[Boundless]

Is this more of O'Gara's so-called journalism?

Groklaw's take on it is at:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050115131942494

You'll need to ignore the intertwined death-spiral
debate about Santa Claus :-)

[konaice]

It should be pointed out that when challenged to point out the code that violates any of these 228 patents, Balmer subsequently backed down, and did not point out a single line of code.

Its easy to claim that Linux, or even a lug nut might be subject to law suits, because one can sue over anything, or nothing at all. One needs no proof to bring a suit, merely a lawyer with too much time on its hands. (And yes, I did mean to say "its" and not his...).

On the other hand, the amount of stolen UNIX code in Windows has recently been proven to be much larger than previously thought, when source code to Win2k was leaked/stolen a few years ago. Balmer seems unconcerned with this potential violation.

[Duke Nukum]

They should just rewrite linux to make it easy and fun to use.

I had a dream last night such a linux existed and I set up an old machine of mine to use it. But I still mostly used windows since there are games and fun stuff to do with windows.

At work, we mostly chase linux and unix (which are the same thing) problems from platform to platform. Every platform claims they're doing it the right way but all they do is break my scripts and piss me off.

Sometimes you can use typeset -Z2 to add leading zeroes and sometimes you have to pull your hair out.

Sometimes you can do:

echo $L|awk -F" " {'print $2,$3,$5 '}|read MONTH DAY SIZE

And other times you're ready to put a sledgehammer through the screen, which, by the way, is the wrong thing to attack since the evil is in the CPU and sometimes on external hard drives.

DEATH TO UNIX! LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

[ShadowAce]

Come N3WBI3, I thought you'd (at least) ping GE, since he posted the original. :)

[ShadowAce]

From another thread:
We'll just have to wait and see now, won't we? Personally, I'm hoping that it isn't true.

Here ya go.

[Golden Eagle]

Like I'm going to believe the OSDL and their liberal buddies that are adding new Chicom members faster than I can count? HA!

OSDL Waves Red Flag in China