Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!
Got root?
Went to another optician, today, and noticed that their whole office system is based on Red Hat Linux.
The open movement, which Donofrio sees happening in many industries outside of computer software, is forcing people to rethink their various intellectual property models and to rethink where it is they can offer the most value to their respective users.
Yes; it is really bothering investors who have spent a lot of time and money on modeling future cash flows, based upon the old, till now, intellectual property models.
That is why Forbes and the Alexis de Toqueville funds (and donors) crowd is supporting SCO, at least in public.
The intellectual property people want every subroutine to be a royalty-due piece of sheet music, and probably the "music industry" does, too.
When the barn door was left open decades ago.
Over the last 5 decades, at any given time, the propability is high, that computer code will found to be identical among several hundred or even thousand authors, and, that their notes explaining their routines' designs, will also be identical.
Among two thousand computer engineers, or mechanical engineers, or electrical engineers, they are likely to produce identically, products, and descriptions.
Take two thousand engineers, give them the same widget, and have them write a description of it ... you are going to find a few dozen at the minium, whose wording is exactly the same ... and you'll probably find a few whose handwriting is a match.
IMHO
"...diversity of the world..."
"...collaborative innovation..."
"When more people have access to..."
That's a lot of Commie talk coming from Mr. IBM. Reminds me of Linux and Open Source.
Do they have it in writing?
No?
What is a "kernel"?
anti-IP links:
http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm
