Posts by sisk

IBM tears up open source patent pledge, claims FOSS

Not quite

They didn't 'let' Amdahl, Fujitsu, and Hitachi sell plugins. US Law didn't give them a choice in the matter at the time. They changed their practice before the ink was even dry when the law changed.

North Korea mobilizes Red Star Linux rollout

Communism

Communism - An idea for a system of government presented by Karl Marx.

Communism (as viewed by 90% of Americans) - What Lenin set up in Russia. It should be noted that Marx himself would not have been pleased with what Lenin called Communism.

Communism (as intended by the author of this article when referring to Linux) - An ironic device used for humor with neither intentional nor accidental bearing on real life.

Communism (as noted above) - You have two cows....

Novell (not SCO) owns UNIX, says jury

Not over???

Is this lawyer really that deluded? Not only is it over, but it's been over for years. They're like a guy with a knife in the throat still waving a blade around weakly as they fall to the ground. They're dead, they just don't know it yet, and they have basically no chance of hurting anyone any more. You'd think they'd cut their losses.

Hacker pledges to re-enable Linux on PS3

Dumb move by Sony

It seems to me that the first hack on most consoles is to get homebrew applications to run. Inevitably game pirates pick up the cracks and run with them, but it's almost always the guys wanting to run Linux or an SNES emulator or something along those lines who first develop the exploits. By letting people do that without an exploit Sony may well have staved off the inevitable piracy for years. Now they're giving those people a reason to write exploits to put Linux back on. It seems like a bonehead move to me. I give it a year, two at the most, before we see pirated games working on the PS3 now. Before the announcement I'd have said probably never because there was no reason for the people who normally find the exploits to look for them.

Microsoft confirms IE9 will shun Windows XP

We'll be stuck for a while

My place of work just upgraded to XP less than a year ago (yeah, scarey, I know). Until last month we were getting rid of IE6 through attrition, but someone finally convinced the powers that be that it was time to ditch it. To my knowledge I'm the only one here running IE8, and that's only for testing websites. Frankly I don't expect to see Windows 7 here for another 5 years or so at least....Probably about the time Windows 9 is coming out.

Incidently, in response to a couple of anonymous cowards who posted earlier:

1) IE6 is FAR from the most common IE out there now. It accounts for about 20% of our traffic, compared to 51% for IE7. Granted you're not going to find our website on a top 100,000 sites list, but we get diverse enough traffic that I think that's probably a fair reflection of what's out there.

2) Speaking as a Linux geek, I don't fear Windows 7. I still wouldn't willingly use it, but I gladly recommend it to others. A lot of the GUI features that everyone seems to love in it just drive me nuts. Isn't personal preference great? And what's with the Microsoft ad anyway? Seriously you sound like a TV commercial.