What? No evidence?

Good morning, SCO ANZ!

Today dawns fine and clear, and I see no invoice from you, and no 
evidence for any of The SCO Group's code being in Linux.

In my office, I constantly run a uniprocessor server on Linux 2.6.1, a 
UP server on 2.4.23, a dual-processor server on 2.4.22, two UP 
workstations on 2.6.1 and a UP laptop on 2.4.22. In addition, I 
regularly run up other Linux-based machines as they are prepared for 
installation on client premises.

If you know that in doing so I'm using any of your code, copyrighted 
material, patented processes or anything of the kinds, please send me 
an invoice for those but only if you can accompany the invoice with 
precise specification of the rights you can prove are being used.

By "precise" I really do mean precise: vague references like "the RCU 
code" will not do because they are not sufficient to make an 
independent determination of the veracity of your claims. The SCO Group 
must surely have at least some of this evidence available already, as 
it is being required to collate it for presentation to a US Court in a 
week or so.

If you have any trouble identifying the kernels I'm using, just pull the 
latest Mandrake Cooker kernels from a file mirror like the one below, 
and supply the version number of that along with a list of file names 
and line number ranges referring to that which you claim as your 
property:

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/devel/cooker/SRPMS/

RE: What? No Evidence?

Dear Leon,

Thanks for your correspondence with "<-|" (or the sofware company formerly known as SCO/Caldera.)

Please note that we have used some of our share gains these last few weeks to "re-brand" again.

We have decided to do this every quarter when we should be auditing, that way, we have an "alibi" if we run into
regulatory strife when trying to explain our "highly qualified" and "elastic" bottom line. 

As of today, we will be known as "<-|", a vain attempt to rip off that guy who used to be called Prince I
know......but at least it won't be able to be morphed into derogatory terms like "schmo". The name calling
these last few weeks has been quite distressing for all concerned....

Our answers appear below:

Leon Brooks <leon@...> wrote ..
> Good morning, SCO ANZ!
Hello sweet cheeks. 

> Today dawns fine and clear, and I see no invoice from you, and no 
> evidence for any of The SCO Group's code being in Linux.
> 
> In my office, I constantly run a uniprocessor server on Linux 2.6.1, a
> UP server on 2.4.23, a dual-processor server on 2.4.22, two UP 
> workstations on 2.6.1 and a UP laptop on 2.4.22. In addition, I 
> regularly run up other Linux-based machines as they are prepared for 
> installation on client premises.
> 
> If you know that in doing so I'm using any of your code, copyrighted 
> material, patented processes or anything of the kinds, please send me 

Re: Linux (LPI) Training

Re: Linux (LPI) Training

Yukun Song <javlux@...> wrote:

>>
IBM's courses seem very expensive. I don't think they are suitable for
preparing for LPI since it is designed for testing generic Linux knowledge
on common hardware base, but neither on IBM Power machine(RISC) nor for
applications developed by IBM.
<<

IBM is a Platinum Sponsor of LPI, its courses *are* designed specifically
to meet and exceed LPI's requirements, and are *certified* as such by
ProCert. They are taught on x86 hardware using a variety of distributions
and covering commands common to most distributions, with attention to
variations such as package management.

IBM does have separate courses which deal with - for example - Linux on
mainframes, and with configuration of IBM applications like Lotus Domino,
DB2 and WebSphere on Linux - but those are not the courses being discussed
here.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]

Where to send feedback about LCA2004?

Hello,

I have some feedback about LCA2004 and how I think it could be made even
better next time. Does anyone know where should I send it?
Looking through the web site, I didn't see any address which seem 
approperiate
for such input.

Thanks,

--Amos

Re: Where to send feedback about LCA2004?

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:33:33PM +0200,
linux-aus@... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some feedback about LCA2004 and how I think it could be made even
> better next time. Does anyone know where should I send it?
> Looking through the web site, I didn't see any address which seem 
> approperiate for such input.

lca2005@... Send 'em rolling in.

We're going through this alias while preparing docs for the '05 team.
Among other things we are working on a public document on running an LCA
that may be applicable to other events too.

--

-- 
Dan Shearer
dan@...

Re: Where to send feedback about LCA2004?

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:46, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:33:33PM +0200,
linux-aus@... 
wrote:
> > I have some feedback about LCA2004 and how I think it could be made
> > even better next time.

> We're going through this alias while preparing docs for the '05 team.
> Among other things we are working on a public document on running an
> LCA that may be applicable to other events too.

A document which will consist mostly of pars beginning with "Under *NO* 
circumstances..." 

Cheers; Leon

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http://cyberknights.com.au/     Modern tools; traditional dedication
http://plug.linux.org.au/       Committee Member, Perth Linux User Group
http://slpwa.asn.au/            Committee Member, Linux Professionals WA
http://linux.org.au/            Past Committee Member, Linux Australia

Re: Where to send feedback about LCA2004?

<quote who="Leon Brooks">

> A document which will consist mostly of pars beginning with "Under *NO*
> circumstances..." 

... should wine or beer be served in jugs at the conference dinner.

... should Conrad be allowed near the stage with a microphone in hand at the
conference dinner.

... should organisers encourage the disrobing and eventual dunking of pasty
white guys and girls.

... should any attendee travel in an ambulance at any stage, for any reason.

... should the date of the conference deviate from January. 

- Jeff

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            o/~ we all live in a yellow subroutine o/~ - auspex

Anyone else want to make a target of themselves?

    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/02/1075570348783.html

SCO ANZ don't seem minded to pick up on this one. I know the email hit 
their servers within seconds. They took www.sco.com out of DNS, but 
sco.com still resolved and wasn't responding. Their MX 
(mail.ut.caldera.com) did respond, a little lagged but working fine.

If they ignore it and hope it goes away, they're in for a rude shock. If 
they pick it up, they throw away their hard-worked-for underdog image 
(can't say "earned", 'twould be a lie).

If a couple of other voices join the chorus, this will somewhat tighten 
the screws on them - the open-source way,k sometimes described as "like 
being nibbled to death by ducks".

The ideal candidate has the following characteristics:

  * either too small a target, or too big (think hp, Dell, BHP)

  * determined to follow through at any cost

  * able to not muff their lines too often in public

  * no major criminal history or other potential "dirt"

  * Linux user

Cheers; Leon

--

-- 
http://cyberknights.com.au/     Modern tools; traditional dedication
http://plug.linux.org.au/       Committee Member, Perth Linux User Group
http://slpwa.asn.au/            Committee Member, Linux Professionals WA
http://linux.org.au/            Past Committee Member, Linux Australia

Re: Where to send feedback about LCA2004?

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Dan Shearer wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:33:33PM +0200,
linux-aus@... wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have some feedback about LCA2004 and how I think it could be made even
> > better next time. Does anyone know where should I send it?
> > Looking through the web site, I didn't see any address which seem 
> > approperiate for such input.
> 
> lca2005@... Send 'em rolling in.

The 2005 team can be reached at lca2005@...

Mikal

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