Wednesday, November 22, 2006

[itsdifferent] Microsoft to face challenge over Linux licenses on Yahoo! News

Dear all,
you may like to read this...
especially read these lines carefully:
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Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said if customers bought Linux from anyone but Novell, they could face trouble.

"If a customer says: 'Look, do we have liability for the use of your patented work?' Essentially, if you're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes," Ballmer told eWeek.com recently, referring to the Linux system sold by Novell.

"I suspect that (customers) will take that issue up with their distributor," Ballmer said, adding that if customers considered doing a direct download of a non-SUSE Linux version, "they'll think twice about that."

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what this mean??? in short linux is not free now... :(:(:(: only if microsoft will win the challange!!!, we wish he will loose...

 

Microsoft to face challenge over Linux licenses

By David Lawsky and Sabina ZawadzkiTue Nov 21, 3:32 PM ET

Supporters of the free PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) deal which established for the first time the principle of paying the software giant to use Linux.

Microsoft signed a deal with Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news), one of the providers of Linux, in which Novell paid a lump sum in return for a guarantee that Microsoft would not sue Novell's clients for what it calls a violation of its own patents in the Linux program.

Eban Moglen, one of the pioneers of free software, said Microsoft's deal skirts the requirements of the GNU General Public License, used by Linux and other free programs, which requires the software to be given away.

He said he and others have started work on updating the license to close the loophole by inserting a clause stating that a promise not to sue, such as the one given by Microsoft, would be automatically applicable to everyone.

That would effectively flip Microsoft's agreement on its head and guarantee that no one would face a suit from Microsoft if anyone were protected.

"A clause like that would not be difficult to get community agreement on these days," Moglen said, adding that a change could be ready in weeks or months.

A spokesman for Novell, Bruce Lowry, said: "We don't want to speculate on what would happen under the next version of the GNU General Public License because things are still in motion." Microsoft had no comment.

In the meantime, the prospect of a drawn-out legal battle with Microsoft, an experienced litigator, could push users of Linux into the hands of Novell and away from dominant Linux provider Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT - news), which does not have such a deal with Microsoft.

Although Linux is free, providers of the system offer the software with packaging, documentation and -- most important -- installation and maintenance, so that any client shift from Red Hat would cost it money.

"Either customers desert Red Hat to go to Novell, to get safety, or Red Hat will be forced into a similar deal with Microsoft," said Moglen, a professor at Columbia Law School and founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center in New York.

LIABILITY?

Under the Novell deal, in which both companies agreed not to sue each other's clients for patent violation, Microsoft agreed to pay Novell $348 million, with Novell paying Microsoft $40 million, on the basis that Novell has fewer customers.

Microsoft is paying $108 million for the non-litigation agreement and the rest for Linux subscriptions for resale or distribution to its customers.

Microsoft says it has patent rights to some of the technology in Linux, although it has never said exactly what those rights might be or what patents are involved.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said if customers bought Linux from anyone but Novell, they could face trouble.

"If a customer says: 'Look, do we have liability for the use of your patented work?' Essentially, if you're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes," Ballmer told eWeek.com recently, referring to the Linux system sold by Novell.

"I suspect that (customers) will take that issue up with their distributor," Ballmer said, adding that if customers considered doing a direct download of a non-SUSE Linux version, "they'll think twice about that."

Microsoft makes the Windows operating system, for which it charges billions of dollars a year, but Linux has been a thorn in the software giant's side because it is freely available.

Linux was created, maintained and improved by volunteers working under a license requiring that it be freely available for copying, modification and improvements.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

ASP.Net WebService w/o IIS

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In .net 1.1 , Anyone came across creating and Deploying web services (of course with WSDL and UDDI ) without hosting them in IIS ?
 
Theoretically it is possible as there are no evidence of marriage between web service and IIS,
 
I found this ... if any one have more thoughts, can you please share  ?
 
 


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Monday, November 13, 2006

[itsdifferent] something regarding our gr8! Indian rail...

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You may be interested in reading few facts & details regarding Indian rail:

 

http://www.geocities.com/indianrails/index.htm

 

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

[itsdifferent] Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

  • The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
  • Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
  • A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
  • A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
  • There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans. 
  • One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
  • The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language;192 Slugs have four noses.
  • Sharks can live up to 100 years.
  • Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
  • Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
  • About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday
  • The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
  • The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
  • Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency 
  • Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
  • There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
  • It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with. 
  • The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
  • Octopus have three hearts 
  • If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
  • The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change. 
  • 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
  • The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
  • Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
  • Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
  • Most cats are left pawed
  • 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
  • You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling! 
  • Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
  • An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

[itsdifferent] Nice information regarding Ahmedabad

Hi All Different,

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedabad

 

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Kiran

 

 

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