Theres posts all over, but I was reading it on Groklaw and they voted NO!! This is awesome... not the end of a three year battle but, definatly a big step in the *right* direction. The vote was 648 to 14 to throw out the proposed law.
PJ noted her favorite quote from none other than Steve Ballmer:
"There is important innovation coming out of the software industry,'' Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said in Paris today before the parliament vote. "We think that innovation needs to be protected.''
Which PJ finnishes up with:
I will translate for you. I take that to mean: they would like to be protected from innovation by others.
And I must say I agree. Man I really think he's retarded... don't they have enough money? I mean they haven't "innovated" in years... which some of you might disagree with, but really, everything that could be somewhat considered innovation that came out of redmond, didn't actually come from there... they purchased and prossibly stole it from others.
Props to the European Union! Thanks for giving me some hope.
In the wake of more than 5 anti-trust suits, the new one on the block is Go. They are claiming that Microsoft threatened Intel(which had invesed in Go), and coerce Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other computer makers not to use Go's operating system. Given MS's history, I don't think its that far of a stretch. They've been paying out millions in anti-trust settlements as of late, to the tune of atleast 3 billion. I understand their place in the computer industry, unfortunatly its not where they are currently. I guess it goes without saying that I'm an open source advocate, however that does not mean I think linux should take MS's place, nor do I think Linux will completly erradicate Windows in all markets. I do think however, that Linux will take the business sector. Why? MS is killing themselves in this market. I think the more applications they buy and package as their own, the more they eliminate what got them where they are in the first place. They're transitiong to a point where, your either going to have to be all Microsoft or everyone else. Which I don't think alot of companies are going to like. And they will choose "everyone else". More and more companies aren't liking vendor lock in. Why? because vendors abuse it, they take it for granted and then have the nerve to charge you out of this world prices for their lack of responding to your companies needs, and then act offended when you tell them your thinking of going to other vendors and/or products. I find it somewhat amusing that these vendors don't seem to get the transitions that are happening. The IT market is changing, but they're trying to play the aged old game they've been able to play since IT began. Its not going to work, if they don't adapt they'll suffer a slow and painful death... Just look at SCO. They've excellerated the process by attacking it when they don't fully understand it, and they've meet their end. They'll be out of customers long before they get their trial. Thats still assuming they can make it that far.
The IT market is changing, IBM seems to get it, as does Novell. SCO doesn't... which are you?
August 17, 2004 Posted by mitch |
legal |
The latest... man I'm not quite sure what SCO is thinking as they seem to be backed into a corner now. However, heres the latest: IBM acts to throw out SCO's Linux claims[zdnet] and SCO unfazed by IBM motion for summary judgment in $5 billion lawsuit[newsforge] but I think the best one is IBM Goes For the Jugular -- Files Motion For Partial Summary Judgment on Contract Claims! from GrokLaw. Basically, SCO is saying that "their" interpretation of the License IBM signed is that all of IBM's homegrown code belongs to them (sounds ALOT like the borg doesn't it?). However, who, under any terms, would agree to such a license? Doubtful IBM would. Anyway, in the latest filing by IBM they have gone back and talked to the original creators of their license and included their responces (which say that any clause in the licenses was to protect their System V code, NOT anything IBM added to it). So, IBM is free to release into the public domain or under the GPL as the case maybe as long as NONE of the System V code is included in that release. Which if that wasn't enough IBM goes on to note that they were still able as of August 4th 2004 they were still able to download the 2.4 version of the Linux kernel in its entirety (GPL'd 'n all). Which wouldn't that make any violations by IBM null and void because SCO is now knowingly distributing it? IBM thinks so(and I tend to agree). And yet, if that wasn't enough, Novell has also excused IBM of any wrong doing(because it claims it never gave up its own rights to the System V code which superceed that of SCO's).
Fun stuff eh? Can't wait to hear the ruling from the Judge about it. Because I'm not quite sure how anyone could weasle out of it. Time will tell.
August 5, 2004 Posted by mitch |
legal |
Groklaw has an article about the latest crap comming out of SCO. I know I'm tired of hearing it. I really hope this is going to be resolved soon because I get so annoyed with the crap they come out with.
July 21, 2004 Posted by mitch |
legal, linux |
DaimlerChrysler Hearing was today. SCO lost on all counts except their complaint that DC took longer than 30 days to certify that they did not have any of SCO code on ANY of their servers... in use or just sitting on a file server... Well, FINALLY some of the air has been let out of their big heads. Hopefully this is the begining of the end. (I know its all going to end eventually, but sooner is better than later... because I'm really tired of hearing the crap that comes out of SCO..)
The latest from Groklaw has some insite on SCO's latest motion in the SCO vs. IBM case. My favorite part is this:
SCO writes that they need IBM to hand these things over because IBM "appears to assert that to establish IBM's breach of the Agreement at issue, SCO requires specific evidence of derivation from UNIX System V lines of code through the versions of AIX and Dynix code to Linux."
Basically, they don't have anything, and this whole lawsuite has been to see if they could get something from IBM. Which goes back to what everyone was saying in the beginning. SCO has NOTHING, they started the lawsuit most likely to be bought out, and since it didn't happen, they started playing a "high-stakes poker game, with lousy cards, but pretending to hold Aces, only now it's time to show their cards", I couldn't agree more with that statement.
Anyway... this all really still urks me, because it seems like its getting so close to an end... but the dumb factor keeps getting worse.
