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|By Nathan Hand
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|February 17, 2004 12:00 AM EST
Over the past 12 months The SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM has spilled over into new territory. What was initially a contract dispute between IBM and The SCO Group has now mutated into a war of words between The SCO Group and the Linux community. I am tired of the conflict and I propose a truce; a way forward for both our organisations.
Here are our terms of the truce:
- We fully recognize your right to defend your IP. We ask that you
recognize our right to defend our IP. This means obeying the terms of our
licenses. You must stop distributing Linux, Samba and GCC unless you are willing
to agree to the terms of our General Public License (GPL).
- You must stop attacking the General Public License (GPL). You have
spearheaded a massive publicity campaign to discredit our software license. You
have used all communication channels available to you: the press, the media,
private letters to American senators, open letters to businesses, conference
forums, financial reports, etc. There is no justification for your behaviour.
Your actions are harmful to both our organisations and you must stop
- Please do not accuse us of trying to destroy the economy. We are
not anti-capitalist. We believe Linux and the GPL will drive the next growth
spurt for the world economy. By donating the tools of software development and
office automation to the entire world - through software that we have written
and freely licensed - we believe there will be explosive growth in the quantity
and quality of software. Our software will be the enabling technology to spur
further growth in the industries where real economic wealth is created.
- Please do not use rhetoric to vilify our community. You have
claimed or implied that we are communists, terrorists, fanatical, vandals,
anti-American and opposed to intellectual property rights. None of that rhetoric
is true. Your defamation against us must stop immediately.
- Work with us to resolve the IP infringements you claim are in
Linux. It is counter-productive to allow any such problems to continue. The
way forward for both our organisations is for The SCO Group's IP to be removed
from Linux, if there is truly an infringement.
- Limit your disputes with IBM, Novell and Red Hat to the court room.
You will receive fair compensation, if the courts graciously rule in your
favour. Do not try and extract compensation from the users of Linux. We have
done nothing wrong - the blame, if any, lies squarely with IBM - so we do not
deserve to be treated so unfairly.
- Stop telling the public that you can charge a fee for Linux. You
may charge whatever you like for your own intellectual property, but you may not
disobey the terms of the General Public License that we have chosen for Linux.
Our license specifically requires no-fee licensing for our intellectual
property. You are violating our intellectual property rights by attempting to
charge a fee for the use of Linux.
- You have stated many times that intellectual property is more valuable when it can be protected and grown. We agree with that statement. But we cannot protect and grow Linux - our intellectual property - while it is contaminated with The SCO Group's intellectual property. You must immediately remove the obstacles you have created to prevent us from protecting and growing our intellectual property.
Though I might represent a vanishingly small percentage of the Linux community, I still believe you are a reasonable man. You have a valuable asset and you are seeking a return on investment for your asset. We can appreciate that; we feel the same way about our own intellectual property, though our ROI is more wide-reaching than mere dollars and cents.
But it is not reasonable for you to make profit at our expense. We have done nothing wrong. Punishing us for the alleged wrongdoings of IBM is entirely unreasonable behaviour. You must stop your efforts to decrease the intellectual property value in Linux; software that we have spent the past 13 years creating.
Linux is not your software to control. Linux is our intellectual property and we ask that you respect that.
Nathan Hand
|ashishK 02/17/04 10:57:34 AM EST
At Comdex on November 18, 1993, McBride stated that SCO would target Linux users in legal proceedings within 90 days--that gives McBride until Wednesday to begin legal proceedings.
|Arthur Guy 02/17/04 12:45:24 AM EST
See LINUX Magazine for July 2000. Micheal Cowpland interview
|coolmos 02/16/04 04:50:33 PM EST
Dear Mr. Hand.
Although i have to agree with you about offering a truce to an enemy is a good thing, i have to disagree on this particular case. As stated before, it is no good to offer a truce to an enemy with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Suppose you are a wealthy country, at war with a poor country in a battle that will cost you an enormous amount of money, people and work. Suppose the poor country is so damned poor they will die if they don't invade your country. Would you offer a truce ?
What you have done here is reach out to someone who is going to chop off your hand, and then your arm. I don't know about you, but i don't have any spare arms.
You are NOT dealing with a reasonable man here. He will say ANYTHING to get to the money. I am sorry to say it, but McBride deserves no truce. He deserves a defeat in trial, bigtime.
Oh, and a swift kick in the nuts, but i somehow doubt the US legal system provides THAT punishment.
This is really silly.. the whole market value of SCO is dependent on charging a license fee for linux. Without that hope, it will fall in a heap. Why does the author think SCO is interested in sitting down and resolving the infringements?? SCO does not want to resolve them.. they want the infringements to remain, and charge for them.
|Alex Roston 02/16/04 01:39:53 PM EST
Truce is unacceptable, and proposing a truce does nothing more than make us look weak. We are not weak. In fact, we hold all the cards, and that will be recognized in court.
However, I'd be willing to accept Darl's surrender.
|sbungay 02/16/04 12:59:19 PM EST
I agree with Bruce Perens. As the British people later learned a piece of paper proclaiming peace means nothing. All it did was buy Hitler time to gather his forces, lulling the British into a false sense of security before the battle really started. I would expect a similar double-cross from the likes of the current foe.
|Fecal Extrusion 02/16/04 12:31:19 PM EST
Hey everyone I have a great idea...
Lets all start a company, try and make money off Linux
How's that sound?
|Fecal Extrusion 02/16/04 12:06:16 PM EST
I have sad news...
HOWEVER, I wouldn't put it past a certain other BALL-LESS
Why don't you just retire NOW, and go play golf or
I should patent/copyright the letters S, C and O, and deny
|Rand 02/16/04 12:05:14 PM EST
Nathan, I can understand your feelings, but I don't remember you asking me or the rest of the "community".
If you want to speak for yourself and propose a truce, do it, but don't speak for anyone else if you don't have their direct approval.
|Jacek Piskozub 02/16/04 09:41:48 AM EST
If Groklaw is right, there will be a end user suit before the end of this week. In this case, your letter is a proff of good will that cannot stop the inevitable war.
|John Collins 02/16/04 08:49:57 AM EST
I don't think the battle will go on for another 14 months. The IBM lawsuit will collapse quite soon as SCO don't have any evidence to support it. IBM's countersuit will probably win by default. The Novell case will be dismissed pretty soon too. Maybe even the Red Hat case will wake up.
They might thrash around with some end-user suits but they'll all fail in the end.
All of these things will adversely affect SCO as their own stock filings admit. Finally the bottom will fall out of their stock scam.
It won't be as fast or quite so conclusive as everyone would like but it'll be a lot shorter than 14 months. I'd bet serious money that Darl is no longer at SCO (if it still exists) by the end of 2004.
|Nathan Hand 02/16/04 08:38:10 AM EST
I think some people have been confused by my letter. Some people are accusing me of capitulating, of begging for defeat at the moment of victory, and even questioning my motives!
I'd like to remind everybody that The SCO Group is not in litigation with the Linux community. The SCO Group is in litigation with IBM, Novell and Red Hat (and it seems certain that The SCO Group will lose all three cases). A truce between The SCO Group and the Linux community
I'd also point out that in a war of words there is no winner; there are only losers. The image of Linux is being harmed even though we have the facts on our side. The general media doesn't care about the facts, they care about the controversy. The SCO vs IBM lawsuit doesn't even begin for another 14 months. Although I'm certain The SCO Group will be defeated, should we suffer 14 more months of negative publicity?
My proposed truce would put an end to the negative publicity *now*. It brings The SCO Group into compliance with the General Public License *now*. It removes all the fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding the legal status of Linux *now*. IBM, Novell and Red Hat can pick over the bloody carcass of The SCO Group in 14 months or more, but I want
Bear in mind that IBM cares about IBM, Novell cares about Novell, Red Hat cares about Red Hat, but I care about Linux. I see Linux being harmed by The SCO Group's actions. The lawsuits will destroy The SCO Group but the damage being inflicted on Linux must stop *now*.
|Who cares 02/16/04 08:21:01 AM EST
Why would the Linux community want a truce.
|John Collins 02/16/04 07:25:18 AM EST
I am sure that Darl knows as well as anyone else that his claims against Linux are a fraud. He's painted himself into a corner though and it's going to cost him far to much to back down now on any point.
I'd want to see SCO completely defeated on every issue. Otherwise people will always be saying that there is some questionmark over Linux because "they did a deal".
|Dick Busch 02/16/04 07:11:09 AM EST
Who is this Nathan Hand, and why was this preposterous, irrational proposal given column space?!? Thank goodness he hasn't any standing comparable to the ignoble, foolhardy and criminally-naive Neville Chamberlain.
Sorry, but I seriously question your motives in this affair, Nathan. Sure, be a "Suzy Creamcheese" in your personal life if you want! There, blind, dumb naivite' is all well and good, but THIS - an overture from the OSS community at this juncture - plays *perfectly* to a Linux-embattled M$ and a suicidal proxy - SCO - that is about to get blown out of the water. It's all over but the paperwork, hence IBM's determination to grind SCO into dust.
Now, why should the Linux community suck up to entities that attack us with blind, pernicious savagery? Why capitulate now?!? That is what suing for peace represents, which is utterly irresponsible.
You can't reason with the unreasonable! Therefore, you don't.
"Peace," in the abstract, is NOT what you want with criminal, sociopathic entities you are very close to defeating. Having established that SCO is without anything but a few M$ bucks and a lot of chutzpah, it no longer represents a genuine threat to the Linux movement, IMHO.
A no less important issue in my view is to what extent did M$ have a role in SCO's Kamikazi behaviors? That potentially explosive RICO/antitrust issue becomes forever obscured if SCO is allowed to live.
I also question the editorial decision to run this preposterous idea of a truce - on these terms - in the first place (unless anyone can propose anything here, in which case I apologize in advance... =P).
|Jacek Piskozub 02/16/04 01:56:07 AM EST
I believe Aragorn's words from "The Two Towers" are very appropriate here:
Aragorn: A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas!
[cited after http://moviez.webz.cz/scriptz/ring2.html]
|Bruce Perens 02/16/04 12:13:13 AM EST
Unfortunately, this is very naive. As someone who has spent a lot of time on the SCO matter, I can state with total surety that SCO's management are carrying out a stock-kiting scheme at our expense. You can't make a truce with criminals, there is not the slightest chance that they will honor it.Bruce
|Daniel R. Haney 02/15/04 09:42:33 PM EST
No truce. No quarter asked. None given.
It is not enough that SCO halt their attempts to appropriate (aka "steal") the public commons. They must be brought to account and punished. Nothing less will secure the future of FOSS than a uniform and aggressive intolerance of SCO and their ilk.
To relent now is to give up freedom for the convenience of a respite.
|Nathan Hand 02/15/04 08:37:27 PM EST
"3) How do you like SCO's chances of prevailing in their attack on the GPL? If the answer is "not much", why in the world should _we_ go for a truce?"
Hi Jim,
I think a truce is important because even though I have no doubt IBM will win the court case purely on merit, in the intervening 14 months (!) until the trial begins, and who knows how long until the trial ends, we will be subjected to press releases from The SCO Group attacking the GPL and accusing the Linux community of all manner of illegal and juvenille acts. This harms us in the short-term, and maybe harms us in the long-term if the "sh*t sticks".
"Judged on purely practical grounds, it seems to me that the free software community has little to gain and a lot to lose by attempting to make peace with SCO. "
I think peace is always justified, even if it is with your worst enemy. All that is being gained by this constant back and forth of "they stole our code", "did not", "did too" is that the image of Linux is being tarnished. Even though I know we are innocent, the Linux community will emerge from this fiasco as the clear loser. The quicker we can act to limit the damage being done by The SCO Group's PR team, the better it is for all of us.
This next piece isn't addressed to you. Another person made a comment that I shouldn't have used the term "intellectual property". I debated this with myself, aware of the vague umbrella nature of the phrase, but decided that the phrase was justified in this case. The SCO Group initially sued IBM over alleged trade secret infringements and breach of contract. Now The SCO Group wants to drop their claims of trade secret infringement and instead sue IBM for copyright infringement. They have also hinted that Unix "methods" are at stake here. So given that The SCO Group is talking about or has talked about trade secrets, copyrights and methods, I considered "intellectual property" to be an appropriate phrase to cover all the bases.
|BSDProtector 02/15/04 07:25:13 PM EST
> "I still believe you are a reasonable man"
Keep dreaming my friend. Keep dreaming...
|Jim Easter 02/15/04 07:03:02 PM EST
I have three questions (OK, five with the followups) for Nathan Hand:
Judged on purely practical grounds, it seems to me that the free software community has little to gain and a lot to lose by attempting to make peace with SCO.
|David Mohring 02/15/04 06:01:45 PM EST
Peace For Our Time
The following is the wording of the printed statement that Neville Chamberlain waved as he stepped off the plane on 30 September, 1938 after the Munich Conference had ended the day before:
"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.
Chamberlain read the above statement in front of 10 Downing St. and said:
"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time...
The SGO Group's rhetoric attacks against the legal validity of the GNU General Public License started only after the SGO Group signed an aggreement with Microsoft for the licensing of unnecessary rights.
The SCO group and Microsoft claim that the millions of dollars is payment for the right to license the Unix API in Microsoft's Services For Unix ( SFU ) product.
A bit of History, Softway Systems wrote the NT DDL POSIX compatablity Layer in 1995, and Microsoft aquired Softway in 1999. The OS level was written to the POSIX standards, for which AT&T and later Novell relinquished all copyright claims for for both the ANSI/IEEE (POSIX) and Federal Information Processing Standards Publication FIPS 151-2 (POSIX.1) and FIPS 189 (POSIX.2) standards. Microsoft should know this because they themselves participated in the FIPS roundtables. The SCO Group itself admits that it does not hold any of the AT&T/USL patents, any of which would be well past it's seventeen years, available now royalty-free and secured with decades of published prior-art.
Microsoft's SFU and Interix products are in no way dependent upon the IP that SCO holds.
Microsoft has extended SFU without further violating SCO's ( now claimed as Novell's ) intellectual property. Microsoft embrace and extend the source from the unencumbered OpenBSD varient...
IMO the only real reason for Microsoft paying the SCO Group is to finance the SCO Groups Anti-GPL,Anti-Linux,Anti-open source campaign.
Darl McBride and Co have permanently damaged the reputation of the SCO brand. No one is going to want to deal with an organization which continually threatens its own customer base with legal action. In a search for an exit strategy for its major stakeholder, the Canopus Group, and later to fraudulently boost the overinflated stock price, Darl McBride and Co have decimated the future of Calera Linux and their branches of the AT&T/USL/Novell/SCO Unix. But because Microsoft is now the SCO Groups largest source of revenue, Darl McBride and Co are effectively locked in a course diametrically opposed to its own future existance.
Linux developers and advocates have made repeated overtures to the SCO Group, requesting that the SCO Group come clean and show the offending lines of code along with proof of "ownership" by the SCO Group of the violated code. The SCO Group refuses to do so, even when it is a legal requirement to do so when seeking damages.
In the press, Darl McBride and Co have repeatedly contradicted their own past claims and statements in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain it's stock price and damage Linux.
As with Chamberlain, if you entered into negotiation and even signed a treaty with the SCO group, Darl and Co would just use it as propaganda, an admission of guilt from the Linux kernel developers and users. In the meantime the SCO group would just continue spinning Microsoft's FUD and outright lying.
|Joe Buck 02/15/04 04:48:04 PM EST
I don't want a truce with SCO. I want SCO to be defeated.
I don't want SCO to start respecting the GPL as part of a "truce". I want them to start respecting it because a court so orders, so that never again can someone claim that courts have not ruled on the GPL's validity.
|Filippo 02/15/04 03:28:49 PM EST
The term "intellectual property" should be banned from Free Software people's mouth. It is sad that this man used that expression in a letter written on behalf of the Free Software Community. I do not buy that letter, even if I am actually a Free Software developer.
SCO should do one thing: recognise that the GPL is a valid license, and that Free Software is not Public Domain software. I proudly claim copyright on my work, although I let people read/change/study/distribute it freely. This process is called Copyleft by the GPL'ling Free Software developers.
Thank you,
Filippo Rusconi
Personaly I don't know how this got as far as it has without SCO showing the stolen code to start with. And when it is shown and proven not to have been stolen, then McBride and the whole bunch should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for perpatrating this sham just to boost profits.
|Rich 02/15/04 03:12:35 PM EST
To quote the weak-minded Neville Chamberlain who tried to do a deal with Hitler: "Peace in our time" ? Give us a break. I'll be satisfied when McBride is personally bankrupted and goes down for a few year's jail time for slander, misappropriation and securities fraud. Let this be a lesson to his masters at Microsoft who paid for the shady actions of this mercenary.
|D. Jeff Dionne 02/15/04 03:12:15 PM EST
I don't think it is appropriate to call for a truce with such a distructive organization. More appropriate is to make certain that Canopy, Yarrow and whom ever else is involved in this massive, illegal stock scam are completely discredited and prosecuted for the crimes they have commited.
They have no intellectual property, period. Be patient, IBM will use the legal system and testimony of those who were or still are close to them to make sure justice is done. All that will be left in the end is a Caldera :-)
|Dave 02/15/04 01:44:56 PM EST
After reading the transcript of McBride's speech at Harvard, I realized that they will never remove their "property" from the Linux Sources.
Their argument is that some confidential Unix SV code got into Linux, and if they tell you what it is it won't be confidential anymore. Because they want to preserve their rights, the only alternative is to completely take ownership of Linux!
Pretty clever, huh?
|plr 02/15/04 12:16:04 PM EST
Please replace "IP" with "copyright". Software patents should not be acknowledged. Even if SCO doesn't have them, other companies do, and they can damage free software much more than SCO.
|Jacek Piskozub 02/15/04 11:53:34 AM EST
This thing has gone too far. Let's face it: SCO declared total war against GPL, and more generally and the open source community without any trace of evidence of any SCO IP stolen by anyone (unless we believe their viral interpretation of the Unix license: every code ported to Unix becomes SCO property).
Therefore, I believe that the only the kind only truce we can propose now is unconditional capitulation of SCO.
|Mojo Nichols 02/15/04 10:21:26 AM EST
Truce! It will work itself out in court. SCO and other jerk filled corporations would benefit from a truce at this point. They could go back to their corners and gear up for another PR onslaught. If they did it with in a years time the average American would see it as one big giant headache. I can see the MS PR now, buy our software, it has numerous security flaws out of the box, but you don't have to worry about legal problems. This battle needs to make it clear that said corporations can't steal peoples copyrighted works. And it will, SCO doesn't have leg to stand on.
Give me Linux (and the GPL) or give me death.
And my next computer will be an IBM with RH and SUSE installed on it.
|StormReaver 02/15/04 07:45:07 AM EST
an insight into Mr McBride came in his address last week to the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology:
"I...sat in a room a little larger than this about a year ago out on a campus at Brigham Young University, and the CEO of a leading open source company came out there and spoke. And I was kind of interested to go and hear what he was talking about. So this was a competitor of ours, and I was actually kind of interested in going and breaking bread with him and talking about how can we move the ball down the field together? How can we work together?
As I went to hear his speech, I was sitting up there amidst a bunch of students. I didn't look like a student, which I wasn't, therefore it made sense I didn't look like one. But as he spoke, there were a couple of things that were striking to me. The first thing that was striking is he got up and started talking about how the copyright system in America was outdated, that the copyright laws had been on the books for hundreds of years, and they were totally out of sync with what was going on in the digital age, and he was calling on students to write your Congressperson, lobby Congress to, sort of, overturn the current copyright laws.
We need to get these copyright laws out. This DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- you're all familiar with that, I'm sure -- is a disaster, we've gotta get it out. And it was interesting for me as a CEO of a company who has very important copyrights to hear. The attack was not on us directly. It was, We've gotta get rid of copyrights, because that plays into what we want to do with our open source system. So that was interesting to me. Second thing that was interesting was he said, one of the questions along the way was, Who do you compete with? What are you selling in the marketplace?"
(This is from the Groklaw transcript of the Q & A session.
|adelayde 02/15/04 07:03:06 AM EST
Surely we could just start a fund and if every Linux user, supporter, developer etc world-wide put somewhere between 1 and 10 dollars into it we'd have enough cash to simply buy out SCO, own UNIX, sack McBride, make all rights to anything SCO has public domain, drop all law suits and then put the forlorn company out of its and our misery?
|SaysWho? 02/15/04 06:46:10 AM EST
Says Ghandi that's who!
"An eye for and eye makes the world blind." -- M. Gandhi
Plus Einstein. Rember him?
"There is always a better way to do everything. It's up to us to find it." -- A. Einstein
|SaysWho? 02/15/04 06:44:14 AM EST
"Compromise is never anything but an
|T. Traub 02/15/04 06:43:12 AM EST
Sure let's have a trcue. Everything SCO has been doing has benefitted MS in some way.
I guess MS learned a lesson from the Netscape debacle; stay just this side of the law and let someone else do your dirty work for you.
|Pharmboy 02/15/04 06:33:43 AM EST
Our company (less than 25 stations) was beginning a migration before the FUD started. The boss approached me with concerns, and is warmer toward MS now. Our biggest concern is applications, not SCO, but the lawsuit has put a small shard of glass in his brain regarding Linux. I don't think it will make a huge difference, but if it REALLY came down to a 50%/50% decision, it may be what puts him over the edge.
After I showed him the Slashdot article about Ernie Ball and showed him some of the terms of MS's new licensing (plus the costs) he is not excited about MS. We are running an ANCIENT network, and MUST upgrade in the next few months. He didn't like the idea about auditing, or fines for accidental non-compliance. (we don't use any apps that would have us pirating anyway, just accounting stuff) I will forward to him the article on Office here on the front page as well. We are still using Office 97, and have no reason to upgrade, except maybe to Open Office :D Of course, now he is slightly leary of open source stuff, and he's really not a PHB, but a pretty reasonable boss.
In a nutshell: Its making a small difference to us, but MAYBE enough to push the boss away from open source software in general. This is making my job hard, because now i have to look at both MS and Open Source solutions for this network upgrade.
|insomoniakl 02/15/04 06:30:56 AM EST
There have been'rolling' reprecussions to those lawsuits that are still rippling down the time line as affected companies try to recover from the damage done.
For instance: A small organization that was working with a consultancy is considering Linux and a series of service agreements. With all the fear-mongering happening due to SCO's claims, the smaller organization is scared away from Linux and decides to stick with a vanilla Microsoft business environment. What happens?
The organization takes a substancial financial hit to pay for the usual Windows license agreements (OS, applications, etc.)
We have to prevent a SCO from doing this again in the future. While some may claim that it infringes on their rights to restrict business practices, there should be limits. I've noticed, here in North America, companies have too much freedom to do pretty much whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want, for almost whatever reason. I'm sure many (if not most) of you share the same sentiments.
|puzzzled 02/15/04 05:43:22 AM EST
Not McBride and SCO with their frivolous lawsuits, not Microsoft with their billions in cash reserves, not silly US Patent law, not Digital Restrictions Management in BIOS; no one can stop open source now - profit motive and customer demand are going to grind those things into the dust as surely as the automobile did to tack and harness shops.
The internet is global and the desktop is strategic. I mean military/industrial strategic - look at the Pacific rim and their government's backing of their own Linux distribution. Europe is more low key about it but they're equally pleased to have local boys making a more stable product and freeing them from possible NSA/CIA/FBI sanctioned intrusion.
|AynSCO 02/15/04 05:36:19 AM EST
In a lot of respects, SCO's behavior is a lot like that of James Taggert in Atlas Shrugged - especially when James got involved behind the scenes in attempting to profit from Francisco d'Anconia's Mexican mine venture.
For those who aren't familiar with the work, the book was author Ayn Rand's "comprehensive" embodiement of her objectivism philosophy into a novel form. While objectivism has its issues and is certainly incomplete in many areas, it provides a contract philosophy basis that is probably best represented by the emergence of the open source world. In a nutshell, the only legitimate way for two people to interact is on the basis of trade, where each is receiving what they perceive as a legitimate and appropriate value for the trade. Coercion, extortation, theft (taking without a consensual trade), intimidation, etc. are all inappropriate forms.
|bbbbb2 02/15/04 05:33:29 AM EST
Give up, guys. Darl won't be stopped until he's either rich or passed on to the great closed source world in the sky.
|SCOsh5y 02/15/04 05:27:29 AM EST
So when will Darl do you think stop disparaging the GPL by referring to "copyleft", associating it with "leftists" and implying to those without a grasp of geek irony that it seeks to annihilate copyright rather than (in the minds of many advocates) balance it.
|Flower 02/15/04 05:25:06 AM EST
Let's all bear in mind:
SCO is embroiled in multiple litigations and have yet to prove any misappropriations of copyrights that they might not even own.
Linux and OSS might be free for distribution but multi-billion dollar industries have developed for the deployment and support of these solutions.
The Copyright Code explictly allows for the trading of copyrighted works as an incentive. The GPL is essentially a license utilizing this incentive.
Owners of copyright can and do license their code under multiple licenses. GhostScript anyone?
For a small initial investment of money and greater investment of personal time OSS allows a self-motivated individual the opprotunity to improve their job prospects and station in life without resorting to software piracy - an excellent example of the proverbial American Dream.
|mmurphy000 02/15/04 05:16:53 AM EST
By that logic:
Companies based on delivering low-end basic services, like fast-food restaurants, are just not going to be as profitable as companies selling unique services, like fancy restaurants. If they try to be, someone will come along and do it cheaper and just as well. Which is why McDonald's went out of business on...huh, that example didn't work either.
Point is, there are many axes upon which firms can compete (brand, service level, price, etc.). Open source may hamper some of these axes, but so can other things (e.g., locating a high-end restaurant in a low-income neighborhood may be problematic), so there's no basis in making a general statement about business profitabliity
|rsilvergun 02/15/04 05:15:33 AM EST
Let's remember though that Open Source *is* going to drive down the value of software. It prevents lock-in while allowing practically anyone to enter the market for a relatively low capital investment. Perhaps worst of all (from a shareholder's perspective) it allows people to bypass the market entirely, getting the software to run their computers for free.
Companies based on Open source software are just not going to be as profitable as proprietary software companies with a lock on the market. If they try to be, someone will come along and do it cheaper and just as well.
|gaijin99 02/15/04 05:05:54 AM EST
SCO's position is that any GPLed software, if the GPL is declared invalid, would be released to the public domain. They want "free as in we can grab it and sell it for money" software. Free as in, you do the work, they take the profit and give you zilch, software. Darl and company doesn't just want IBM to give them billions, and every Linux user worldwide to give them $699. They want Linux, the FSF, and every single free software project on Earth dead and ruined. The reason we hackers are so opposed, in viscrial and emotional ways, to SCO's attack is because they are attempting to destroy what we've spent 20 years building.
|SCOwatcher 02/15/04 05:04:30 AM EST
SCO has argued both directly and indirectly that when the GPL is declared invalid, then any GPLed software will be in the public domain and not covered under ANY copyright protection.
As far as SCO's officers are concerned, they can use SAMBA or any other GPLed software however they want because its already in the public domain because the GPL is illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, and fattening.
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Calling a truce makes sense, even though as you say code that e.g. Andrew Tridgell writes for Samba cannot possibly be owned by SCO.
Samba code is released under the GPL. The GPL says, in effect, "I'm allowing you to use this code under a certain set of conditions". If the GPL is invalid, then basic copyright law will be in effect
SCO distributes Samba code, presumably under the GPL. I'm guessing that SCO hasn't negotiated a separate agreement with the Samba guys to distribute their code under some non-GPL arrangement
if SCO succeeds in getting the GPL rendered invalid (and that is unlikely since, in this example, it's the Samba guys saying "I'm gonna give you extra rights to use this provided you stick to these conditions..." which is a very common approach to licencing), then SCO is simply breaking basic copyright law in distributing Samba
In other words, if the GPL is valid, then SCO has no case. If the GPL is invalid, then SCO is breaking the copyright of lots of individual copyright holders. Either way, they lose.
How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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Wendy MacLeod
WENDY MACLEOD'S play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, and was produced by many theaters including The Magic Theater, Soho Rep, The Washington Shakespeare Company, The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and The Gate Theater in London. Her other works for the stage include Sin and Schoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered at The Goodman, Juvenilia and The Water Children, both of which premiered at Playwrights Horizons, and Things Being What They Are, which premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre, had an extended run at Steppenwolf in Chicago and will be produced by The Road Theatre in LA this spring. She was the first writer selected for The Writer's Room residency at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia, where she wrote Women in Jeopardy! which was selected for The Kilroys' List and will premiere at GEVA in February. The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky will open soon at ACT's Young Conservatory in San Francisco. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Salon, POETRY magazine and on NPR's All Things Considered. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she is the James E. Michael Playwright-in-Residence at Kenyon College and the Artistic Director of the Kenyon Playwrights Conference. Her plays are available through Dramatists Play Service and at Playscripts.com
|A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory performs
The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky | November 18–23,2014
by Wendy MacLeod
In this new play, co-commissioned by A.C.T. and His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, celebrated American playwright Wendy Macleod offers a lightning-quick comedy of the battles mostly off the field among a Scottish private school's rugby team. Status on the field equals status off the field as these rugged players (boys, girls, and the conflicted) fight for who rules. When two boys named Charles claim to be king, the game is ON! Macleod's characters are sharply focused, witty, and caustic in this hilarious contemporary story.
Performances take place at Theater at the Children's Creativity Museum, 221 4th Street, San Francisco.
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The campaign for the Effingham County commission at-large chairman is set, after Wendall Kessler captured the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary.
One of the Effingham County commission district seats up for election has been decided and voters in one district will make their choice in November.
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With a unanimous vote, the Effingham County commissioners approved a fiscal year 2013 budget Thursday night.
Polls in the partisan primaries will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, and there are new voting places for many precincts.
If the Effingham Parkway is going to be built, a former state Senate leader said Wednesday, then voters will have to pass the transportation special purpose local option sales tax next week.
Effingham County Sheriff's deputies apprehended a suspect who was wanted on multiple charges following a pursuit Wednesday evening.
A 5-year-old Effingham County boy remains in the pediatric intensive care unit at Memorial Health University Medical Center after being attacked Tuesday by a neighbor's dog.
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With a unanimous vote, the Effingham County commissioners approved a fiscal year 2013 budget Thursday night.
A 5-year-old Effingham County boy is in serious condition after being attacked by a neighbor's dog shortly before noon today, according to the Effingham County Sheriff's Office.
"It feels good on the inside," 10-year-old Ayden Meadows said as he served lemonade Friday afternoon at The Learning Treehouse in Rincon.
The Effingham Industrial Development Authority is set to welcome a new tenant into its industrial park.
The city of Springfield is exploring ways to have work done on the Mars Theater.
Gov. Nathan Deal announced that Georgia was awarded $6.75 million in federal grant money to support re-entry services for rehabilitated offenders. The grants were administered by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Governor's Office of Transition, Support and Re-entry (GOTSR) and the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).
The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police major accident investigation team is looking into a three-vehicle wreck that claimed the life of a Savannah man Tuesday afternoon.
Effingham County commissioners and Effingham Health System representatives may try to revise a deal between the two groups that enabled the hospital to embark on its modernization and expansion.
An Effingham County man died from the injuries he suffered when his motorcycle collided with a sport utility vehicle Friday afternoon.
An Effingham County man died from injuries sustained in a Friday evening crash on Highway 119, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
A sand mine operator was granted two more years to finish digging out his property, after county commissioners voted to deny a rezoning application but allow the extension.
The Effingham County Sheriff's Office has joined county paramedics and Rincon firefighters at their station on Goshen Road Extension.
Rincon City Council members approved a final site plan for a proposed gas station to be built adjacent to Walmart.
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Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer and lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. (More than breast, colorectal and prostate cancer combined!) A proper medical history should always include a smoking history and medical care should include therapies (and ongoing encouragement) to stop if a patient is still smoking. But what about screening and follow up? Despite advances in diagnosis, staging and treatment, only 18% of patients with lung cancer are still alive five years after diagnosis.There is an understandable goal by all of us to do better…
An article published in the November 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has provided data that helps improve smoking mortality statistics; it demonstrates the efficacy of screening with low-dose CT scans of the lungs. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), enrolled more than 50,000 persons at 33 US centers. They included individuals who were 55 to 74 years of age with a smoking history of at least 30 pack years. (That means that they smoked one pack for 30 years or two packs for 15 years or, and I am not sure how one does this…3 packs for 10 years.) They included both current smokers and former smokers who had quit within the previous 15 years.
The findings were very significant. There was a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose CT scan diagnosis and treatment versus those who were diagnosed with lung cancer by simple chest x-ray. In absolute terms, this translated to approximately three fewer deaths from lung cancer per 1000 high risk persons who underwent low-dose CT scanning.This is as great a benefit as that reported for breast cancer mortality with annual mammography screening among women 50 to 59 years of age.
There were false positives…(The scan can pick up abnormalities that are not cancer). To decrease the false positive results and unnecessary biopsies and/or surgery, participants found to have a nodule were followed with additional CT screening and only when a lesion got bigger or more worrisome was a biopsy performed. In the end, relatively few of the surgeries (24%) were performed in patients who had benign nodules.
What also got my attention was the fact that screening with low-dose CT was much more cost-effective among women then among men. Scanning was also more likely to have a mortality impact in the groups with the highest risk of lung cancer such as those who were still smoking and those who were older.
And now a very recent headline: Medicare just announced that they "will cover annual screenings for lung cancer for older Americans with a long history of heavy smoking". They "will extend coverage for CT scans to Medicare beneficiaries who smoked at least a pack a day for 30 years or the equivalent, even if they quit as long as 15 years ago". According to their announcement the scans will be free for recipients and "the coverage would apply to beneficiaries through age 74."
Bottom line: If you are a former smoker of the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or, heaven forbid, you are a current smoker and you're over the age of 55, talk to your physician about getting a low dose CT scan of your lungs. Based on the recent studies and the fact that Medicare has announced that they will pay, this should be affordable (if you are not yet on Medicare) or free if you are 65 or older. Too bad the cost of future CT scans are not charged to tobacco companies every time they sell a pack of their poison!


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Barclays Capital
"No fringe benefits but people friendly "
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- Senior Management
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I have been working at Barclays Capital as a contractor (more than an year)
Good pay, people are relatively friendly to work with, not as beaureucratic as other IBs I've worked in
No staff benefits - i.e. no teabags or milk! everyone has to keep stashes of teabags, sugar, salt, pepper in their drawers, it's ridiculous
Little things like some snacks or employees benefits like team events make people happier when you don't give them bonuses
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2. Quality of projects are good.
3. People are helpful and supportive.
4. Pay is market competitive.Cons
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THOMASVILLE, GA. — While heightened competitive activity required Flowers Foods, Inc. to promote its products more aggressively in several markets, the company is still poised to hit its sales and earnings guidance, said George E. Deese, chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Deese commented on the outlook during a May 27 conference call in connection with the release of first-quarter financial results. Earnings at Flowers Foods in the first quarter ended April 25 were $37,381,000, equal to 40c per share on the common stock, up 4.5% from $35,783,000, or 39c per share, in the same period last year.
Despite the gain, earnings per share fell just short of analysts' expectations of 41c per share, and the company's stock fell nearly 8% in early New York Stock Exchange trading on May 27.
Net sales were $807,007,000, up 19% from $676,707,000 in the first quarter offiscal 2008. The jump in sales was attributed to a 12 percentage point gain from acquisitions, a 6.8 point boost from favorable pricing/mix and a 0.5 point gain in volume. Flowers said the strong sales reflected strength in its branded retail business, which grew 15% in the quarter.
"We are pleased with the results this quarter," Mr. Deese said. "Our team delivered sales growth in excess of 19% and earnings in line with our expectation in spite of headwinds from the economy and competitive pressures. We are particularly pleased with the results considering we faced continued challenges in the quarter from higher input costs compared to the same time frame last year. Our branded retail sales grew 14.8% in the quarter, evidence that Flowers' brands are performing well in recessionary conditions and a testament to our product quality, brand strength and execution in the marketplace."
Gross margin in the first quarter was 46.8% of sales, versus 48.3% in the same quarter in 2008. The decrease in margin was due primarily to an increase in ingredient costs, Flowers said, though start-up costs associated with the company's new bakery in Bardstown, Ky., also was a factor in the decline.
Elaborating on competitive activity in the marketplace, Mr. Deese recalled that he had noted in the company's February conference call that Flowers would be "watching the market closely" and would step up promotions if needed.
"By mid-quarter we did add promotional pricing in many markets, and we continue to do so where marketing conditions warrant," he said.
He was quick to point out that the promotional activity was not triggered by a large consumer move toward private label. To the contrary, he said the baking industry continues to perform well versus other parts of the food industry when it comes to branded product preserving market share. He spoke at some length about Flowers' experience with store brands in the markets it serves.
"In the I.R.I. (Information Resources, Inc.) South market, private label brands have about a 40% share of units and about a 25% to 26% share of dollars, and that is roughly the level it has been for a number of years," he said. "In other food categories, private label growth has been characterized as dramatic over the past year."
In bread, private label gained less than one point in dollar and unit sales over the past year, he said.
With the growth of its branded business over time, Mr. Deese said private label has come to account for a small percentage of the company's sales — 16% in the first quarter.
Mr. Deese said he had been asked by analysts whether the stepped-up promotional activity would "threaten" the company's ability to hit its earnings guidance.
He expressed optimism that the company had a wide range of tools to "offset any earnings dilution from promotional activity."
Looking forward, Mr. Deese said heavier promotions likely will continue until market conditions begin to "level out," but he added, "I personally don't think any of this is long lasting."
In a breakdown of results by segment, first-quarter EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) was $56,930,000 in the Direct-Store-Delivery segment, up 7% from $53,392,000 in the same period a year ago. Sales were $668,275,000, up 21%.
Mr. Deese said internal sales data show the company's products and brands outperforming the fresh bread category overall. The company's Whitewheat and Nature's Own brands "achieved strong growth." He was particularly pleased by the brands' acceptance in the company's new western markets.
In the company's Warehouse Delivery segment, EBIT in the quarter was $14,224,000, up 72% from $8,259,000. Sales were $138,732,000, up 12%.
Flowers left its projected sales growth for the full year unchanged at 12.6% to 14.5%, with acquisitions accounting for 7 or 7.5 points of the increase. Sales for the year are expected to total $2,720 million to $2,765 million. Earnings per share were forecast at $1.37 to $1.48, which would represent a gain of 7% to 16% from fiscal 2008.
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Hi, this is my first post and my first home brew, I am makeing a german weiss (from a kit) and I let it ferment for alittle over 1 week. then I split it into 2 buckets and put bannanas in 1 and did nothing to the other, I let this sit for a week and a half. I checked and there was no fermenation activeity so tonight i deceided to bottle. Well when i moved the buckets to my kitchen they started fermenting like crazy (no temp. difference from where they were). why is it doing this and is it ok to continue to bottle?
Thanks in advance for any help!
#1 Welcome...go introduce yourself.
#2 Do you have a hydrometer? If not you'll need one. Before You Brew Again.
#3 Chances are you are not seeing fermentation...You are seeing Co2 escaping from solution because you are agitating your beer by moving it. Fermentation should be complete, but the only true measure of that is a hydrometer reading....actually 2 of them showing a steady reading a few days apart.
Give it about 2 or 3 weeks in bottles....I'll bet its good stuff.
I do have a hydrometer but unfortunately I forgot to take a OG reading (first brew and all) so now im stuck with sanitized equipment and the question of do i bottle or not
Take a gravity today..take another in 3 days. If they are the same (Regardless of what the OG was), bottle away.
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Tom Budden
British DJ's deep house style comes to 360° Discuss this article
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Back in the UK and under his own name, Budden has played top clubs including Ministry of Sound, Matter at the 02 and Cocoon, as well as heading up his own label, Alive Recordings, and hosting a long-running show on Proton Radio. With a modern driving sound that never loses sight of dance-ability, we think Budden's deep house style will work wonders at 360°.
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Creating a Climate for Change
Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change
Edited by Susanne C. Moser
Edited by Lisa Dilling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print Publication Year: 2007
Online Publication Date:August 2009
Online ISBN:9780511535871
Hardback ISBN:9780521869232
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Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535871.031
Subjects: Climatology and Climate Change, Environmental policy, Economics and Law
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Maybe a president or Congressional leader will, upon reading a report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences or hearing a plea from the leader of another country or even glancing at this book, become convinced of the need to take substantial action to address the dangers of global warming. Once convinced, this leader would build broad political coalitions with other political figures based on reasoned appreciation of a real environmental problem, and devise a comprehensive set of policy reforms to reduce America's key role in promoting global warming. Within a few years, the United States would develop and implement a range of policies to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, including dedicated taxes, regulatory reforms, and large-scale initiatives in renewable energy and energy conservation.
This could happen, but that's not the way major changes in American history have taken place before. Reasoned discourse needs a push. Elected officials, even presidents, are subject to an ever-expanding range of pressures and constraints, making substantial policy reform in any area exceedingly difficult. Further, the American Constitution established a governmental structure built to produce stability rather than innovation, solidity rather than responsiveness – in effect, a Humvee rather than a hybrid of government. But substantial, if sometimes unwelcome, innovations in policy have taken place in America, including (among others) the institution of a federal social safety net for the elderly in the 1930s, the establishment of a permanent and globally engaged military establishment in the 1940s, federal intervention in the cause of civil rights and women's rights in the 1950s and 1960s, and a broad retrenchment in government support for the less fortunate, commenced in the 1970s.
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Its not...It's not a Comic Book, it's a Manga.It's not a Cartoon, it's Anime.It's not Homosexual or Gay, its Yaoi.It's not Lesbian, its Yuri.It's not Porn, its Hentai.It's not a Costume, it's Cosplay.I'm not a Geek, I'm a Otaku.I'm not Crazy, I'm a Fangirl. - Zelda <3#supportinganimelovers
I DIDNT KNOW UNTIL NOW!!stole this from umadbro1960
Fother Mucker
thank you very much
i try my hardest


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it's a gerat cheap product! i use it twice a day and it totally upgraded my coffee! i ordered one for my friend as well. the color is very nice. looks exacly like the picture. two AA batterys that last for a decent time the part that goes inside the milk cannon be disconnected frrom the handle so it ... Read more
Hi. It is a very Good product. Frothes milk with no problem at all. Easly stored in the kitchen drawer due to it's small dimension and weight. The price is very cheap and you get almost the same result as the NESPRESSO AEROCHINO milk frother. By the way-a TIP: warm the milk in the microwave for about ... Read more
It works really good. It is very light, it may seems to be sleazy, but I'm using almost 5 days a week for around 2 months. It is also very easy to clean, just fulfill your glass with water and turn it on, done. Really worth its price. Nothing to complain, totally worth its price! I haven't tried with ... Read more