Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-04 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2021-04-04 1:18 a.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > As for erosion: consider that this sector that MS dominates is an > ever-shrinking piece of the IT pie. PC gaming has to compete with > dedicated consoles and the looming VR. Microsoft does extremely well with its XBox product line,

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread ac via talk
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 11:59:07 -0400 Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2021-04-04 11:45 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2021-04-04 11:41 a.m., ac via talk wrote: > >> seems real, Docket No. 21 cv 31, US District Court of the Virgin > >> Islands but could also just be some free marketing,

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2021-04-04 11:45 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: On 2021-04-04 11:41 a.m., ac via talk wrote: seems real, Docket No. 21 cv 31, US District Court of the Virgin Islands but could also just be some free marketing, a stunt etc Courts tend to frown on that sort of thing, especially since

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2021-04-04 11:41 a.m., ac via talk wrote: seems real, Docket No. 21 cv 31, US District Court of the Virgin Islands but could also just be some free marketing, a stunt etc Courts tend to frown on that sort of thing, especially since this matter was resolved years ago, in the Supreme

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread ac via talk
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 11:21:22 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2021-04-04 11:08 a.m., Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2021-04-04 10:10 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: > >> The zombie has arisen again! > > The date on the article (April 1) makes me discount it. > How about a

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2021-04-04 11:08 a.m., Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2021-04-04 10:10 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: The zombie has arisen again! The date on the article (April 1) makes me discount it. How about a different date then?

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2021-04-04 10:10 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: The zombie has arisen again! The date on the article (April 1) makes me discount it. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the

Re: [GTALUG] flickering [was Has the graphics-card world gone mad?]

2021-04-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 10:26 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk > > Thanks for the more complete information. > > What the exact brand and model of your Radeon RX 550? Are you sure > that the HDMI port conforms to HDMI 2.x? > > Remember that I'm not an

Re: [GTALUG] WSL, threat or boon? [was Re:Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]]

2021-04-04 Thread ac via talk
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 09:05:28 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > If you needs are very very simple I doubt that there would be a > problem and if you don't care about intellectual freedom run WSL- - - > - I think that as your needs get more complex the more you need to > have computational

Re: [GTALUG] flickering [was Has the graphics-card world gone mad?]

2021-04-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk Thanks for the more complete information. What the exact brand and model of your Radeon RX 550? Are you sure that the HDMI port conforms to HDMI 2.x? Remember that I'm not an expert. Jose Dias' experiment seems worthwhile. | The left (HDMI) screen will

[GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

2021-04-04 Thread James Knott via talk
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Re: [GTALUG] WSL, threat or boon? [was Re:Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]]

2021-04-04 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 8:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | I do have an interest in current events tho. What I see most recently is > | that RMS called out canonical for surveillance capitalism and bashed WSL > | for being a ploy to undermine free

[GTALUG] WSL, threat or boon? [was Re:Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]]

2021-04-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Russell Reiter via talk | I do have an interest in current events tho. What I see most recently is | that RMS called out canonical for surveillance capitalism and bashed WSL | for being a ploy to undermine free software. I missed or forgot that. I guess he expressed this in 2017 (it

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-04 Thread ac via talk
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 04:44:40 -0400 Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > I changed the original subject because I was just trying to limit the > list liabilities, in case of a libel suit. Not that Stallman would > ever read Evans' post labeling him incel. But this was my reason for > changing the

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:44 PM Alvin Starr wrote: > On 4/2/21 10:45 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 10:13 PM Alvin Starr via talk, > wrote: > >> On 4/2/21 2:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> >> Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and >>