SCO News Roundup

• Another batch of SCO v. IBM filings, on GL-lite, and Zen's Den. Two sealed docs and one of those overlength memo thingys. So nothing earthshaking today. As you were.
  
• On Lamlaw, an article on the many obstacles facing SCO right now.
  
• If you're stuck with OpenServer 5.0.7, you probably ought to know that a new Maintenance Pack is out, and it claims to address a long list of security holes.
  
• Today's Open Source Odds and Sods, including a tidbit about Linus's unhappiness with Gnome... a problem which Linus addresses in proper F/OSS fashion, by submitting a patch.
  
• More on this year's edition of the endless desktop wars here.
  
• And an unusual piece partly about KDE: A heartfelt plea to get rid of the tech world's "master" and "slave" terminology.
  
• Elsewhere in IP litigation land:
  
  
  
  • AT&T wins a round in a patent case against M$, but next we hear from the Supremes (not one of whom is an engineer, btw.)
    
  • A Blankenhorn piece about the Verizon v. Vonage VOIP case. SCO gets a quick mention, as it does every time another wannabe Evil IP Overlord crops up.
    
  • The RIAA declares holy jihad against the nation's college students. Often with the eager cooperation of their schools, believe it or not. Share an MP3, get suspended for a semester.
    
  • In hardware land, there's a settlement in the patent case between Synopsys and Magma Design. I haven't followed this one too closely, maybe someone out there can fill us in on the details.
    
  
  
• Lynne Jolitz (of 386BSD fame) has an interesting piece on "Academics vs. Developers". Note to academics: If you're writing code on Linux, even if you're just trying to prove a point, you really ought to use a modern kernel/distro so your startling innovations can be merged back and shared with the off-campus universe (which does really exist, btw.) A user comment links to a Douglas Comer bit on "How To Criticize Computer Scientists".
  
• Impress your friend(s) with this kewl mil-spec USB flash drive.
  
• A profile of the Apache Foundation. They want you to know they're not just about web servers anymore. My Java-based colleagues keep telling me that Tomcat and Jakarta are both da shiznit, but so far I haven't had the free time to learn more.
  
• Everyone knows by now that Vista's UAC is a total botch. ZDNet puts out a call for better ideas. Although they don't want to hear about your pesky Ubuntu, thank you very much.
  
• Speaking of UAC, have you seen the new Apple commercial? Seems that BillG doesn't like it too much.
  
• A piece with tips on using a Mac mini as a server.
  
• I'm probably tempting fate with 3 Mac bits in a row, but here's a thread on how to set up a RAID "array" on a floppy under OSX. Whatever. Wake me when you can boot an iMac off a 9-track tape.
  

Labels: linux, open source, sco, tech

By brx0 @ 2:04 AM