Speaking for myself, so please ignore my e-mail's origins,
I've found the material discussed at http://www.groklaw.net/
interesting enough to check on a regular basis.
Mind you, there are times when I wonder if I'm reading either "Blue
Monday" or "The Onion" when I see it in the regular news.
Now... lemme see... there are times I think I should've tried
stand-up (considering that Jeff Foxworthy got his start in IBM here in
Tampa) and, really, many of the peripheral comments have been, well,
amusing. I really can't add much to it.
Kenny will reassure you that my humor is far too specialized so
you'll never see me on The Tonight Show.
Bill Gates to Darl McBride: "You are the MS-DOS of evil: only 640K,
not evil enough!"
-soup
Another line of mine: "If you think that the best reason to have a
swimming pool in your back yard is to lower your fire insurance rates...
you just might belong in the IT industry" (or be an IBMer).
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John R. Campbell, Speaker to Machines (GNUrd) {813-356|697}-5322
Adsumo ergo raptus sum
MacOS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging
Windows.
IBM Certified: IBM AIX 4.3 System Administration, System Support
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In today's news.......
Enlarging the scope of its lawsuit against IBM (NYSE: IBM - news), SCO
Group has filed court documents that challenge the validity of the GPL (GNU
General Public License), the software license that governs Linux (news -
web
sites). If SCO were to successfully invalidate the GPL -- which has never
been legally challenged -- it could have an enormous impact on Linux's
future.
"The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright,
antitrust
and export control laws," states SCO in documents filed with the U.S.
District Court for Utah.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20031029/bs_nf/22583
Dave Jones
Sine Nomine Associates
Houston
