Unix Computer Technology News and Reviews

No business can survive without a website. With more and more people taking to online shopping, it becomes very imperative to ensure that you have a website and your website is designed such that it stands out in the crowd. All this means that there needs to be an edge on quality, content, and general user appeal in your web design.

ITRIX Technologies, a leading provider of web designing services suggests that it is important to keep in mind that while designing and running any commercial website, people should consider the customer first, and last. According to ITRIX Technologies, time is a precious commodity, and so a user friendly website can make all the difference. ITRIX Technologies further states that companies should avoid bells and whistles like too many flash files and other multi media when designing a website. According to ITRIX Technologies, a web design should also take into consideration factors for feedback. ITRIX Technologies suggests that while designing a website, companies should include a feedback form to collect user responses.

A well designed website, according to ITRIX Technologies, should that takes the user straight to where he wants to be. This is the foremost requisite while designing a website and also for a successful business.

ITRIX Technologies suggests that like all other things in life, the design should be simple and clear cut. According to ITRIX Technologies, make sure you do not have too many heavy files on your site. The longer it takes for a page to open, the greater the chances of the user moving away to the next site. A good web design should keep in mind such as foreground color and background color. ITRIX Technologies suggests that keep a light color for the background and a dark for the fonts. ITRIX Technologies also suggests that keep the font style simple and don’t use the fancy one as reading on computer is not the same as reading on the screen.

According to ITRIX Technologies, once you have your website designed, up and running make sure you have constant updates, the latest information, to ensure the end user believes in what he is seeing and the information provided is up to date. That is why ITRIX Technologies feels that it is important to have a web design that does not leave the user out in the open, but rather it should make them feel confident in the business aspect of the website. If not, they will move on to another site offering the same goods and services.

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An SCO presentation shown in Las Vegas on August 18th alleged infringement by the Linux developers. The presentation, in Microsoft PowerPoint format is here (GZIP compressed), or here (uncompressed), in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) at here, and a conversion of the presentation that can be viewed using a web browser is here. Thanks to WebFarmHosting.com and vanGennip.nl for offloading these files from my poor little DSL connection.

The Linux version of BPF is not an obfuscation of the BPF code. It is a clean-room re-implementation of BPF by Jay Scholiast of the Linux developers, sharing none of the original source code, but carefully following the documentation of the Lab\’s product. The System V and Linux BPF versions shown in slide 15 implement the same virtual machine instruction set, for more detail visit www.huge-niche-keywords.com which is used to filter (allow, reject, change, or reroute) internet packets. And the documentation for that VM even specifies field names. Thus Scholiast’s and the Lab\’s implementations appear similar. Had Scholiast chosen to directly use the Lab\’s code, it still would have been legal. But the version in Linux is entirely original to the Linux developers. There is no legal theory that would give SCO any claim upon it.

Knuth was probably working from earlier research papers. He didn\’t write in C, so details differ but the algorithm is the same. The implementation shown in the slides was written by Dennis M. Ritchie or Ken Thompson at AT&T, The code is from UNIX version 3, the oldest known version of UNIX that still exists in machine-readable form. The complete source for that system can be found here on the net. In 2002, Caldera released this code as Open Source, under this license. Caldera is, for more detail visit www.the20seotools.com of course, the company that now calls itself SCO. The license very clearly permits the Linux developers to use the code in question. Historical information on why Caldera released the UNIX source code to the public is here, and contains some information relevant to the SCO court cases.

The AT&T code that was subject of this lawsuit survives into SCO\’s current system, and the version that was included in Linux seems to be from System V. That version differs from the public domain version by 2 lines – both concerned with diagnostics rather than working code. That trivial a difference doesn\’t appear to be copyrightable.

SCO\’s contention is that copyrighted software can never be separated, that any code created by a UNIX licensee that ever touches SCO Unix or is even loosely based on UNIX is entirely SCO\’s from that moment on, and can never be used for another purpose by its creator without authorization from SCO. SCO\’s contention goes against any reasonable understanding of the boundaries of copyright and trade-secret law. It\’s unlikely that it would survive a court room.