Joshua,
You might want to point out to people that the umbrella is available in
both white and black base colors. They can look at the three pictures
to see the difference.
md
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 14:05 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> It looks like Debian Switzerland is selling these great
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:15 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> To be precise, the lyrics are copyrighted. The tune is from
> the 1893 song "Good Morning to All", and is public domain.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
> for references.
>
> If you can find, or create, alternative
>
> Besides, on a video conference, the other parties can tell if you're
> reading your email while they're talking, or when you mute the mic so
> you can make fun of them. ;-)
>
Or even if all the people at the far end have left the room, leaving you
droning on with your report.
Yes, I pref
Hi folks,
I remember when Digital had audio meetings with people sitting in a
large room talking to an audio box. It was boring and painful because
you could NOT see the other person's body language, or even who was
there.
Video conferencing (and on a big "TV") made things a lot better, in my
ex
Ben,
>
> The big question mark, to me, is the Drupal offer. Joining forces
> is cooperative and may put less of a load on our hosts. OTOH, DTVZ
> makes a good point. ;-) I also don't understand the DrupalNH
> food/payment arrangements that were mentioned.
I could make August 11, September
Hi Loyd!
Sorry I missed your meeting tonight, I returned from another trip, got
busy and your meeting announcements flew past.
I have this suggestion for meeting topics that I used to use a long time
ago:
Once a quarter or every six months you send out a simple email to your
mailing list that sa
This sounds to me like a race condition that causes you to run out of
some critical resource while the system is starting up.
There are a lot of processes that are kicked off during start up and it
takes an abnormal amount of resources. After you are up and running
these resources are freed up as
> `Oooh--how ergonomic!' is a tough first impression to give, though.
> Unless you're presenting to ergonomists, maybe :)
>
How about "how easy to use"?
md
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Dustin Maselbas, of the CLUE mailing list, pointed out this YouTube
video that I thought was pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Ul_A0VBVI
A bit late for the superbowl, but perhaps other events...
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ree Software,
and (even more importantly) Open Standards and Open Data.
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Jerry,
I agree with you:
> even the visionaries who envisioned the Internet (such as Vint Cerf and
> J. C. R. Licklider and a few others) designed the Internet with 8-bit IP
> addresses.
It is easy to be a visionary when you are looking via the rear-view
mirror.
Warmest regards,
md
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> I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.
The IBM PC was released in 1981. You expected something other than
"kludges"?
md
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o
> >> Hudson). I make PySIG when I can, as well.
> >> -Shawn
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orically, my colleagues find hidden APIs, and use them for
> > either because they are there or because they might be more efficient.
>
> > How many programs have been written to use undocumented APIs
> > only to crash when the vendor changes the API without notice.
>
exchanging
> post-cards with Thomas Jefferson or Florence Nightingale'.
>
> It's changing, though. :(
>
> Not have we lost Steve Jobs (for better or worse) *and* Dennis Ritchie,
> this month, but we've *also* just lost John McCarthy:
>
> http://techcrun
>
> As for Computer Hut (http://www.thecomputerhut.com), it is a long-established
> NH business, though relatively recently moved from their digs on Elm St. I
> can
> vouch for them, as, yes, I worked there back in '93. And, unlike big shops,
> turnover is incredibly low; indeed, the lead tech
repair, it might be
easier to buy another whole X60 off ebay and use the two to make one
completely good system.
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as unconfirmed:
> <http://www.osnews.com/story/25232/Dennis_Ritchie_Creator_of_UNIX_and_C_Dead_at_70/>.
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On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 20:49 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> In contrast - I like the term "legacy software" for the likes of
> proprietary software.
>
> We're talking about changing mindsets here - not the mindsets of those
> who read mailing lists like this one, but the PHBs who justify the
> purcha
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 14:42 -0400, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> >1.
> >http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html
> >
> >If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at
> >least, according to
> You'll throw away a sheet or four,
> working out alignment issues,
I usually print on a regular sheet of paper to get my "alignment"
problems fixed, holding the regular sheet of paper over the labels to
see if the printing aligns.
Open Office Writer has pretty good support for Avery and other
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:04 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Try brewing beer. There seems to be a tendancy towards beards in home
> brewers too.
>
> I know many gnhlugers have brewed in the past.
>
Ridiculous! Beer never touches my lips!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150236773742025.35
At one USENIX there were people going around with fake beards being "Ken
Thompson", and later at an Atlanta Linux Showcase there was a day when
there were an amazing number of "maddog beards".
@ryan - yes the Atlanta Linux Showcase beards did look a lot like
re-purposed ZZ Top beards.
I have deci
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:24 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>
> > Finally I think to say that "Linux is powered by beards" does not
> > play well to all the females and beardless youth (of all ages)
> > who have contributed so much to the project.
>
> Yikes! It didn't occur to me that anybody who
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:03 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> http://linuxbeard.com/
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"Linux is powered by beards".
Well,
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:24 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> bounced for some reason -
>
> jeff
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Jeffry Smith
> Date: Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:39 PM
> Subject: Linux reference on subs
> To: Greater New Hampshire LUG
>
>
> http://www.nashuatelegra
>
> Why, when I was growing up, we didn't even have air! ;-)
>
They tell me I had air, but there was no home air conditioning that
anyone could afford, and in Baltimore during the 1950s, that meant hot,
humid summer nights for a young kid lying in bed, dripping in sweat.
Those were the days
>
>The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15],
>Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011
Uh Oh,
I was in Ghana last year and there was a whole raft of people sitting
outside the post office with manual typewriters typing up government
forms in trip
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:53 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> "Jon \"maddog\" Hall" writes:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > > On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Details here: h
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> > A couple folks lamented missing the last opportunity.
> >
> > The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics have a no-cost event
> > collecting eWaste and disposing of it responsibly.
> >
> > 21 May, 9 A
Hi,
This is not completely a "Linux oriented thing", but there will be a lot of
Linux oriented
people there, and it is about beerso if you are not interested, "d" is a
perfectly
acceptable response.
I am doing some contract work at a large Linux-oriented company in Westford,
MA. I got tog
>The assumption of the original question, as stated, was that there was
>some resistance, when the conversation he quoted, depending on tone,
>could very well have been used to enlighten, instead of a condesending,
>'If your not in the IN crowd, your obviously an idiot'.
I read this part, read you
>John, *you* provided the information that everyone should always be
>trying to inovate.
Pardon me, I said that a lot of IT managers are now looking at IT as a
non-strategic resource, and therefore do not look at it as something
where they should innovate. I do not believe I *ever* said *everyone
>The answer doesn't scale.
Sorry, it scaled with the information you gave me.
>That same 'problem' using a cluster years ago can now be processed in
>*minutes* on a Xeon quad processor.
...and the capabilities of the ENIAC can be done on my wristwatch today.
o First of all, I am talking about 1
>Do you honestly give a snot if the machine testing you for Cancer is
>taking twice as long as it could if I'd implemented an innovating data
>analysys algorithm?
Interesting you should ask that particular question.
The first Beowulf system I ever physically saw was at the University of
Sao Paulo
Thomas,
>But to the original posters comments, the right solution isn't, by
>default, 'FOSS'.
I do not know what question you are trying to answer, perhaps
>How do list members respond to this line of questioning?
But the question I am trying to answer, also from the original poster
was:
>>Why
>How does one innovate if one has to do *everything* in a standard
>fashion?
Exactly! And now you have touched on another sore spot I have with
today's managementthey do not see IT as a "strategic resource".
Some managers treat IT today as if it is a commodity, something that
"has to happen"
>'Buying a solution' is how we always approach things. We don't build
>our own cars or houses from kits anymore - we buy them pre-built.
Sometimes "buying a solution" is one way of solving a problem,
particularly if the solution fits the problem. However if the solution
does not fit the problem
>This whole conversation reminds me of the contention that existed
>between Cobol and Fortran programmers. Put one or more of either into a
>team with the others, and you're got a recipe for instant gray haired
>managers - especially when reviewing each other's code!
I worked with a man who wrote
>Why do many large organizations tend to resist FOSS? Discuss.
FUD...utilizing the true definitionof the unknown.
Even today there are lots of people in IT management who started after
the beginning of Microsoft and Appleand other "systems" companies
who utilized closed source. "Buying
>But really, nobody got fired for buying "the standard",
>i.e. what everyone else is buying.
People get fired because the project does not work...it makes little
difference if the failed solution is "standard" or not.
md
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For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have met him, let
me just say that Doug is one of those giants whose shoulders we are
always standing on.
However, he is a quiet, humble giant, and if you never studied the
history of Unix, or computer science in general you probably would not
k
Hi,
There is a small conference this Saturday at Worcester State University.
http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/
It was produced by a university student there, with a target audience of
students who are not using Linux or Free Software today. However, they
welcome everyone, and if you have some
>> I will be leaving Nashua about 1400 on March 12th ...
> Apparently, this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium will be announcing a
> new addition to the Linux kernel: Time travel.
Yes, that should have been "June 12th", and we will be coming back on
"June 16th" (although that part was correct).
Hi,
For reasons too long to explain here I am going to drive to the Ottawa
Linux Symposium (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2011/) It takes about
seven hours from Nashua, and I will be leaving Nashua about 1400 on
March 12th, so we should be getting into Ottawa about 2100 on the night
of the 12th...
>after a unfortunate accident involving a package manager, a liquid
>lunch, and a pair of rubber bands
I would love to hear more about this at the upcoming ManchLUG meeting.
I knew there was a reason for avoiding rubber bands.
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Hi,
I am trying to find some "Open Source" software that can do a webinar.
It either has to handle clients of the major OSes (Linux, OS/X, MS) or
has to be browser based. The less that has to be installed on the
client, the better.
The server side would ideally be Linux.
The server side soft
>I would have preferred to have gone with fiber but when Granite State
>Telephone came out to the house they were talking about trenching
>through my driveway and my neighbors driveway, plus it would be some
>unknown time in the future.
I would have given up my whole driveway and half of my front
I think the discussions are both relevant and interesting.
If Seth starts asking about baby formula laws, etc. then perhaps another
list, but "Open Government Data Bill" would seem to fit with "Open
Source", IMHO
md
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> In fairness, I can testify that if you skip the graphics and just
>use the CD or audio player to play music, the system load is
>negligible. At least, that's how it was on the Indigo in the lab I
>worked in.
True. But what the Byte Labs people were gaga over was the fact that
all the audio ma
Joshua,
I will not comment on most of your discussion, since I think you and I agree
that some of
the words in Seth's document will be hard to prove as written, and perhaps
should be modified
so the opponents of the bill will not have statements to challenge.
>> If you want to make "adherence t
Ben,
> SGI was the Unix world's answer to the Apple Macintosh: Physical
>design is colorful, bold, almost artistic; all the OEM pieces work
>together very well; oh-so-pretty desktop GUI; utterly incompatible
>with anything third-party; way more expensive than everything else.
>;-)
These machines
Seth,
Sorry for not replying sooner, but family duties at the holiday season
had me hopping.
Here are some small comments:
Statement of Purpose and Findings, Section I (d):
"and the monopoly conditions imposed by these suppliers"
remove the word "monopoly". Closed source is closed source
Ben,
You may find it interesting to follow the thread of discussion from that
original post of Theo's. There could have been trap doors put in the
network stack as well as in the encryption code.
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I have met Theo de Raadt several times, and have the deepest respect and
admiration for the work that he and his team have done with OpenBSD, and
the OpenSSL software. Their work benefited many distributions.
If the allegations are false, I do not understand why someone would make
them.
If these
>so what goes to Microsoft's consortium?"
>>concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN
>>Holdings LLC.
Which, from what I read, equates to 800+ patents.
As to the SCO suit, it takes two to sue. The "new Novell" could say
that SCO was right all along, and it does own the int
>said the current textbook contracts are like 20 year things
Well, a 20 year textbook contract is the first thing that should be
outlawed.
md
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> It was a group raid, no blue boxes found. The sex crimes offices were
> vacant
> (it was early morning), so that's where I got taken while arranging
> for the
> charges to be dropped.
>
Wow, and all I ever did was almost burn down/blow up the dorm once or
twice while experimenting with chemica
>I'm not advocating any particular approach; just trying to stir some
>discussion.
>One thing PySIG does that may help counter this is to have a block
>of time explicitly scheduled for general Q&A, newbies, and "gotchas".
>As I recall, they do that at 6:30 and any formal presentation starts
>at 7
David,
>His web site exists here:
>http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/
It must be residing on a PRO 350 running an early version of V7M-11 (nee
Ultrix-11)it took such a long time to load, but was definitely worth
the wait.
Thanks again for the memories.
md
P.S. My note about Terry from that s
David,
Unfortunately the site you mention:
http://www.alphant.com/
has a FAQ that is wrong:
http://www.alphant.com/ant_faq.shtml#64bits
Alpha NT never supported a 64-bit virtual address space. I seem to
remember that Digital offered that code to Microsoft in 1992, but
Microsoft turned it down
Ben,
>From an admittedly faulty and ever-aging memory of events:
> And Cutler moved to Microsoft because DEC just wanted to
> maintain/extend VMS, while Cutler wanted to write a new OS ("MICA")
> for the new hardware architecture ("PRISM") that was being designed.
> Microsoft needed a better OS
Hi,
For those of you who delayed for some reason in registering for
LinuxCON, here is a code that you can use to save $180 off the
registration, even if you do this right before leaving for LinuxCON.
Go to this page, check the box that says "LinuxCON Registration Fee"
http://events.linuxfoundati
>... depending on where the patent is granted.
Sorry, this is a fiction.
When a USA company creates a device, they typically pay the patents
across the board, not just on the units that are going to countries that
"respect" patents.
When companies are building products, they make product decisio
>Given that the patent system is an impingement
>on the liberties of 300,000,000 people (telling them what they may not
>do with their own property) to benefit one person or a small handful
>of his cohorts, the hurdle to prove the case ought to be set very,
>very high.
I would argue that the imp
This article about software patents popped up today. Any comments about
the relevance and possibilities of software patent reform to the point
of reversal and removal?
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/07/death_knell_for.html;jsessionid=GXGKJE0XM2GPJQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?cid=n
Hi,
I normally do not send around these types of things, but LinuxCon is in
Boston this year, and if you are intending on going this code will save
you 20% off the price, and if executed before this thursday you will
save yourself another 100 dollars from the price increase that will be
happening.
>If I recall, this is probably related to the original AT&T vs. BSD back
>in the 90s, but this was settled out of court. If I remember correctly,
>Eric Raymond wrote a position paper asserting this back in 2003:
>http://catb.org/~esr/hackerlore/sco-vs-ibm.html
As I have written before:
http://www
Hi Bill,
Thanks for sharing that article. I wrote a rather lengthy comment to
it, but will duplicate the comment here:
The devil will be in the details of the agreement, but for the most
point this seems like an agreement to make some Russian bureaucrat "feel
good".
(1) If the Russians are tryi
> Hmmm. I wonder if some cookie company somewhere decided that they
>might as well use fortune(6) to obtain their copy...
My favorite fortune(6) was for Mock Apple Pie made from Ritz Crackers,
originally printed on the back of the Ritz Cracker box.
If it is true that this fortune cookie company
>should be dismembered.
Well, before you dismember them, have you actually ever written to them
and told them?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Contact%20us
I have written to Sourceforge twice, once to ask about site statistics
(i.e. number of projects, number of developers) tha
Hi Arc,
>Sourceforge has been corrupted for a long time.
In what ways has this corruption evidenced itself?
md
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>I personally prefer the PDP-8 approach :-)
Ouch. That was a bit too RISC-y, even for me.
Still it was a great machine for the time.
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>The X86_64 benchmarks beat the IA64 in many cases.
They did not call the IA64 architecture the "Itanic" for nothing.
To be fair, a lot of the libraries for X86_64 have probably had a lot
more eyes go over them and more optimizations done than for the IA64,
particularly for Linux.
On the other h
>And doesn't the pae kernel address these issues?
Yes, and a lot of the distributions use the PAE features of the kernel
as a default.
Of course I would still recommend going with the 64-bit version of the
OS, as others have mentioned.
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>I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My question is should I do 32 or 64
>bit? If I go 32-bit I will not be able to use all the ram, and if I go
>64-bit I may not have all the drivers.
These days I would not worry too much between not having the proper
support for 64-bit Intel products over the 32-b
Hi,
I am working on an article about FOSS multimedia, and I found this video
which I thought was worth passing along;
http://www.mdlf.org/en/main/multimedia/
it is the one at the bottom of the page entitled:
Radio Pikon Ane
make sure you make it full screen so you can read the titles.
This is
Since you are the second person to comment on what I said, I suppose I
was not very clear, so I will try again.
I really had no intention of applying my comment to Linux or Open
Source. It was more about continuing to drive science and technology to
keep generating jobs, but when you get high sch
Susan,
A great graphic.
Now all we have to do is train our students the significance of that,
train our programmers to really take advantage of all that computing
power, and our companies to use it to make new products here in the USA,
and we should still be world leaders.
Warmest regards,
md
>I'm surprised to see SGI still has a significant presence. I
>thought they were pretty much defunct at this point.
As Mark Twain once said: "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
SGI is not what it once was, but they do have some significant products
in this space. They are great for sca
Hi,
There was a very nice InformationWeek Daily "Image Gallery" article
about the Government's 10 Most Powerful Supercomputers:
http://links.techwebnewsletters.com/ctt?kn=53&m=34942607&r=MTQwMDgyMDE0OQS2&b=2&j=NzQ5NTQzMTES1&mt=1&rt=0
Highlights to the article mention our favorite operating syste
The only thing about July 5th is that it is at the end of the July 4th
weekend, and you may not get as many people.
md
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>I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some
>interest?
Joe,
I would be very interested in a presentation on coreboot. Unfortunately
I will be out of the country until the end of May.
But thank you for validating my premise.
md
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> The important thing is consistency. People drop in without checking
> the -announce list, if they know they can count on it.
>
I agree with this for the most part. People set aside time for the
meeting, and they get upset when it is "intermittent". We suffered from
this with Martha's Exchang
> Tsk. Brook's Law applies. Facilities and publication turns out to
> be relatively easy. Finding speakers is apparently the really hard
> job.
A suggestion here:
What I found as a leader of the group was that it was very hard to
figure out WHAT people wanted to HEAR about. Therefore every
>1) You can't have a beer at Morse Hall.
As odd as this sounds coming from me, I feel that having beer at the
event itself is bad for two reasons:
- underage people may feel awkward or unwanted
- there are various people who are not drinkers and don't want to
associate with people drinking, or ha
>teacher decided to force logs on us... by way of a slide rule. I was
>the fastest in my class -- but it still made me wonder if
>similarly-dire Luddite-esque predictions hadn't been made when they'd
>come along.
While I learned to use a slide rule, for some reason the relation of
logarithms and
>As an ex military pilot, I learned how to read a map and find out where
>I am on the map.
As a sailor I was told to learn how to use a sextant. I ordered one,
and to my dismay instead of receiving a cover for the cockpit of my boat
to give me some privacy for intimate gatherings, it turned out t
> > I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions.
>
> I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to
> discover
> an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian mountain
> roads at night in the fog. I usually have it rigged HUD-style (more
> or
I have few personal heroes. No baseball players or movie stars take up
that space with me.
But I do take off my hat to two people:
o Abraham Lincoln
o Samuel Clemens
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Clemens' death, and to not
note it would be a crime.
If he were alive today, I am su
I told people that if they sent in their "Hot, New OSS projects just to
me, I would tally them up and send them out again.
I thank you all for your recommendations. Here they are below. I tried
to take out duplicates, and those answers that were sent to the entire
mailing list I have left out, s
>EasyNET was around in the glorious '80s, too!
uucp(1) - Unix to Unix Copy
decvax!maddog - who needs any stinking domain names?
And surely you *name* your computer systems!
"shaman", "guru", "shamet", "wicca" - my systems all have *names*
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! (sneezy, dopey, doc,
Recently I ordered some books from Amazon's resellers, and had then
delivered "USPS"the cheapest way. For the first part of the journey
they were carried by FED-EX, then delivered to my mailbox by USPS. I
could see this from the tracking information.
md
Hi,
I was doing a bit of catching up on security issues on Linux, and I
noticed on Ubuntu 9.10 that the lcap command that used to be available
about five years ago seems to have disappeared.
lcap and its friends used to allow you to turn off capabilities in the
kernel so once you had made your fi
> Any idea what they mean by "OSS project"? :)
>
> Now, I'm serious: are they looking for software projects that *are*
> Open Source *Software*, or hardware projects that *use* OSS, or what?
> (Linux Journal, for example, specifically asked for hardware projects
> when they called for `Cool Proj
Hi,
I am writing an article for the Linux Foundation about the "10 Hot New
OSS Projects", but because I have a warped and twisted view of things in
the world, I know that my ideas* of "Hot, New OSS Projects" may be a lot
different than many other people's ideas.
Plus, I have no idea exactly what
>I think that Ransom Love had much different plans for the Santa Cruz
>assets they bought when he was CEO of Caldera.
Ransom "understood Linux", but was still forced to try and create a
"cheap Unix", and part of that was buying SCO.
md
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