On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Rod Furey wrote: > I've been waiting for someone to come out and say this and I have to > admit that I'm gobsmacked that it's an IBMer that's said it. I can > quite believe that something (dunno what) could have gotten into > the code base. (Note: I don't say it has, just that it's > possible - don't jump on me, please (unless you're well-built, hairsu... > oops, sorry, wrong list...)) After all, how many people have looked > at some code and said "Oooh, that's neat!" and then reused the > concept somewhere else? This is (in my 2 eurocents worth) just > the way that the coding industry works and the fact that a company > somewhere (it had to be in the U.S.A. didn't it?) can claim > copyright over is is final, clinching proof that software patents > and software copyright shouldn't be allowed. > > Uh-oh, gone and done it now - I'm obviously a left-wing > pinko commie from old Europe - they'll be knocking on > my door next. > > Methinks that the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation has > competition for who'll be the first against the wall... > > Rod - slow day, been to the theme park, waiting for the > DSL connection so I can cut the phone charges, can't be > bothered doing anything relevant...
DSL is good, but watch the download limits. I have gone somewhat crazy downloading ISOs, but I've been wonderiing about that for a while. I've installed RHLESAS 3.0 beta, directly from the net (Red Hat's site in fact as I couln't find a WAIX or even Aussie mirror with the files) twice. The second went quite quickly while it was pulling packages from my Squid cache, though I did have to pull some magic to make the installer actually work - it appeared to talk to ftp.redhat.com, but put "host: pub" into the request. The plan is to install Hercules, then RHLESAS 3.0 beta for S390(,x) - only one of them, probably a small subset. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
