The really scary thing is that she's a member of MENSA...
What we should really ask is: what has she done with all those brains? I mean, besides collecting awards and acting "Michael Jackson" weird? Where's her real output?
This article suggests that Lindows may have entered into an agreement with SCO that nullifies the lawsuit.
Here's an excerpt:
Lindows.com announced today that it has previously entered into an agreement through which SCO would provide Lindows with certain technology. According to Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows.com, this means that Lindows.com customers will not have to worry about SCO's ongoing attempts to "protect its IP." Interestingly enough, this may cause a much larger impact than Robertson bargained for.
June 1, 2004. Santa Cruz, CA: SCO threatens to sue yet more icons of goodness and decency
In yet another move calculated to antagonize virtually the entire world, SCO announced today that they would pursue multi-billion dollar lawsuits against basketball legend Michael Jordan, all kittens less than a year old, and Jesus Christ, for failure to pay royalties on all revenues that "might even conceivably be gained by exploiting our intellectual property in some fashion or another."
SCO CEO McBride, speaking from behind the door of a reinforced bunker in an undisclosed location, stated that although none of the parties have used UNIX or Linux as far as he is aware, the decision was made to pursue litigation anyway "for the hell of it. I mean, we're already suing fifty thousand parties as it is, from IBM to a rusty tricycle in Ai, Alabama. What's three more?"
The last year has not been good to SCO. Novell and IBM both filed $10 billion lawsuits against the company, and their stock was delisted after the share price dropped from $8.30 a share to about eight cents a share. This led SCO to file a series of bizarre lawsuits against figures in the Open Source and computing world, including Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman and Tux the Penguin.
Eventually, SCO ran out of people in the computing world and started targeting smaller, less fortunate users and groups, starting in early 2004 with a class of 12th graders in Portland, Oregon, for maintaining a Linux laboratory as a school project. Starting from there, they began to sue "everyone conceivable" who might have derived profit, use, or fun from Linux.
The public reaction has been overwhelmingly negative. Two months ago an unknown terrorist organization detonated an atomic bomb over SCO headquarters in Orem, UT, and then immediately received a pardon from US Attorney General John Ashcroft. Vigilantes and bounty hunters now scour the Rocky Mountains for company employees, who fetch rewards of $1000 to $1,000,000. SCO executives are featured every night on FOX's "America's Most Wanted." Last week, Time named McBride the Most Hated Man in America, beating out even Osama Bin Laden and Michael Bolton for the title.
"We're not discouraged," said McBride. "Eventually, the judge will see things our way and we'll start collecting royalties. And then the world will be MINE! ALL MINE!" McBride then broke out into hysterical laughter, which continued into the lonely night.
Novell can GPL the code and still collect licensing fees from companies that want to include their IP in their (proprietary, non-GPL-compatible) products.
Sure, Novell loses some licensing fees as Linux replaces some proprietary UNIXes. But they gain a whole ton of goodwill from the Linux community, and that makes it easier to generate sales.
Bingo. The difference is, when you deploy Microsoft technology, Microsoft practically owns the support business. When you deploy Red Hat (for example), there are other competitors that the customer can choose from, including IBM, to support their systems.
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I found this sentence rather interesting:
In 1998, the SCO company agreed to the publication of this book and everyone can now obtain it legally, for $29.95 (www.peer-to-peer.com).
There's a wide variety of very good creative commons music available, if you happen to like classical, folk, blues, etc. While the recordings are still under copyright, the music itself may be performed, recorded, borrowed, modified, etc. by anyone, royalty-free.
Part of the "advantage" of Microsoft's DRM is that the files will expire if you don't pay your bills. So you don't really own the songs. You're subscribing to a service, like cable.
This could be the combination that breaks the Microsoft desktop hegemony, if Sun and Redhat market it correctly toward that end.
Not in your lifetime. RH just isn't a good desktop distribution; Mandrake is much more polished and has fewer bugs. RH's real strength is in an enterprise envirionment. Similarly: Java is pretty weak for desktop apps (a survey of AWT, Swing and SWT should bear this out) but it's perfect for web interfaces and business logic.
The real fight is in the server world. Java + RedHat Linux is a winning combination, if they can get it right.
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I took the stories from the weblog, and I rewrote them. I think I've matured as a writer since they were first written, and I've rebuilt them. I had the technology to make them faster, better, stronger.
Sounds like you've earned your $6,000,000 advance.
If everyone uses free software, and nothing but free software...where do all the programmers go?
They'll go to shops in big business and government agencies, where they need enterprise-grade, custom-built applications to handle their business needs. This is 90% of the code that we're writing anyway.
Here in Texas, you can walk down the street with a loaded automatic rifle and so long as you legally own the gun, nobody can do anything about it
Same in Oregon, in theory. In practice, the police in most municipalities will arrest you for menacing and creating a public disturbance if you carry openly. Fortunately, this is a shall-issue state.
Oh, and it's legal to shoot a robber in the back as he flees from your house. So don't rob my place if you don't wanna get shot.
I donno man, legal or not, this still looks like murder to me.
Sorry, but to most gun owners a S&W gun is the most politicly incorrect thing you can own.
You'll get my scandium AirLite when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Anyway, I respectfully submit that you've got it mixed up. It's not that they were developing safety technologies, but that they accepted a consent decree to incorporate that technology in all guns as soon as it was 'marketable', where 'marketable' is determined by HUD. Gun owners saw a future of federally-mandated unreliable guns (except for older, 'dumb' guns) and reacted en masse.
If safety technologies were the problem, then Taurus would get the same treatment that S&W got before the company changed hands. The trick is, the safeties have to allow the owner to shoot the gun when necessary. There's no room for error or delay. Gun owners don't trust the feds to understand this, and this is why we jumped on S&W.
"We keep burying it and it keeps coming back to life, goddamnit, and it's multiplying. So we keep it in barrels on a toxic waste site. Don't let it bite you or you're dead."
(Ol' Lady Hopper musta exposed her language to Trioxin 2-4-5 by mistake.)
The law is not -1 redundant, unfortunately. There are several state agencies that can only aquire software from selected, approved vendors. If the vendor doesn't carry open source, you have to go proprietary.
This makes for a real pain in the ass when you have to get a solution in place now and you have a budget of $0 for aquiring the necessary software from the approved vendor. This, sadly, is the case in a lot of state agencies.
It makes perfect business sense. A lot of companies balk at Open Source because people in management don't want to have to assume responsibility for their technology.
The solution is rather obvious: when you propose an Open Source Software solution, you must also include the costs of paying someone else (such as IBM) to provide support.
"As you know, it is forbidden in SCO to tell a lie, and SCO is an honorable company, therefore you must believe me when I tell you that SCO is a leading producer of Linux and UNIX servers. Do not believe the scheming infidels of Red Hat! IBM lawyers are committing suicide on the courthouse steps. I tell you now that no SCO customer will ever switch over to Debian. Never!"
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Norton and McAffe can survive two ways:
It's going to be a rough ride, though. :(
The really scary thing is that she's a member of MENSA... What we should really ask is: what has she done with all those brains? I mean, besides collecting awards and acting "Michael Jackson" weird? Where's her real output?
Here's an excerpt:
Also, here's the original Lindows announcement.
You mean "$<0", right?
June 1, 2004. Santa Cruz, CA: SCO threatens to sue yet more icons of goodness and decency In yet another move calculated to antagonize virtually the entire world, SCO announced today that they would pursue multi-billion dollar lawsuits against basketball legend Michael Jordan, all kittens less than a year old, and Jesus Christ, for failure to pay royalties on all revenues that "might even conceivably be gained by exploiting our intellectual property in some fashion or another." SCO CEO McBride, speaking from behind the door of a reinforced bunker in an undisclosed location, stated that although none of the parties have used UNIX or Linux as far as he is aware, the decision was made to pursue litigation anyway "for the hell of it. I mean, we're already suing fifty thousand parties as it is, from IBM to a rusty tricycle in Ai, Alabama. What's three more?" The last year has not been good to SCO. Novell and IBM both filed $10 billion lawsuits against the company, and their stock was delisted after the share price dropped from $8.30 a share to about eight cents a share. This led SCO to file a series of bizarre lawsuits against figures in the Open Source and computing world, including Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman and Tux the Penguin. Eventually, SCO ran out of people in the computing world and started targeting smaller, less fortunate users and groups, starting in early 2004 with a class of 12th graders in Portland, Oregon, for maintaining a Linux laboratory as a school project. Starting from there, they began to sue "everyone conceivable" who might have derived profit, use, or fun from Linux. The public reaction has been overwhelmingly negative. Two months ago an unknown terrorist organization detonated an atomic bomb over SCO headquarters in Orem, UT, and then immediately received a pardon from US Attorney General John Ashcroft. Vigilantes and bounty hunters now scour the Rocky Mountains for company employees, who fetch rewards of $1000 to $1,000,000. SCO executives are featured every night on FOX's "America's Most Wanted." Last week, Time named McBride the Most Hated Man in America, beating out even Osama Bin Laden and Michael Bolton for the title. "We're not discouraged," said McBride. "Eventually, the judge will see things our way and we'll start collecting royalties. And then the world will be MINE! ALL MINE!" McBride then broke out into hysterical laughter, which continued into the lonely night.
Novell can GPL the code and still collect licensing fees from companies that want to include their IP in their (proprietary, non-GPL-compatible) products. Sure, Novell loses some licensing fees as Linux replaces some proprietary UNIXes. But they gain a whole ton of goodwill from the Linux community, and that makes it easier to generate sales.
Bingo. The difference is, when you deploy Microsoft technology, Microsoft practically owns the support business. When you deploy Red Hat (for example), there are other competitors that the customer can choose from, including IBM, to support their systems.
In 1998, the SCO company agreed to the publication of this book and everyone can now obtain it legally, for $29.95 (www.peer-to-peer.com).
There's a wide variety of very good creative commons music available, if you happen to like classical, folk, blues, etc. While the recordings are still under copyright, the music itself may be performed, recorded, borrowed, modified, etc. by anyone, royalty-free.
Part of the "advantage" of Microsoft's DRM is that the files will expire if you don't pay your bills. So you don't really own the songs. You're subscribing to a service, like cable.
By 1960s standards, it meets this criterion. By modern standards, it's pretty arcane in comparison to Java or Python.
They're the ones doing this work, out of a lab in Oregon.
Not in your lifetime. RH just isn't a good desktop distribution; Mandrake is much more polished and has fewer bugs. RH's real strength is in an enterprise envirionment. Similarly: Java is pretty weak for desktop apps (a survey of AWT, Swing and SWT should bear this out) but it's perfect for web interfaces and business logic.
The real fight is in the server world. Java + RedHat Linux is a winning combination, if they can get it right.
Sounds like you've earned your $6,000,000 advance.
They'll go to shops in big business and government agencies, where they need enterprise-grade, custom-built applications to handle their business needs. This is 90% of the code that we're writing anyway.
Same in Oregon, in theory. In practice, the police in most municipalities will arrest you for menacing and creating a public disturbance if you carry openly. Fortunately, this is a shall-issue state. Oh, and it's legal to shoot a robber in the back as he flees from your house. So don't rob my place if you don't wanna get shot.
I donno man, legal or not, this still looks like murder to me.
You'll get my scandium AirLite when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Anyway, I respectfully submit that you've got it mixed up. It's not that they were developing safety technologies, but that they accepted a consent decree to incorporate that technology in all guns as soon as it was 'marketable', where 'marketable' is determined by HUD. Gun owners saw a future of federally-mandated unreliable guns (except for older, 'dumb' guns) and reacted en masse.
If safety technologies were the problem, then Taurus would get the same treatment that S&W got before the company changed hands. The trick is, the safeties have to allow the owner to shoot the gun when necessary. There's no room for error or delay. Gun owners don't trust the feds to understand this, and this is why we jumped on S&W.
"We keep burying it and it keeps coming back to life, goddamnit, and it's multiplying. So we keep it in barrels on a toxic waste site. Don't let it bite you or you're dead."
(Ol' Lady Hopper musta exposed her language to Trioxin 2-4-5 by mistake.)
They cancelled funding for a project he was working on. That looks like censure to me.
Depends. If the project is my life's work, I might resign and find another source of funding.
You terrorist!
This makes for a real pain in the ass when you have to get a solution in place now and you have a budget of $0 for aquiring the necessary software from the approved vendor. This, sadly, is the case in a lot of state agencies.
The solution is rather obvious: when you propose an Open Source Software solution, you must also include the costs of paying someone else (such as IBM) to provide support.
You're right, this is too easy.
I'm thinking that should be attributed to Aiwass, not AC. Just a small nitpick.