SCO News Roundup

• There's been a huge steaming pile of new filings in SCO v. IBM lately, but they all boil down to SCO screeching "Me wanna 'nother do-over" again and again. GL has the goods here, and Lamlaw chimes in as well.
  
  
• For those of you who missed the big iXorg Winter Meeting -- iXorg being a semi-official group for SCO user(s) -- their site has the meeting agenda here. Some highlights:
  
  
  
  • It was a four-day event, with precisely 15 minutes devoted to Me Inc.
    
  • There's a Maintenance Pack 3 for OSR6 in the works, Real Soon Now.
    
  • Further down the road on the OS roadmap, there's a cryptic item labeled 64-bit O/S ("Project Diamond"?). This may be fairly far down the road, though, since the top agenda item for the Operating Systems meeting is "Engineering Priorities and Staffing".
    
  • There was a bit about pricing, meaning the upcoming 20% price increase. It would've been fun to be a fly on the wall for that agenda item.
    
  • A presumably much shorter agenda item: "SCO Forum 2006 commitments and follow through". Snort. Giggle.
    
  • The next meeting of SCO user(s) will be X-Fest, scheduled for June 1-2 in Pittsburgh. Mark your calendars now.
    
  • There's also a mention of SCOForum 2007. So at least someone's still feeling optimistic.
    
  • Both the Monday and Tuesday agendas end with "10:00 - ? Poker". I imagine there's no ending time listed because they're playing poker SCO-style, where you never, ever have to show your cards. Thanks, you've been a great audience. Try the fish.
    
  
  
• Another silly new column from "Paul Murphy". Mostly speculation about why M$ is so successful. That particular topic's been covered extensively by many people well above Rudy/Paul's rated wattage level, and they usually don't come up with howlers like:
  

  
  There's no mystery for "Phase Two" either: in the Jackson round of anti-trust trials Microsoft ended up convicted of numerous criminal counts before the government's lawyers (led by the same David Boies who seems to be having some difficulty proving the obvious in the SCO case) proved unable to demonstrate that Microsoft, whose revenue rose from around $9 billion to $23 billion during the trial period, benefited from its criminal activities during that period.
  

  
  
  Yes, he actually said "proving the obvious" in the SCO case. And yes, that whole paragraph is a single sentence, one monstrous gob of word salad.
  
  
• As noted some time ago, SCO isn't Kevin McBride's only foray into IP trolldom. He's also working for "Affinity Technology Group", and that gig isn't going too well either.
  
  
• A federal judge in Philadelphia has struck down the 1998 "Child Online Protection Act", or COPA. Too early to say whether this'll be a boon or bane for Ralphie's CP80 con game.
  
  
• J. Sizz on IV digs up the goods on a troll and possible CP80/SCO insider who haunts the boards now and then. Nice bit of detective work there.
  
  
• Also on IV, sco_source_scam points us at the antics of one cjHebgen, who had a go at rewriting SCO history the other day, erasing various things that portrayed the company (and Darl) unflatteringly. Edits already reverted, needless to say. Same nym occasionally trolls Y! as well (see here and here.) He or she claims to have bought at $7.70, and the stock hasn't seen the high side of $1 for seven days now. So a degree of frustration on the part of this Hebgen person is understandable, I guess. Might as well try to rewrite history, it's bound to work just as well as everything else has.
  
  
• A little OT, but here's an Economist profile of Elon Musk, who started PayPal before cashing out and going into the rocket business. Esker's role model, perhaps?
  
  

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