I am currently using Vmware server to run Linux guest under a Windows host. Last time I tried VirtualBox, it had trouble installing Ubuntu. And it did not support SMP at that time.
Ubuntu problems may have been solved since then, but SMP support is still missing.
Cost of Internet connectivity isn't much of an excuse anymore. I know in Pakistan, you can get an unlimited 1Mbps DSL connection for $12/month. A 2Mbps cable modem connection, again unlimited use, is $20/month.
Pakistan is just as far if not further away from Europe and the US. And they have a lazy ass and corrupt govt. to boot. If they can provide inexpensive and unlimited Internet access to their population then anyone can.
On a similar note, I (Linus Torvalds) have revoked the GPL license for my code in the Linux kernel, effective immediately. If you are selling Linux, you are required to destroy all copies of unsold software and contact all your past customers and get back the copies you sold them and destroy those as well. I you are running workstation or servers even in critical enviroments, you are required to immediately turn off the power to these systems and destroy the hard drive on them. If you are selling or have sold systems with Linux embedded in them (e.g. Linksys routers and Tivos etc) you are required to destroy all unsold systems and re-acquire all systems sold in the past and destroy those too. If you have a Tivo or a Linux based router or other Linux based embedded systems at home, you are required to immediately power these off and destroy them. Please keep ample evidence of the destruction of this property so that you are properly able to defend yourself in court at a later time.
Apple shareholders have been raking it in. The stock is up about 28x in the last 4.5 years. If you had invested $50K in April of 2003 you'd be sitting on $1.43M today. A shareholder suing Apple for losing money? Maybe they meant that they didn't make all the money they could have if had not sold out early. What an ungrateful bunch!
I am a Verizon FIOS customer of their 5/5 service in Portland,Oregon and pay $209/month for it. I wouldn't mind being able to get the 20/20 service in my area. When is Verizon going to show us some love? Verizon reps if you are reading this, the FIOS customer base in the rest of the country is really feeling unloved right now.
The NY/NJ/CT customers already had the higher 10/10 service available and you went and upped them to 20/20. While the rest of the country is stuck with pokey (relatively speaking) 5/5.
My core 2 Duo based laptop with 2 GBs of RAM eats 18 watts with *screen turned on*!
Laptops are really really cheap these days. I bought an Acer laptop for a family member, brand new from CompUSA, last month for $350 (It has an Intel CPU I forget which one). It will probably run circles around this thing and costs about the same (once you include the $40 shipping cost on fit PC) and consumes little additional power.
Search, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, Picasa...
Google has several interesting and best of breed web based applications. Not all of their products are going to be the best at what they do. This should hardly be news to anybody.
This reminds me of SCO's tactics: "We have run out of business ideas, we cant seem to be able to make any money, we are headed straight for bankruptcy. Lets sue somebody big."
And then later: "Oh wait we shouldn't have. Bankruptcy would have been so much better than the mess we are in now"
Litigation as a business strategy isn't a good idea. You could get lucky like NTP in NTP Vs. RIMM. However the odds are not very good.
I am pretty sure that Transmeta approached Intel and asked them to take out licenses on said patents and Intel took a look and said "No Thanks". Now Transmeta is suing Intel. Sour grapes. Its a good thing Linus doesn't work for them anymore.
I first bought my domains from GoDaddy.com a while back because they were cheap. Then they started bringing in the ads and web interface started getting really annoying. I then found out about 1and1.com. They are cheaper than Godaddy for domains and just about everything else. Their web interface is cleaner. No annoying ads that I encountered. They dont nickel and dime you on small stuff. For example Godaddy charges you extra if you want to hide your registration information from the spammers. Not so with 1and1.com.
I am much happier with 1and1.com.
I do still have a few domains left with Godaddy. I will now hurry up and switch them over. Teaming up with Microsoft and making press releases about their switch away from Linux will cost them some business. May not be much but I'll do my part.
A couple of months ago I was faced with the problem of needing to host multiple domains on one system. I initially considered Xen for my virtual servers need. However when I learned that this solution would not share the memory (each Vserver would have to have its dedicated memory) I decided to try out Linux Vserver. I have been a happy user of Linux Vserver since then.
With Linux Vserver you only run one kernel on your system where with Xen each virtual server runs its own kernel. This presents some limitations for Linux Vserver. For example the guest virtual servers cannot have the network loopback interface lo. But almost all of these I could live without.
Now if I want to start adding more virtual servers I can, without having to worry about running out of memory.
1. It is fast. Very fast. Firefox is dog slow in comparison. At least on my Linux system. 2. It is lean, very lean. 4.7MB and tonnes of features. How do these people do it? 3. It is easy on memory. Firefox has bad memory leak problems. Earlier today Firefox was taking up 300MB+ on my system. I close all tabs and it did not free any memory. Enough is enough. This is the primary reason I am ditching Firefox. 4. The keyboard shortcuts are sane and there are lots of them. 5. It is more standards compliant than Firefox. 6. It now works with maps.google.com. 7. Did I already mention that it was fast?
I am on a Verizon fiber Internet (FIOS) service. This is what traceroute to Google looks like from my side:
traceroute to www.google.com (66.102.7.147), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.966 ms 0.986 ms 0.980 ms 2 L5000.FTTP-03.PTLDOR.verizon-gni.net (71.245.97.1) 5.401 ms 4.808 ms 6.009 ms 3 P2-1.LCR-01.PTLDOR.verizon-gni.net (130.81.32.156) 5.140 ms 5.450 ms 5.820 ms 4 so-6-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.SJC80.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.133) 29.300 ms 31.672 ms 30.724 ms 5 so-6-1-0-0.gar2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.79.54.1) 28.852 ms 40.849 ms 35.692 ms 6 ae-22-52.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.48) 32.510 ms ae-12-53.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.80) 30.30 0 ms ae-12-55.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.144) 28.855 ms 7 4.79.42.254 (4.79.42.254) 29.640 ms 29.758 ms unknown.Level3.net (209.247.202.218) 29.921 ms 8 66.249.94.227 (66.249.94.227) 30.211 ms 216.239.47.146 (216.239.47.146) 35.863 ms 34.250 ms 9 216.239.49.142 (216.239.49.142) 33.698 ms 33.776 ms 216.239.49.146 (216.239.49.146) 34.859 ms 10 66.102.7.147 (66.102.7.147) 31.259 ms 29.311 ms 30.283 ms
Not all that good. Verizon should be paying Google to peer with them.
Comcast on the other hand is much worse. They are in competition with Verizon and think that more hops means better service to the customer. With us you get more... hops.
traceroute to www.google.com (64.233.161.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 c-24-20-142-117.hsd1.or.comcast.net (24.20.142.117) 2.617 ms 2.664 ms 2.886 ms 2 * * * 3 68.87.219.133 (68.87.219.133) 26.454 ms 31.650 ms 33.212 ms 4 68.87.216.49 (68.87.216.49) 34.742 ms 37.772 ms 40.525 ms 5 68.87.216.29 (68.87.216.29) 44.156 ms 49.472 ms 55.187 ms 6 12.119.199.21 (12.119.199.21) 60.021 ms 62.400 ms 69.163 ms 7 12.123.44.150 (12.123.44.150) 72.673 ms 76.058 ms 78.470 ms 8 12.122.84.37 (12.122.84.37) 16.749 ms 18.746 ms 19.864 ms 9 att-gw.sea.sprint.net (192.205.32.174) 22.942 ms 23.584 ms 18.205 ms 10 sl-bb20-tac-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.61) 27.672 ms 31.712 ms 34.730 ms 11 sl-bb23-tac-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.17.174) 35.246 ms 38.528 ms 43.706 ms 12 sl-bb22-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.8) 64.023 ms 64.608 ms 65.639 ms 13 sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.210) 67.465 ms 69.990 ms 70.980 ms 14 sl-st20-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.63) 75.647 ms 79.377 ms 78.890 ms 15 sl-googl1-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.242.66) 124.142 ms 109.289 ms 96.300 ms 16 72.14.236.3 (72.14.236.3) 117.764 ms 121.834 ms 122.435 ms 17 216.239.46.45 (216.239.46.45) 123.431 ms 66.249.95.247 (66.249.95.247) 125.590 ms 129.033 ms 18 66.249.95.247 (66.249.95.247) 122.436 ms 125.494 ms 127.827 ms 19 66.249.94.232 (66.249.94.232) 155.248 ms 158.072 ms 159.191 ms 20 66.249.95.122 (66.249.95.122) 153.621 ms 72.14.238.234 (72.14.238.234) 154.355 ms 155.866 ms 21 72.1
I have bought their mp3 player, speakers, webcams and a few other items. It is clear to me that they really make very bad products. I have already settled on never buying another Creative product.
This latest patent scam merely affirms my beliefs.
Nautilus. It is brain-dead. Ever try accessing a WebDav folder with Nautilus? Lets just say it puts up a fight. And then after the fight when I thought I had won, I found out that the beast would not let me edit.txt files on the webdav folder. It would let me copy from and copy to there but not let me edit the files right there. Ugh.
And when I told it to always open.txt files with gvim editor, did it listen as expected? Not at all.
Formatted the Fedora Core 4 hard drive and installed Suse 10 and never looked back. Nautilus is Konqueror's bitch. And Suse kicks Redhat's ass. And I had been using Redhat for over 10 years.
And now I hear about Suse getting comfy with Gnome? Nooooooooooooooo. Gnome is a piece of trash!
IBM stole its own code and put it in Linux. Now they owe us money for doing this.
"The numerosity and substantiality of the disclosures reflects the pervasive extent and sustained degree as to which IBM disclosed methods, concepts, and in many places, literal code, from Unix-derived technologies..."
The last part "Unix-derived technologies" is where they give it away. According to their "understanding" if IBM wrote any code for IBM's AIX (based on sys V) that code became toxic the moment it touched the AIX system. All hope is lost for IBM to wish their own code as they please from that point on.
Most of you probably do not remember him. He fraudulently registered the Linux trademark in 1996 and asked people to pay for use of the name "Linux".
Many of you now seem to think the name Linux does not need to be protected. You either have short memory or are too young to know what battles Linus had to fight to get here.
Most of you are free-loaders anyway. Interested only in what you are getting for free and contributing nothing back. Most of you given half the chance would have really cashed out on Linux, unlike Linus Torvalds.
It used to be that I would learn some really insightful on a subject every now and then. But lately it seems that Slashdot has been mobbed by clueless individuals, including the editors.
If Linus needed to cash in on Linux he would pick trademark? Clueless morons!
And most of you probably dont remember when someone back in 1996 registered Linux as their trademark in the US and started asking companies to pay 25% of their revenues.
How do you protect the name Linux from such thieves? It costs a lot of money to do this on a global scale. Not everything in life is free.
I love the free wifi service at PDX. Its fast and it is everywhere at the airport. Could the Bostonians please ask the Portland people how they did it?
Maybe technology and security is not the problem, but greed is?
There are too many businesses benefitting from the "terror threat". It would seem to me that they would benefit somewhat from the threat not going away. People can easily be convinced to pay more for everyday stuff in exchange for "security" from terrorists.
Come to think of it, some politicians too have recently used the terrorists to their advantage. They claim to have special talents for fighting terrorism. <sarcasm> Evidenced by recent global decline in terrorism. </sarcasm>
>> Novell also mentions they rejected NewSCO's invitation to join in the SCOSource initiative because it sounded like a scheme. I think Novell is now hoping discovery will reveal evidence that NewSCO approached Sun and MS with the same scheme offer prior to launching their war against Linux.
This is actually a very good find. I am kicking myself for not seeing this earlier. It finally makes sense.
SCO tried to get Novell to join the Linux FUD scam. Novell had not bought Suse yet so they were not in the Linux game per se. They refused anyway. Then SCO and MS "conveniently" decided to buy some licences from SCO.
I can understand MS pulling these stunts. Teaming up with SCO to kill the penguin. But Sun getting in on the game? Sun has been trying so very hard to portray itself as a friend of opensource and Linux. McNealy even donned a penguin outfit and hopped around on the stage.
Little did we know that he was paying others to stab the penguin in the back at the same time.
All of a sudden I have a new found hate for Sun.
I hope Novell makes you pay a very high price for these shenanigans.
I now must buy a Novell Suse box and start recommending it to others.
For falsely claiming SUN and MS revenus among other things Darl and gang face prison terms in addition to fines.
From Groklaw:
CEOs and CFOs of listed companies (like SCOX) face ten years in jail and $1m fines for a mistake in their reporting. Twenty years and $5m if it's a "willful" mistake.
See sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: here's the relevant bit of s.906:
(c) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.--Whoever-- (1) certifies any statement as set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section knowing that the periodic report accompanying the statement does not comport with all the requirements set forth in this section shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; or (2) willfully certifies any statement as set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section knowing that the periodic report accompanying the statement does not comport with all the requirements set forth in this section shall be fined not more than $5,000,000, or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
As others have already mentioned, one of the many interesting things that came out in this filing was that SCO asked Novell to go in on the scam. Novell called it "scheme". Novell declined and SCO marched on.
It will be interesting to see how SCO management avoids jail time.
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I am currently using Vmware server to run Linux guest under a Windows host. Last time I tried VirtualBox, it had trouble installing Ubuntu. And it did not support SMP at that time.
Ubuntu problems may have been solved since then, but SMP support is still missing.
The free Vmware had neither of these issues.
Cost of Internet connectivity isn't much of an excuse anymore. I know in Pakistan, you can get an unlimited 1Mbps DSL connection for $12/month. A 2Mbps cable modem connection, again unlimited use, is $20/month.
Pakistan is just as far if not further away from Europe and the US. And they have a lazy ass and corrupt govt. to boot. If they can provide inexpensive and unlimited Internet access to their population then anyone can.
On a similar note, I (Linus Torvalds) have revoked the GPL license for my code in the Linux kernel, effective immediately. If you are selling Linux, you are required to destroy all copies of unsold software and contact all your past customers and get back the copies you sold them and destroy those as well. I you are running workstation or servers even in critical enviroments, you are required to immediately turn off the power to these systems and destroy the hard drive on them. If you are selling or have sold systems with Linux embedded in them (e.g. Linksys routers and Tivos etc) you are required to destroy all unsold systems and re-acquire all systems sold in the past and destroy those too. If you have a Tivo or a Linux based router or other Linux based embedded systems at home, you are required to immediately power these off and destroy them. Please keep ample evidence of the destruction of this property so that you are properly able to defend yourself in court at a later time.
Thanks and God bless America.
America #1.
-Linus
Apple shareholders have been raking it in. The stock is up about 28x in the last 4.5 years. If you had invested $50K in April of 2003 you'd be sitting on $1.43M today. A shareholder suing Apple for losing money? Maybe they meant that they didn't make all the money they could have if had not sold out early. What an ungrateful bunch!
I am a Verizon FIOS customer of their 5/5 service in Portland,Oregon and pay $209/month for it. I wouldn't mind being able to get the 20/20 service in my area. When is Verizon going to show us some love? Verizon reps if you are reading this, the FIOS customer base in the rest of the country is really feeling unloved right now.
The NY/NJ/CT customers already had the higher 10/10 service available and you went and upped them to 20/20. While the rest of the country is stuck with pokey (relatively speaking) 5/5.
My core 2 Duo based laptop with 2 GBs of RAM eats 18 watts with *screen turned on*!
Laptops are really really cheap these days. I bought an Acer laptop for a family member, brand new from CompUSA, last month for $350 (It has an Intel CPU I forget which one). It will probably run circles around this thing and costs about the same (once you include the $40 shipping cost on fit PC) and consumes little additional power.
What is the point of this fit PC again?
Does it exist for playback and/or editing?
Search, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, Picasa
Google has several interesting and best of breed web based applications. Not all of their products are going to be the best at what they do. This should hardly be news to anybody.
This reminds me of SCO's tactics: "We have run out of business ideas, we cant seem to be able to make any money, we are headed straight for bankruptcy. Lets sue somebody big."
And then later: "Oh wait we shouldn't have. Bankruptcy would have been so much better than the mess we are in now"
Litigation as a business strategy isn't a good idea. You could get lucky like NTP in NTP Vs. RIMM. However the odds are not very good.
I am pretty sure that Transmeta approached Intel and asked them to take out licenses on said patents and Intel took a look and said "No Thanks". Now Transmeta is suing Intel. Sour grapes. Its a good thing Linus doesn't work for them anymore.
I first bought my domains from GoDaddy.com a while back because they were cheap. Then they started bringing in the ads and web interface started getting really annoying. I then found out about 1and1.com. They are cheaper than Godaddy for domains and just about everything else. Their web interface is cleaner. No annoying ads that I encountered. They dont nickel and dime you on small stuff. For example Godaddy charges you extra if you want to hide your registration information from the spammers. Not so with 1and1.com.
I am much happier with 1and1.com.
I do still have a few domains left with Godaddy. I will now hurry up and switch them over. Teaming up with Microsoft and making press releases about their switch away from Linux will cost them some business. May not be much but I'll do my part.
A couple of months ago I was faced with the problem of needing to host multiple domains on one system. I initially considered Xen for my virtual servers need. However when I learned that this solution would not share the memory (each Vserver would have to have its dedicated memory) I decided to try out Linux Vserver. I have been a happy user of Linux Vserver since then.
With Linux Vserver you only run one kernel on your system where with Xen each virtual server runs its own kernel. This presents some limitations for Linux Vserver. For example the guest virtual servers cannot have the network loopback interface lo. But almost all of these I could live without.
Now if I want to start adding more virtual servers I can, without having to worry about running out of memory.
1. It is fast. Very fast. Firefox is dog slow in comparison. At least on my Linux system.
2. It is lean, very lean. 4.7MB and tonnes of features. How do these people do it?
3. It is easy on memory. Firefox has bad memory leak problems. Earlier today Firefox was taking up 300MB+ on my system. I close all tabs and it did not free any memory. Enough is enough. This is the primary reason I am ditching Firefox.
4. The keyboard shortcuts are sane and there are lots of them.
5. It is more standards compliant than Firefox.
6. It now works with maps.google.com.
7. Did I already mention that it was fast?
I am on a Verizon fiber Internet (FIOS) service. This is what traceroute to Google looks like from my side:
... hops.
traceroute to www.google.com (66.102.7.147), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.966 ms 0.986 ms 0.980 ms
2 L5000.FTTP-03.PTLDOR.verizon-gni.net (71.245.97.1) 5.401 ms 4.808 ms 6.009 ms
3 P2-1.LCR-01.PTLDOR.verizon-gni.net (130.81.32.156) 5.140 ms 5.450 ms 5.820 ms
4 so-6-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.SJC80.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.133) 29.300 ms 31.672 ms 30.724 ms
5 so-6-1-0-0.gar2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.79.54.1) 28.852 ms 40.849 ms 35.692 ms
6 ae-22-52.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.48) 32.510 ms ae-12-53.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.80) 30.30 0 ms ae-12-55.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.123.144) 28.855 ms
7 4.79.42.254 (4.79.42.254) 29.640 ms 29.758 ms unknown.Level3.net (209.247.202.218) 29.921 ms
8 66.249.94.227 (66.249.94.227) 30.211 ms 216.239.47.146 (216.239.47.146) 35.863 ms 34.250 ms
9 216.239.49.142 (216.239.49.142) 33.698 ms 33.776 ms 216.239.49.146 (216.239.49.146) 34.859 ms
10 66.102.7.147 (66.102.7.147) 31.259 ms 29.311 ms 30.283 ms
Not all that good. Verizon should be paying Google to peer with them.
Comcast on the other hand is much worse. They are in competition with Verizon and think that more hops means better service to the customer. With us you get more
traceroute to www.google.com (64.233.161.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 c-24-20-142-117.hsd1.or.comcast.net (24.20.142.117) 2.617 ms 2.664 ms 2.886 ms
2 * * *
3 68.87.219.133 (68.87.219.133) 26.454 ms 31.650 ms 33.212 ms
4 68.87.216.49 (68.87.216.49) 34.742 ms 37.772 ms 40.525 ms
5 68.87.216.29 (68.87.216.29) 44.156 ms 49.472 ms 55.187 ms
6 12.119.199.21 (12.119.199.21) 60.021 ms 62.400 ms 69.163 ms
7 12.123.44.150 (12.123.44.150) 72.673 ms 76.058 ms 78.470 ms
8 12.122.84.37 (12.122.84.37) 16.749 ms 18.746 ms 19.864 ms
9 att-gw.sea.sprint.net (192.205.32.174) 22.942 ms 23.584 ms 18.205 ms
10 sl-bb20-tac-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.61) 27.672 ms 31.712 ms 34.730 ms
11 sl-bb23-tac-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.17.174) 35.246 ms 38.528 ms 43.706 ms
12 sl-bb22-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.8) 64.023 ms 64.608 ms 65.639 ms
13 sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.210) 67.465 ms 69.990 ms 70.980 ms
14 sl-st20-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.63) 75.647 ms 79.377 ms 78.890 ms
15 sl-googl1-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.242.66) 124.142 ms 109.289 ms 96.300 ms
16 72.14.236.3 (72.14.236.3) 117.764 ms 121.834 ms 122.435 ms
17 216.239.46.45 (216.239.46.45) 123.431 ms 66.249.95.247 (66.249.95.247) 125.590 ms 129.033 ms
18 66.249.95.247 (66.249.95.247) 122.436 ms 125.494 ms 127.827 ms
19 66.249.94.232 (66.249.94.232) 155.248 ms 158.072 ms 159.191 ms
20 66.249.95.122 (66.249.95.122) 153.621 ms 72.14.238.234 (72.14.238.234) 154.355 ms 155.866 ms
21 72.1
I have bought their mp3 player, speakers, webcams and a few other items. It is clear to
me that they really make very bad products. I have already settled on never buying
another Creative product.
This latest patent scam merely affirms my beliefs.
Nautilus. It is brain-dead. Ever try accessing a WebDav folder with Nautilus? Lets just say it puts up a fight. And then after the fight when I thought I had won, I found out that the beast would not let me edit
And when I told it to always open
Formatted the Fedora Core 4 hard drive and installed Suse 10 and never looked back. Nautilus is Konqueror's bitch. And Suse kicks Redhat's ass. And I had been using Redhat for over 10 years.
And now I hear about Suse getting comfy with Gnome? Nooooooooooooooo. Gnome is a piece of trash!
"The numerosity and substantiality of the disclosures reflects the pervasive extent and sustained degree as to which IBM disclosed methods, concepts, and in many places, literal code, from Unix-derived technologies ..."
The last part "Unix-derived technologies" is where they give it away. According to their "understanding" if IBM wrote any code for IBM's AIX (based on sys V) that code became toxic the moment it touched the AIX system. All hope is lost for IBM to wish their own code as they please from that point on.
It is quite obvious to me and many others that Frobes and Daniel Lyons are trolling for ad impressions.
Please do not give them the satisfaction. By going and visiting their site you are only encouraging them.
Many people have tried to reason with Daniel Lyons. It is obvious to most people that he does not listen to reason.
So please, pretty please. With cherry on top. Let us all ignore Forbes and Daniel Lyons and his kind. Thanks.
It may not have the fancy Javascripted front-end but it is certainly loaded with useful features for groups of people working together.
Contacts, Calendar, Email, File repository using WebDav (Files are version controlled) and more.
Most of you probably do not remember him. He fraudulently registered the Linux trademark in 1996 and asked people to pay for use of the name "Linux".
Many of you now seem to think the name Linux does not need to be protected. You either have short memory or are too young to know what battles Linus had to fight to get here.
Most of you are free-loaders anyway. Interested only in what you are getting for free and contributing nothing back. Most of you given half the chance would have really cashed out on Linux, unlike Linus Torvalds.
See: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2425 for some of the history.
It used to be that I would learn some really insightful on a subject every now and then. But lately it seems that Slashdot has been mobbed by clueless individuals, including the editors.
If Linus needed to cash in on Linux he would pick trademark? Clueless morons!
And most of you probably dont remember when someone back in 1996 registered Linux as their trademark in the US and started asking companies to pay 25% of their revenues.
How do you protect the name Linux from such thieves? It costs a lot of money to do this on a global scale. Not everything in life is free.
I love the free wifi service at PDX. Its fast and it is everywhere at the airport. Could the Bostonians please ask the Portland people how they did it?
Maybe technology and security is not the problem, but greed is?
There are too many businesses benefitting from the "terror threat". It would seem to me that they would benefit somewhat from the threat not going away. People can easily be convinced to pay more for everyday stuff in exchange for "security" from terrorists.
Come to think of it, some politicians too have recently used the terrorists to their advantage. They claim to have special talents for fighting terrorism. <sarcasm> Evidenced by recent global decline in terrorism. </sarcasm>
So you have to:
1. Get a land phone line.
2. Rent this software at $10/yr.
3. Leave a Windows computer always running at home.
So that you can pay a little more for international calls than you currently pay with a calling card.
Uh, no thanks!
Why do people come up with dumb dumb business ideas and actually follow through on them?
>> Novell also mentions they rejected NewSCO's invitation to join in the SCOSource initiative because it sounded like a scheme. I think Novell is now hoping discovery will reveal evidence that NewSCO approached Sun and MS with the same scheme offer prior to launching their war against Linux.
This is actually a very good find. I am kicking myself for not seeing this earlier. It finally makes sense.
SCO tried to get Novell to join the Linux FUD scam. Novell had not bought Suse yet so they were not in the Linux game per se. They refused anyway. Then SCO and MS "conveniently" decided to buy some licences from SCO.
I can understand MS pulling these stunts. Teaming up with SCO to kill the penguin. But Sun getting in on the game? Sun has been trying so very hard to portray itself as a friend of opensource and Linux. McNealy even donned a penguin outfit and hopped around on the stage.
Little did we know that he was paying others to stab the penguin in the back at the same time.
All of a sudden I have a new found hate for Sun.
I hope Novell makes you pay a very high price for these shenanigans.
I now must buy a Novell Suse box and start recommending it to others.
For falsely claiming SUN and MS revenus among other things Darl and gang face prison terms in addition to fines.
From Groklaw:
CEOs and CFOs of listed companies (like SCOX) face ten years in jail and $1m fines for a mistake in their reporting. Twenty years and $5m if it's a "willful" mistake.
See sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: here's the relevant bit of s.906:
(c) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.--Whoever--
(1) certifies any statement as set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section knowing that the periodic report accompanying the statement does not comport with all the requirements set forth in this section shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; or
(2) willfully certifies any statement as set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section knowing that the periodic report accompanying the statement does not comport with all the requirements set forth in this section shall be fined not more than $5,000,000, or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Novell Goes for SCO's Throat
As others have already mentioned, one of the many interesting things that came out in this filing was that SCO asked Novell to go in on the scam. Novell called it "scheme". Novell declined and SCO marched on.
It will be interesting to see how SCO management avoids jail time.