Thursday, November 09, 2006
11/9 SNR
- Disagreeing with Bruce Perens, SJVN asserts that Novell is not SCO.
- Don Rosenberg at SearchOpenSource.com has a new piece mostly about SCO, responding to reader comments about a previous column about Novell & Oracle.
- On GL yesterday, we learned more about the Leitzinger mini-controversy. SCO desperately wants to conceal where the guy gets his money from, and IBM begs to differ. IBM's latest filing is brutal and very, very funny.
- Daniel Wallace's anti-GPL jihad gets smacked down again, this time in the US Court of Appeals. Veggie-boy has the text here, or if you prefer proprietary document formats, here's the PDF. The great thing about this is that the judges ruled on what the GPL is and isn't, instead of making a strictly procedural, technical ruling about whether Wallace had standing to sue and so forth. The GPL wins big in court, and we have Daniel Wallace to thank for it, in a backhanded sort of way.
I guess he could still try an "en banc" appeal to the full Appeals court (as a certain troll suggests on IV), or just appeal to the full Supreme Court. Somehow I think they have better things to do than take on boneheaded pro-se cases from angry wingnuts. But we'll have to wait and see on this one. - A Berlind piece discussing Novell in light of the MS deal. The one and only Jeffro gets a brief mention in connection with the history of the company.
- A piece at Silicon.com asserts that Linux on the desktop is dead.
- A Halloween-themed security piece at InfoWorld. Realm Systems gets a mention, plus there's a still from Shaun of the Dead.
- A bit about Linux in the point-of-sale sector.
- Another kernel panic thread on c.u.s.m. OSR 5.0.6 won't even boot, and the poster insists that WinXP runs fine on the same box.
- Jerry Pournelle has a few words to say about SCO over at Chaos Manor. (Not the top story; you'll need to scroll down a little.)
- Forbes: Zune is teh sux0r
- Yet more anti-pr0n PR from BYU, once again heavily pushing CP80. The piece says they'll be introducing something called the "Internet Community Port Act" in the next Congress. This piece is dated the day before election day. I doubt the outcome of the election is going to boost the odds of this Use-CP80-Or-Else Act getting a hearing.
- I had a sneaking suspicion we'd hear from Boies before the election was completely over. On election day, he commented about possible election controversies that didn't come to pass. And here he comments some more about the Virginia senate race. At least he stuck to a mostly-harmless role as a "celebrity interviewee" this time around. I'm sure he was iitching to sign up for (and then botch) a prospective Webb v. Allen court battle. I'm glad it didn't come to that.
- Elsewhere in Boiestown, it appears that BS&F got conned by a shady private investigator in the AIG case. No honor among thieves, I guess.
- And some BS&F guy in Albany NY is heading a fundraising campaign for some ultra-ritzy private school. Real humanitarians, these BS&F clowns.
- Just how gullible are people in Lindon, Utah? Check out this tax dodge. The guy thought that he could avoid taxes by "giving" his money to friends and family, while retaining full control of what was done with it. And his friends and family agreed to go along with the con, even though there's no mention of them benefiting from the scam themselves. What sort of person agrees to participate in a tax dodge, without making a cent off of the deal, and seemingly without ever even wondering "What's in it for me?" Weird.
By brx0 @ 3:23 PM 
