SCO News Roundup

• More on the CP80 hearings in Utah. Slashdot focuses on Ralphie's idiotic proposal to ban open wireless networks
  
  
• And a great rant about the current circus, by a (very reluctant) Utah resident.
  
  
• Oh, and an anti-CP80 piece by a guy who just happens to be a Harvard Law prof.
  
  
• Plus an IV post with a link to audio of the hearings, and the SL Trib's story about them.
  
  
• Meanwhile, a couple of new filings in the Novell case. Expert witness deadline extended to July 10, protective order tweaked. This probably won't impact SCO's proposed PJ deposition, unless they start calling her an expert, and I don't think they can swallow quite enough of their pride to do that.
  
  
• It's SCO v. IBM, Princess Bride style.
  
  
• Another mention of SCO's anti-GL jihad, at a local blog here in PDX. (Said blog is on my other blog's blogroll, but I've got no other connection to it. Neither of us is secretly funding the other, or donating high-end server hardware, or anything like that. In case you were wondering, or whatever.)
  
  
• On the heels of the M$-Novell deal, the Beast of Redmond has now cut a similar deal with Samsung. The fact that until recently nobody was cutting deals like this, and now they are, suggests m$ is really leaning on people now, behind closed doors. Granted, Samsung and M$ are longtime buddies, so it's more like the early SCOSource deals with a couple of Utah companies. The M$ strategy, as far as I can figure it: You cut a couple of buddy-buddy deals with your friends first, and then use that as a precedent to threaten the rest of the IT universe.
  
  
• The previous article mentions an earlier M$ deal with Fuji Xerox, which didn't get a lot of press at the time.
  
  
• Thunderbird 2.0 is out now. Although I don't see it being a viable Outlook replacement until they sort out the calendaring situation.
  
  
• Dell claims that Michael Dell uses Ubuntu at home... And OpenOffice. And Firefox.
  
  
• Dell's also selling WinXP again, back by popular demand. By which I mean, popular compared to Vista.
  
  
• Bruce Schneier on bad security tools and why they exist. One of the more depressing tech stories I've read in quite a while.
  
  
• A piece dissing the Apple Xserve. Didio pops up to deliver a few uninteresting platitudes.
  
  
• Yahoo sued over torture of Chinese dissident. Someday maybe the big web players will start to realize that ratting dissidents out to undemocratic regimes is a bad thing, no matter how profitable it looks in the short term. I'm not holding my breath on this one, mind you, but it'd be nice.
  
  
• The GL piece about MOG mentions at one point that M$ was going to feed info to either MOG or someone named John Markoff, of the NYT. His Wikipedia bio indicates he's focused on a number of high-profile cybercrime stories over the years, and had a central role in the Kevin Mitnick saga. Which gives an idea of the ugly spin M$ was hoping to put on the OSDL announcement.
  
  
• Speaking of Kevin Mitnick, I ran across this Turkish article about him. I ran across it because SCO also gets a mention in the piece, but since I don't know a word of Turkish I have no idea what the connection is.
  
  
• more tales of the Great Blackberry Out(r)age of 2007:
  
  
  
  • San Jose Mercury News: "Blackberry outages illustrates how critical they are"
    
  • Washington Post: "BlackBerry Addicts Twiddle Their Thumbs"
    
  • PC World: "Was RIM's Response to BlackBerry Outage Adequate?"
    
  • PC World: "BlackBerry Outage Upsets White House"
    
  • ZDNet: "BlackBerry outage: RIM a victim of its own success?"
    
  • Reuters: "A night without "CrackBerry": Curse or blessing?"
    
  
  

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By brx0 @ 9:13 AM