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Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Monday, May 19, 2003When You're Dreaming, You Feel Alive
Does it matter whether or not we are in Plato's Cave The Matrix?
The Edge. Martin Rees. "All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics...But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation." [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Ah, gnosis.
2:43:26 PM # Google It!
MSFT buys UNIX?
Think again, oh Writer of Headlines. Dow Jones reports that Microsoft will buy UNIX from SCO — or at least their headline reports that. The body of the story is more accurate.
Microsoft has licensed the patents and source code; that is, they leased the property. This is quite a different beast from buying UNIX. Caldera bought UNIX, excepting the trademark, when it bought most of the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO).
The amusing bit about this is that Microsoft is licensing code which includes some derived from Xenix, which it recently stopped licensing to SCO.
12:16:58 PM # Google It!
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