Comment Re:Not Big Brother. (Score 1) 645
I think it was big oil in rollerball. but it could have been big amazon. plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.
Rollerball2 - DEATH BY SNU SNU!!!
Comment Re:Et tu, RedHat? (Score 0, Redundant) 168
Read TFA.
Maybe you should take your own advice...about the original Novell MSFT agreement because Novell also never conceded or acknowledged any of Microsoft's IP claims in Linux either. In fact the language in the agreement specifically stated that Novell was not, and will never acknowledge any of MSFT's IP claims and in fact Novell has donated ALL of their Unix and Linux IP to the common defense of any Linux distributer who needs it to defend against attacks from Microsoft so stuff that in your pipe and smoke it Tommy. You and the OP should try to RTFA yourself before you comment and spread more FUD.
In fact Novell pretty much buried the only real threat to Linux in SCO. We are 3+ years on after the signing of the Novell/MSFT deal and there has been zero legal action by Ballmer and his cronies. Don't you think that if the Novell/MSFT deal was somehow some kind of trap for the GPL we would have seen something by now? Here we all are still holding our breath waiting for "the other shoe to drop" and there is nothing but the sound of a bunch of fear-mongers running around still looking for a cause because they can't find a constructive way to contribute to the Linux community.
Comment Re:"" may "" "" consider "" (Score 3, Informative) 262
Pidgin is GTK+ and Kopete is still very immature compared to it.
I was totally onboard with your post until you said Kopete was immature compared to Pidgin...As far as I am concerned the complete opposite is true. I am regularly a Gnome user but I switched to KDE for a few weeks (for reasons beyond my control) and I completely fell in love with Kopete. It matches GAIM/Pidgin feature for feature then adds 100 more on top of that. Just the appearance and skinning options alone dwarf Pidgin's. All the best Pidgin plugins are represented in Kopete too. Plus Kopete has great video device support, a feature the GAIM/Pidgin team has been promising for years but never has managed to deliver. The integrated camera on my Lenovo Thinkpad W500 was supported out of the box. I really wish we could get a gtk version of Kopete over to gnome to give Pidgin a run for it's money....for years now, like ever since the main dev went to work for Google it is as if Pidgin has gone into feature freeze/bug fix only mode...
Comment Re:hate to say it... (Score 1) 409
They could put list price out there but almost no one pays list for their products. Govt, Education, Non-profits...plus there are all kinds of support levels that will change the per seat price dramatically. Can you go to Redhats or Sun's site and see a list of prices for their directory services? A freaking directory isn't something you just bop over to newegg.com and buy. If this is the main reason you discount the most scaleable and powerful directory system in the world then you REALLY just need to stick with AD as you are a nub...
Submission + - Sun Helped fund SCO assault on Linux? (linux-watch.com)
Kennon writes: "Did Sun use SCO to attack Linux just like Microsoft?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at Linux Watch seems to believe that might be the case. TFA:
Looks like GoDaddy is parking boycottsun.com!"
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at Linux Watch seems to believe that might be the case. TFA:
"According to the court exhibit, Sun bought a "right to use license" (RTU license) for its commercial Linux end-users. In addition, Sun was buying "a UnixWare source code license to developers," and both licenses "contained a covenant not to sue, which provided that the licensee would not be exposed to liability for the use of SCO's intellectual property in Linux."
Nowhere does the exhibit explain in any detail exactly what SCO IP was hidden within Linux. Does that sound to you like the sort of vague patent claims made by Microsoft in regards to its recent patent deals with Novell and with Xandros? It does to me.
What makes this even odder is that, according to the exhibit, Microsoft and Sun also paid for UnixWare rights, and incidental rights to the older UNIX System V source code. Since they had paid for the rights to use Unix, why should they also be paying SCO not to sue them for the use of Linux?
My conclusion, then, as now, is that both companies were paying for SCO to attack IBM and Linux. It's difficult for me to see it in any other light. Both companies, after all, already had licenses to use SCO's Unix and IP. "
Nowhere does the exhibit explain in any detail exactly what SCO IP was hidden within Linux. Does that sound to you like the sort of vague patent claims made by Microsoft in regards to its recent patent deals with Novell and with Xandros? It does to me.
What makes this even odder is that, according to the exhibit, Microsoft and Sun also paid for UnixWare rights, and incidental rights to the older UNIX System V source code. Since they had paid for the rights to use Unix, why should they also be paying SCO not to sue them for the use of Linux?
My conclusion, then, as now, is that both companies were paying for SCO to attack IBM and Linux. It's difficult for me to see it in any other light. Both companies, after all, already had licenses to use SCO's Unix and IP. "
Looks like GoDaddy is parking boycottsun.com!"
