SCO News Roundup

The title is sort of a silly reference to today's date, and also sort of a reference to SCO being a band of incompetent fools, as you'll see below. I thought the title was sort of clever, but what do I know?

• Today was the deadline for PSJs' and other dispositive motions in the Novell case, so we've got a couple more of those, plus some action in the Novell case. As always, here's the obligatory Zen link. Some highlights of the new docs:
  
  In Novell, items 271 and 272 are a PSJ motion & support memo by Novell regarding the copyright portions of a couple of SCO's claims. Novell tries to cover all the bases, demonstrating that SCO's claims are invalid under both Utah and California law, just in case, I guess. As has been covered before, one of the things SCO's trying to do in the Novell case is take that vague "unfair competition" law Yarro pushed through the legislature, and apply it retroactively to things Novell is alleged to have done before the law went into effect. Turns out that one of the things Yarro's Law defines as unfair competition is "cyber-terrorism". So when SCO & friends use this term, which they still do on a semi-regular basis, it's not just hyperbole, it's part of a very specific legal strategy / business plan.
  
  Doc 273 is supposed to relate to SCO's non-compete claims, but it looks like a copy of 271 to me.
  
  On the IBM side, doc 1034 is titled IBM’S SUR-REPLY MEMORANDUM IN FURTHER OPPOSITION TO SCO’S OBJECTIONS TO THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S ORDER ON IBM’S MOTION TO CONFINE AND SCO’S MOTION TO AMEND ITS DECEMBER 2005 SUBMISSION. It's the same old story: SCO wants to keep on adding claims, and badgering random people for depositions, and changing the very basis of its case every few months. And IBM's sick and tired of it, and they hope the court is as well. As always, it's a fun read. They even cite Lewis Carroll at one point. Really.
  
  
• Some reactions to Ralphie's latest CP80 blathering:
  
  
  
  • WebProNews: Utah's Scared of the Internet
    
  • Coverage at Salt Lake's KSL-TV
    
  • A Forbes story, thankfully not by Lyons.
    
  • WiFiNetNews: SCO Chair Argues for Open Wi-Fi Crackdown in Utah
    
  • A story at Computerworld
    
  • Techdirt: SCO Head Wants To Ban Public WiFi To Stop Porn
    
  • SmackFoo: SCO Chairman - Ban Open Wireless Networks
    
  • A couple of great IV posts by lurker_g and Spanishinquisition
    
  
  
  
• Here's a fun tidbit from a Linksys forum in February, where a user named "yarro" asks "How do I connect my Linksys wireless desktop card to the internet?"
  
  
• The one response asks if "yarro" was using WinXP. If he's got a Linksys, clearly he can't be using SCO OpenServer, if this page is complete. It shows exactly one wireless adapter listed as supported under OpenServer -- which is one more than I expected -- and it just so happens that said adapter is, or was, made by... IBM. Niiiiice.
  
  
• So the world's jeering at Ralphie, but at least his local business community still likes him. Once again, he's been named to vSpring Capital's kinda-sorta-prestigious v|100 list. There's a guy from Solera on there, and a few people from Omniture, and even a couple from the church, believe it or not.
  
  
• A troll on Y! linked to this review of BabelDisc, which appears to be sort of a tardware version of Ubuntu. I'll keep my real Ubuntu, but thanks for offering, guys.
  
  
• Speaking of Ubuntu, this July will see the first Ubuntu Live conference, held right here in Portland, semi-overlapping with OSCON.
  
  
• Scary money troubles at AMD. Maybe you ought to buy that multicore Opteron while you can.
  
  
• Al P. on an amusing free speech / trademark issue that's bound to make the CP80 wingnuts even crazier...
  
  
• An ugly tale of M$ vs open standards in Florida, complete with "men in black".
  
  

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