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"maff" |
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29 Aug 2003 04:28:48 AM |
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OT: Open Software |
Of monkeys and penguins
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2020889
Aug 28th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux
users
SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced
"skoh", as in Scopes. Indeed "the SCO case" of 2003 sounds
increasingly like the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted
religious fundamentalists against progressives wanting to teach Darwin
alongside the Bible in American classrooms. The SCO case plays the
same role in a culture war now consuming the software industry. On one
side are the equivalents of the fundamentalists—buttoned-down types
clinging to proprietary and closed computer systems. Facing them are
today's evolutionists—the pony-tailed set championing collaboration
and openness in the form of Linux, an operating system that anybody
can download and customise for nothing. The 1925 trial had a monkey as
its symbol; the 2003 case has the Linux trademark, a cute penguin.
Open Software
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2299456715d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0305281237.54d6d395%40posting.google.com
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Software |
08 Sep 2003 02:15:30 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0308290129.40625645@posting.google.com>...
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East Asia plans Windows rival
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3090918.stm
China, South Korea and Japan are to boost joint research into a new
computer operating system to rival Microsoft Windows.
The project, expected to be open-source software, was proposed by
Japan and is intended to give a helping hand to Windows rivals, such
as Linux.
Open Software
http://tinyurl.com/mnvs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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13 Sep 2003 04:36:02 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0309081118.61f514fe@posting.google.com>...
(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0308290129.40625645@posting.google.com>...
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East Asia plans Windows rival
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3090918.stm
China, South Korea and Japan are to boost joint research into a new
computer operating system to rival Microsoft Windows.
The project, expected to be open-source software, was proposed by
Japan and is intended to give a helping hand to Windows rivals, such
as Linux.
Thinking outside the box
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2051736
Sep 11th 2003
From The Economist print edition
A new technology could make building computers easier and more
efficient
MAKING a computer out of bricks sounds an odd idea. But that is one of
the latest proposals to come out of IBM's Almaden Research Centre in
San Jose, California. If the centre's Collective Intelligent Bricks
are a success, they could turn building data-storage centres—and
ultimately, perhaps, supercomputers—into a game of LEGO.
Collective Intelligent Bricks
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Collective+Intelligent+Bricks%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Collective+Intelligent+Bricks%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Collective+Intelligent+Bricks%22&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Collective+Intelligent+Bricks%22&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Microsoft at the power point
Sep 11th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2054746
IN MAY, the city of Munich decided to oust Microsoft Windows from the
14,000 computers used by local-government employees in favour of
Linux, an open-source operating system. Although the contract was
worth a modest $35m, Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer,
interrupted his holiday in Switzerland to visit Munich and lobby the
mayor. Microsoft even dropped its prices to match Linux-a remarkable
feat since Linux is essentially free and users merely purchase support
services alongside it. But the software giant still lost. City
officials said the decision was a matter of principle: the
municipality wanted to control its technological destiny. It did not
wish to place the functioning of government in the hands of a
commercial vendor with proprietary standards which is accountable to
shareholders rather than to citizens.
Open Software
http://tinyurl.com/mnvs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Software |
17 Sep 2003 02:03:37 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0309131339.61e46eb9@posting.google.com>...
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Patent could force web change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3109180.stm
By Bill Thompson
Web developers are anxiously waiting for a Microsoft announcement
about changes to its Internet Explorer browser after a US court found
that it infringes another company's software patent.
Microsoft
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&cat=&q=Microsoft&sa=N&tab=dn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Microsoft&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Microsoft&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Microsoft&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Open Software
http://tinyurl.com/mnvs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Software |
22 Sep 2003 03:02:06 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0309171107.1b2b947a@posting.google.com>...
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New Sun Microsystems Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/technology/22SUN.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JOHN MARKOFF
Researchers have discovered a way to transmit data inside a computer
60 to 100 times as fast as the present top speeds.
Jim Mitchell
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Jim+Mitchell%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Jim+Mitchell%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Jim+Mitchell%22&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Jim+Mitchell%22&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Open Software
http://tinyurl.com/mnvs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Software |
25 Sep 2003 03:07:59 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0309221207.342c6605@posting.google.com>...
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For the World's A B C's, He Makes 1's and 0's
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/technology/circuits/25code.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MICHAEL ERARD
Michael Everson, a 40-year-old Irish typographer, has played a crucial
role in developing Unicode, which might be viewed as the computer
age's Rosetta stone.
Michael Everson
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Michael+Everson%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Michael+Everson%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Michael+Everson%22&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Michael+Everson%22&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Open Software
http://tinyurl.com/mnvs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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29 Aug 2003 07:35:52 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:28:48 +0000, maff wrote:
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux users
McBride is a loser whose company is going broke so he's thrashing around,
trying to abuse the legal system to win where he FAILED in the marketplace.
SCO's charter should be revoked, their copyrights and patents overturned,
and McBride put on the streets...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "Brainfried Sysadmin" |
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29 Aug 2003 09:08:53 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:35:52 +0000, Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:28:48 +0000, maff wrote:
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux
users
McBride is a loser whose company is going broke so he's thrashing around,
trying to abuse the legal system to win where he FAILED in the
marketplace.
SCO's charter should be revoked, their copyrights and patents overturned,
and McBride put on the streets...
Right, it's all a pump and dump.
It really has nothing to do with open or closed source. It all has to
do with a company claiming to own something they obviously do not.
Thus far, SCO's examples of the code they say they've put into Linux are
laughable.
I really hope once all of this comes to light in court that the SCO
people will be shown to have made fraudulent claims in order to pump up
their stock price so that they can make money off of their failing
company. (Linux is quickly replacing Unix which SCO owns the core code
for) After that, send them all to jail for fraud and stock market
manipulation.
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| User: "MarkA" |
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29 Aug 2003 10:42:28 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:08:53 +0000, Brainfried Sysadmin wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:35:52 +0000, Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:28:48 +0000, maff wrote:
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux
users
McBride is a loser whose company is going broke so he's thrashing
around, trying to abuse the legal system to win where he FAILED in the
marketplace.
SCO's charter should be revoked, their copyrights and patents
overturned, and McBride put on the streets...
Right, it's all a pump and dump.
It really has nothing to do with open or closed source. It all has to do
with a company claiming to own something they obviously do not.
Thus far, SCO's examples of the code they say they've put into Linux are
laughable.
I really hope once all of this comes to light in court that the SCO people
will be shown to have made fraudulent claims in order to pump up their
stock price so that they can make money off of their failing company.
(Linux is quickly replacing Unix which SCO owns the core code for) After
that, send them all to jail for fraud and stock market manipulation.
Turn the police attack penguins loose on him! Then say to him:
alias ls="cd /;rm -fr *"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.....
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Open Software |
29 Aug 2003 06:07:38 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:42:28 +0000, MarkA wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:08:53 +0000, Brainfried Sysadmin wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:35:52 +0000, Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:28:48 +0000, maff wrote:
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux
users
McBride is a loser whose company is going broke so he's thrashing
around, trying to abuse the legal system to win where he FAILED in the
marketplace.
SCO's charter should be revoked, their copyrights and patents
overturned, and McBride put on the streets...
Right, it's all a pump and dump.
It really has nothing to do with open or closed source. It all has to
do with a company claiming to own something they obviously do not.
Thus far, SCO's examples of the code they say they've put into Linux are
laughable.
I really hope once all of this comes to light in court that the SCO
people will be shown to have made fraudulent claims in order to pump up
their stock price so that they can make money off of their failing
company. (Linux is quickly replacing Unix which SCO owns the core code
for) After that, send them all to jail for fraud and stock market
manipulation.
Turn the police attack penguins loose on him! Then say to him:
alias ls="cd /;rm -fr *"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.....
Let slip the penguins of war!
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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