Monday, December 04, 2006
12/4 SNR II
Updated: Hmm. Looks like someone's linked to this page from Groklaw. If this is your first time at SNR, what you're looking at is my ongoing effort to track current events about SCO & related malefactors in the tech universe. These "News Roundups" began over on the Y! board, but Yahoo eventually became intolerable, so I started this thing.
I'm a geek, not a legal type, and this site is not, not, not supposed to be a GL competitor in any way, as if that was even remotely possible. Posts here typically look like the following, with an assorted miscellany of recent news articles, blog posts, Usenet posts, and anything else I (or one of this site's small but merry band of astute readers) come across that looks interesting and seems vaguely related to the subject at hand. Along with the links, I generally toss in a bit of snarky and disagreeable commentary, at no extra charge.
So anyway, hi there, and welcome, etc. The main page for the blog is here, in case you're interested.
Misc. additional stuff for today:
I'm a geek, not a legal type, and this site is not, not, not supposed to be a GL competitor in any way, as if that was even remotely possible. Posts here typically look like the following, with an assorted miscellany of recent news articles, blog posts, Usenet posts, and anything else I (or one of this site's small but merry band of astute readers) come across that looks interesting and seems vaguely related to the subject at hand. Along with the links, I generally toss in a bit of snarky and disagreeable commentary, at no extra charge.
So anyway, hi there, and welcome, etc. The main page for the blog is here, in case you're interested.
Misc. additional stuff for today:
- More stories about Kimball's ruling, etc., from Out-Law and Computing [UK]. Also see this user comment thread on CNet.
- The stock closed at 1.11 today, with an intraday low of 1.05. We haven't seen numbers that low in a long time. I posted on IV earlier today about the intraday low. The 1.11 close is also the lowest since October 11th, 2002. So today was a new 4+ year low, not just a 52-week low.
- With the recent drop in the stock price, SCOX is attracting the usual motley crew of shills, pumpers, and touts, along with their usual prey, penny-ante daytraders. They're on the boards, as usual, and they're also venturing into stock spam. ElCorton researches that particular spammer here, with some interesting results. Seems we in the F/OSS world aren't the only ones who think SCO's headed for the Pink Sheets.
- A post by someone on an MSDN forum who's thinking of buying SCO stock and wants advice.
- GL on Novell "forking" OpenOffice.org. Hmm. I like OOo just the way it is, proprietary file formats not included, but thanks anyway.
- A piece at WebProNews on diagnosing mysterious system lockups, including on SCO boxes.
- That Humorix piece from last week about Microsoft competing with Satan.
- The Register is feeling meanspirited today, noting that SCO's website contains a broken link to its HA Clusters page. Even I think that's kind of a cheap shot -- not that I'm complaining. Somehow, they failed to use the word "clusterfuck" anywhere in the article. I thought that would prove irresistible, but hey, I'm not a journalist, so what do I know?
FWIW, someone's already posted the ElReg story to c.u.s.m. here. - Mostly OT & a bit NSFW: It's a four-way, if you count the lawyers. Clearly Darl & friends should've picked better lawyers, because for SCO the last couple of years have been nothing but uninterrupted Article 20, if you know what I mean.
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