asciilifeform: 'March 7, 2003 - The SCO Group filed legal action against IBM in the State Court of Utah for trade secrets misappropriation, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract. The complaint alleges that IBM made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the economic value of UNIX, particularly UNIX on Intel, to benefit IBM's Linux services business.'
asciilifeform: possibly he had a variant. ( erryone has a variant ! even asciilifeform )
asciilifeform still not convinced that it wasn't a psyop, to build up street cred for schneiers . 0 convictions, 0 sentences, for 'pgp smugglers' afaik.
asciilifeform: lol the '90s 'cryptoexport' muppet theatre
asciilifeform: in a time of decay, when what comes in is commissars, minefield is +ev
asciilifeform: this would depend, i suspect, on what's being kept in/out
asciilifeform: bigger minefield, richer village, neh
asciilifeform: these expeditions always seem to end with a catv. but asciilifeform looks forward to reading the postmortem.
asciilifeform: 'It is an "anarchistic" network without the channel services and nickname services you may find on other networks but this is deliberate since this is how IRC was designed to be used and our users tend to prefer it this way'
asciilifeform: last item in linked blog , circa '15. but yea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's pretty old, i have nfi whether d00d still in the saddle
asciilifeform: bus is a poverty artifact. and i will add that , most hilariously, recent items like pcie are actually implemented as ports, physically! but on the idjit x86 end EMULATE behaviour of bus !!
asciilifeform: i.e. cpu only knows how to speak to other cpus. and other iron is special case of 'other cpu'
asciilifeform: actually the correct solution is fabric
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sgi had a crossbar, it aint an unheard-of thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'multiple buses on other buses' bigger-fleas-and-little-fleas horror show is no kind of cure tho.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we did, possibly in the dma thread
asciilifeform: for so long as buying their iron -- playing with them.
asciilifeform: because driver under idjit x86 iron is a massive ball of ???, none of which typically generalizes to ANY other item
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that'd be (b)500MB of shit
asciilifeform: ( and even crapple iirc is stuck maintaining several versions of theirs, because different editions of iron )
asciilifeform: 'kernel is this ONE item, and fuckyou' worx when you get to standardize the iron. and not otherwise.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they were forced mistake, via x86ism . without something like modules, you get to pick b/w a) kernel that runs on ONE box, and that's until you change a card b) a 500MB liquishit pot
asciilifeform: aha, it is intimately per-machine item
asciilifeform: trinque: apu really oughta be run with an in-rom kernel
asciilifeform: trinque: i still haven't attempted musltronic gentoo. ( and have nfi whether it could be used on a workstation, say -- does emacs run ? what dies ? )
