl, you are threatening the livelihoods of the vast majority of tech industry workers. You've blatently attempted to extort money from every company running Linux on any desktop or server, on every company selling a product based on embedded Linux, and even from the Federal government itself... and now you can't understand why nobody seems to like you anymore?
Not as much greater driver sport as you think. Hardware manufacturers will only write drivers for the latest cards (the ones that they are still selling) for any operating system. It would still be up to the OSS community to provide support for every piece of hardware the manufacturers are no longer making money off of. This is one of the most annoying things about windows -- by and large it requires new drivers for each major release, but hardware manufactures have zero incentive to rewrite the drivers for their old hardware. As a result, you're virtually forced to buy new hardware and peripherals to run the latest version of Windows!
Read this, then tell me again how "their new fabs are all being built in other countries not the USA". Oh, I get it - you consider Oregon to be a different country???
Absolutely; they're building fabs in Germany, Ireland, etc. The point was: they're NOT building any new fabs in the famed "silcon valley"!!! I wonder why not?
"Two companies, and that's all! Ok, three companies, since Mandrake is a derivative of Red Hat, but that's all! Ok, four companies, since all of China uses Red Flag... alright five companies, I forgot about Debian, but no more..."
He who writes the code chooses the license, Agreed, as long as the license tells me up front that it's going to spy on me. Any bets that this software doesn't?
Use IP Masq or NAT, install all your software as owned by "Bill Gates, Microsoft", and use randomly assigned software MAC Addresses. Then, when you get that message, just say "Who, me?"
Sex with a minor is ALSO a crime... does that mean we should post a policeman in every school room and daycare center, on the off chance that somebody MIGHT be breaking this law?
Just to eliminate the legal liability, can't you figure out what ports this is using to "phone home" and block those at the firewall? Can somebody please do a network trace on this and publish the info?
You have no expectation of privacy when you're walking down a public street. They've had cameras on the streetlight posts in the "prositution and drug free" zones in Seattle for years. And they appear to work -- if you're doing something you don't want the police observing, you go elsewhere.
As far as trying it again, the big breakthrough in AI has been right around the corner for 40 years now. Probably the big breakthrough in face recognition will be right around the corner for as long or longer. Don't like it? Try wearing a hat, sunglasses, and fake beard everytime you go out in public.
If the criminals beleive it works, then it accomplishes the purpose. Case in point: the luggage screening systems flags over 35% of baggage as "potentially containing explosives". Do you really think they thouroughly hand-search every one of those? Does it matter, as long as the terrorists THINK it will detect all explosives, and never bother attemping to plant them?
Actually, they stood around the water cooler and talked to their coworkers. Now, I've worked with people that refuse to go to lunch with others... "No thanks, I'm eating in my cubicle today." And surfing the web, no doubt.
Right here on my corporate-installed Windows XP desktop, I have all the standard XP games. Why??? Do they send an email to my boss every time I run one of them? Sounds like entrapment to me...
Usally, what happens is somebody you fired gets pissed off and calls the BSA. You then lose several man-weeks of productivity bending over for the BSA auditors, whether you're guilty or not. I'm not sure what happens if you tell the BSA auditors to get the hell off your property -- do they come back with machine guns? They're a private corporation -- what right do they have to force you to do anything?
Actually they come from India, which has no taxes at all.
Gee, then the $5 billion FAB Intel just built in Hillsboro, Oregon must just be sitting empty! Seems like an awful waste, seeing as how they're doing ALL there production in India now! I beleive all Pentium design is now all done in Oregon; the chips themselves are manufactured at various plants around the world. Intel is still operation
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. When the only experience you have is an MSCE, every application looks like an application for M$ software.
Even if the software is perfect, it is STILL subject to Denial Of Service if it's running on the same subnet as compromised boxes generating more traffic than the network can handle. The solution here is that as a rule there should ALWAYS be a firewall between critical systems and Micro$oft systems... and the cost of that firewall should be figured in to the TCO of the Micro$oft systems!
Employees don't always do only what they're are "allowed" to do. Witness the story of the network admin called into a 3com board meeting to explain why the Wireless network wasn't working. He finally tracked it down to a rogue Apple Airport hub in Eric Benham (the company founder's) office. Seems he brought it in from home...
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eventually there will be a[nother] tech revolution... in China.
Same reason everybody else uses embedded Linux instead of BSD: more widely available driver and protocol support.
Come on, you've gotta respect any institution where the median score on the entrance exams is a perfect score (for math, anyway).
There's somebody out there who HASN'T read the books??? I figure it would take over 30 hours to tell the whole story, so you're always going to be missing something if you haven't read the books.
I still think he's lying about the "like" part... will all those customers who actually like SCO's Unix products please post a reply? Thank you.
"Last year, only 2 people were quoted in the press as saying I'm an asshole. This year over 500 people have said so! See, I'm becoming more relevant every day!" Or maybe it's just more obvious that you're an asshole...
SCO is pointing out a serious flaw in our legal system, that our IP laws give assholes too much ability to be disruptive, and thus do not promote the common good. He's doing us a favor, in much the same way the Caligula appointing his horse as a member of the Roman Senate demonstrated that investing too much power in an Emperor was a bad idea. Hmm, Caligula... now there's an apt analogy for explaining Darl McBride!
Darl, you are threatening the livelihoods of the vast majority of tech industry workers. You've blatently attempted to extort money from every company running Linux on any desktop or server, on every company selling a product based on embedded Linux, and even from the Federal government itself... and now you can't understand why nobody seems to like you anymore?
Not as much greater driver sport as you think. Hardware manufacturers will only write drivers for the latest cards (the ones that they are still selling) for any operating system. It would still be up to the OSS community to provide support for every piece of hardware the manufacturers are no longer making money off of. This is one of the most annoying things about windows -- by and large it requires new drivers for each major release, but hardware manufactures have zero incentive to rewrite the drivers for their old hardware. As a result, you're virtually forced to buy new hardware and peripherals to run the latest version of Windows!
Read this, then tell me again how "their new fabs are all being built in other countries not the USA". Oh, I get it - you consider Oregon to be a different country???
Absolutely; they're building fabs in Germany, Ireland, etc. The point was: they're NOT building any new fabs in the famed "silcon valley"!!! I wonder why not?
Sounds like a bad comedy routine, doesn't it?
He who writes the code chooses the license, Agreed, as long as the license tells me up front that it's going to spy on me. Any bets that this software doesn't?
Use IP Masq or NAT, install all your software as owned by "Bill Gates, Microsoft", and use randomly assigned software MAC Addresses. Then, when you get that message, just say "Who, me?"
Sex with a minor is ALSO a crime... does that mean we should post a policeman in every school room and daycare center, on the off chance that somebody MIGHT be breaking this law?
Just to eliminate the legal liability, can't you figure out what ports this is using to "phone home" and block those at the firewall? Can somebody please do a network trace on this and publish the info?
As far as trying it again, the big breakthrough in AI has been right around the corner for 40 years now. Probably the big breakthrough in face recognition will be right around the corner for as long or longer. Don't like it? Try wearing a hat, sunglasses, and fake beard everytime you go out in public.
If the criminals beleive it works, then it accomplishes the purpose. Case in point: the luggage screening systems flags over 35% of baggage as "potentially containing explosives". Do you really think they thouroughly hand-search every one of those? Does it matter, as long as the terrorists THINK it will detect all explosives, and never bother attemping to plant them?
Actually, they stood around the water cooler and talked to their coworkers. Now, I've worked with people that refuse to go to lunch with others... "No thanks, I'm eating in my cubicle today." And surfing the web, no doubt.
Right here on my corporate-installed Windows XP desktop, I have all the standard XP games. Why??? Do they send an email to my boss every time I run one of them? Sounds like entrapment to me...
Usally, what happens is somebody you fired gets pissed off and calls the BSA. You then lose several man-weeks of productivity bending over for the BSA auditors, whether you're guilty or not. I'm not sure what happens if you tell the BSA auditors to get the hell off your property -- do they come back with machine guns? They're a private corporation -- what right do they have to force you to do anything?
Gee, then the $5 billion FAB Intel just built in Hillsboro, Oregon must just be sitting empty! Seems like an awful waste, seeing as how they're doing ALL there production in India now! I beleive all Pentium design is now all done in Oregon; the chips themselves are manufactured at various plants around the world. Intel is still operation
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. When the only experience you have is an MSCE, every application looks like an application for M$ software.
Even if the software is perfect, it is STILL subject to Denial Of Service if it's running on the same subnet as compromised boxes generating more traffic than the network can handle. The solution here is that as a rule there should ALWAYS be a firewall between critical systems and Micro$oft systems... and the cost of that firewall should be figured in to the TCO of the Micro$oft systems!
Employees don't always do only what they're are "allowed" to do. Witness the story of the network admin called into a 3com board meeting to explain why the Wireless network wasn't working. He finally tracked it down to a rogue Apple Airport hub in Eric Benham (the company founder's) office. Seems he brought it in from home...