Dear Linux-IL members,
A potential customer of mine has designed a board based closely on a
Freescale i.MX27 reference board. He has just received a few samples of
the board from manufacturing this week.
The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board
bring-up
On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the
board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up a BusyBox
distribution with Qt libraries within five weeks, with significant
penalties for late delivery.
Are there
No, you have to include them in your price quotation.
- yba
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, sammy ominsky wrote:
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:34:58 +0300
From: sammy ominsky s...@avoidant.org
To: ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project
On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan
We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3
64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to
drain the UPS battery, with several short spurts of power until it
finally stabilized. Files appeared as directories, directories turned
into files,
Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you hit
the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project?
- yba
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:34 +0300
From: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz
To:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il wrote:
We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64
bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain
the UPS battery, with several short spurts of power until it finally
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
The client is surprised. They usually don't understand that it was
their penalty requirements that drove the price up. After all, this
is supposed to be a simple project, merely performing adaptations to
an already brought up platform,
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you
hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project?
Actually, that's an easy one.
Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you are supposed to
receive
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details,
you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a
project?
A kamikaze pilot.
Five weeks for an unproven hardware platform is
sammy ominsky wrote:
On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the
board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up a BusyBox
distribution with Qt libraries within five weeks, with significant
penalties for late
I have found commercial solutions.
I would like to stay open source as possible.
I am willing to pay if it is a free software.
--
Ori Idan
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.comwrote:
Are you willing to pay money?
There are commercial solutions
2009/8/12
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Marc Volovic wrote:
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details,
you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such
a project?
A kamikaze pilot.
Shachar
Shakoof.
Well put.I personally would tell the customer hasta la vista
danny
--
Danny Lieberman
-
http://www.software.co.il/wordpress - Danny on data security
Twitter:
Are willing to invest money into porting the signing functionality of
portablesigner from java to php (and maybe adding it to the fpdf
library) ?
2009/8/13 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il:
I have found commercial solutions.
I would like to stay open source as possible.
I am willing to pay if
My dearest fellow list members,
Can someone explain to me what the i4i-MS tiff is about? Do i4i's patent
claims regarding their XML technology affect other uses of XML besides MS
Office? That is, on this issue should we be backing MS?
Many thanks,
- yba
--
EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
My dearest fellow list members,
Can someone explain to me what the i4i-MS tiff is about? Do i4i's
patent claims regarding their XML technology affect other uses of XML
besides MS Office? That is, on this issue should we be backing MS?
I have not gone into the
Yonatan
It appeared to me at first that i4i was a patent troll so I promptly ignored
the fracas.
but they appear to be a legit software house.
OTOH -
Their injunction came shortly after Microsoft was awarded a patent related
to using XML in Word - which suggests to me that they are trying to
Danny Lieberman wrote:
the judge wants to forbid MSFT from selling Word in the US on grounds
of a patent-infringement that cannot be proved to protect a company
that relies on Word to sell it's product.
I think the injunction is really ludicrous. The rule of late was that
preventing a
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to the anti-software
patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to silly patents
over the years far outweight their gains from them.
Amazing
With all due respect what amazes me is that
geoffrey mendelson wrote:
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to the anti-software
patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to silly patents over
the years far outweight their gains from them.
Amazing
With all due
Shachar
Read Patent Failure by Besson and Meuer - software patents are a net
economic negative - ie the cost to write, issue and enforce is greater than
the economic benefit.
This is in comparison with pharma and chemical industries where patents have
a net economic positive balance - ie profit
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Where has Microsoft's junk patents given them any money? Unless they
are using extortion (possible) to quietly threaten potential FOSS
defecties away, that is. They are not selling those, and they have
never sued anyone (well, one). It
Geoff
Let's not mix the FOSS movement, politics, emotion or opinion with
economics.
The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the cost of
software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike the
pharmaceutical industry.
The cost == cost of writing, issuing,
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
Shachar
Read Patent Failure by Besson and Meuer - software patents are a net
economic negative - ie the cost to write, issue and enforce is
greater than the economic benefit.
This is in comparison with pharma and chemical industries
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the
cost of software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike
the pharmaceutical industry.
The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing
The benefit ==
Geoff
I'm sorry. Did you actually read Besson and Meurer?
I did and I think they did an excellent job of making their case that
software patents do not have economic benefit for the industry
d
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, geoffrey mendelson
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug
Danny Lieberman wrote:
Geoff
Let's not mix the FOSS movement, politics, emotion or opinion with
economics.
The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the
cost of software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike the
pharmaceutical industry.
The cost ==
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
Geoff
I'm sorry. Did you actually read Besson and Meurer?
I did and I think they did an excellent job of making their case
that software patents do not have economic benefit for the industry
I did. You can download the paper from
The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing
and licensing! Don't forget that one.
The benefit == increased revenue to the company
Shachar, licensing is a cost, but it's also a benefit. If you happen
to be the person using someone else's work for profit it's a cost. If
you happen
Geoff
Indeed the paper from Groklaw talks about the problems with the US Federal
Circuit court.
They later wrote a full length 323 page book - which I got after reading the
paper (which was a teaser I guess...)
The book deals with fundamental problems of patents - fuzzy, unpredictable
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
They later wrote a full length 323 page book - which I got after
reading the paper (which was a teaser I guess...)
Ok, the GROKLAW article said they were in the process of writing. I'd
love to see that book.
The book deals with
Geoff
IBM lumping project/custom development revenue with patent licensing revenue
is misrepresentation of patent value by 2.5 orders of magnitude.
Buy the book on Amazon.
d
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM,
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
For example - IBM began listing IP and licensing royalties in their
annual financial reports beginning in 2000 - about $1.5billion +/-
per year. The majority of the $1.5BN is value of IP sold off by IBM
including IP held by divisions
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
IBM lumping project/custom development revenue with patent licensing
revenue is misrepresentation of patent value by 2.5 orders of
magnitude.
So you say, I'll bet their auditors, the IRS and the SEC say
differently.
If you
Geoff
IBM booked(s) custom software development as patent and IP revenue.By
that definition Ness would have about 1BN revenue of revenue from IP but as
we both know - Ness doesn't have any IP
Buy the book on Amazon. Re your IBM friend, look up post-hoc error on
Wikipedia
d
On Thu,
On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote:
Geoff
IBM booked(s) custom software development as patent and IP
revenue.By that definition Ness would have about 1BN revenue of
revenue from IP but as we both know - Ness doesn't have any IP
Now you are confusing US
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you
hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a
project?
Actually, that's an easy one.
Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you are
On Thursday 13 August 2009 14:35:43 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing
and licensing! Don't forget that one.
The benefit == increased revenue to the company
Shachar, licensing is a cost, but it's also a benefit. If you happen
to be the person
Hi,
I am trying to access http://no2bio.org/home/ via FF 3.5 under Ubuntu and I get:
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
invalid or unsupported form of compression.
* Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
The
Hi,
I just bought the above mentioned phone. Does anyone knows a good
software which replaces it's 2 in 1 software so the phone can sync
with Skype the contacts?
Thanks,
Hetz
--
Skepticism is the lazy person's default position.
my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi,
I just bought the above mentioned phone. Does anyone knows a good
software which replaces it's 2 in 1 software so the phone can sync
with Skype the contacts?
Thanks,
Hetz
Could you elaborate on it ? (lsusb).
You might take a look on usbph module (provide the
41 matches
Mail list logo
