Thursday, December 07, 2006
12/9 SNR
Mmmm, tasty sub-$1 goodness. It's been a long time coming, and we'll see how long it stays, but still, it's a nice way to end the week.
Meanwhile, other stuff just keeps on happening:
Meanwhile, other stuff just keeps on happening:
- Another piece on the MS-NOVL thing: :"Novell screws up big time".
- Another User Friendly about SCO.
- This cartoon isn't specifically SCO-related, but I can see lots of former employees taking this up as a new career.
- ECMA, Microsoft's favorite lapdog standards body, has approved "OpenXML" as a so-called standard. Recall that ECMA is the same group MS used to "standardize" C#.
- A few IBM-related items, the first two contributed by the one-n-only Biff. None are SCO-related, but the last (non-Biff) one at least relates to IP litigation, so it sort of fits here.
- A court case" in Russia.
- Some outsourcing-related job cuts.
- And another court case, this time with IBM suing over someone's Itanium-based zSeries clone.
- On a cheerier note, here's IBM's latest batch of F/OSS-related documents, howtos, tutorials, etc.
- A court case" in Russia.
- Another troll on the boards posted a link to this weird anti-GPL rant. I gather the author likes the words "commies", "fanatics", and "hypocrites" a great deal.
- Another piece on SCO, Novell, SVR4, etc., from a Mac perspective. Some weird ideas here, not the least of which is the notion that SVRx is sleek and fast and non-bloated. Sure. As if. Someone should tell the guy that as a Mac ( == BSD ) partisan, he's not supposed to say anything nice about SysV Unix, ever, especially inaccurate stuff.
- ComputerWorld has a preview of Mac OSX 10.5. And Spymac asserts Macs are gaining increasing enterprise acceptance.
- A question whether the new law-focused OSDL is even necessary.
- Today's new distro you've never heard of: Pioneer Linux.
- Scott Lemon, who was once SCO's "Chief Technologist", has a few recent posts over on on SiliconInvestor's SCOX board.
- Updates on BS&F's Qualcomm and AIG cases, and another piece about the infamous elbowed Picasso incident.
- For some reason, today I had the notion to check out SCO's unofficial stock listings in Germany, where they trade under the symbol CQUA for some reason. Yahoo Germany has a sort of root SCO page where you can find the listings for all of SCO's ticker symbols: SCOX (obviously), CQUA.BE (Berlin-Bremen), CQUA.DE (XETRA trading network), CQUA.F (Frankfurt), and CQUA.SG (Stuttgart). There are even message boards for all of 'em, although nobody's using them right now.
- You can see quotes for the German ticker symbols on US Y! too, although the default search won't find them. Here's the top page for CQUA.DE; the URLs for the other symbols are quite similar. No CQUA forums in English, for some reason, though.
- For completeness, here's the CQUA.DE page at Y! France, as well. More forums, again unused.
- A recent item mentioned ways to run Linux on your Roomba. But why do that when you can buy a robot that runs Linux right out of the box, without any kludging or other assembly required.
By brx0 @ 10:35 PM 
