SCO News Roundup

Still nothin' from the Utah Courts, of course. It's at the point where I'm getting concerned that the PSJ backlog will hold up the Novell trial date. September 17th is just about 10 weeks away, and both sides are going to want some prep time for the case once PSJ decisions are handed down, whenever that ends up being.

I suppose we could still see filings today, but I wouldn't bet on it.

In the meantime:

• Just one recent mention of SCO to report this time around. SCO makes yet another cameo as the canonical bunch of litigious bastards, in a recent Slashdot story about the RIAA.
  
  
• It's a shame SCO weaseled its way off delisting watch, but here's a small bit of consolation. The French company SCOR, which traded under the ticker symbol "SCO" (leading to much confusion over the years) is undergoing an eye-popping 10x reverse split, while also changing to the ticker symbol "SCR". Today's the day the old "SCO" shares were officially delisted from the Paris stock exchange. It's fun to imagine that their low stock price and ticker symbol change are due to confusion with "our" SCO, but that's probably giving Darl & Co. far too much credit.
  
  
• Although I'm sure Boies is spending most of his waking hours right now feverishly prepping for the Novell trial of the century (ok, maybe the centicentury, or the nanocentury at the very least), he's still managing to find a few spare moments to party with Kennedys and hedge fund billionaires. It sounds like nobody put an arm through a Picasso this time around, so that's something, I guess.
  
  
• EETimes has a detailed piece about the innards of an iPhone. I just played with an iPhone today, down at my friendly neighborhood Apple store. They're lucky they designed the things to be drool-proof. I used to think my Blackberry was a cool gadget, and all of a sudden it just seems impossibly old and clunky. I can only imagine what those poor saps with Windows Mobile phones must think.
  
  
• Naturally people are already tinkering with the thing. Some early results here and here.
  
  When I was playing with that iPhone, I pointed the browser right here at SNR to see how it looked. It looked fine, if a bit on the small side. It identifies itself as Mac OS X, with the browser string Safari 2.0
  Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3. The screen resolution is reported as 320 x 396, 32-bit color. FWIW.
  
  
• And the weird open source metaphor of the day, which doesn't concern computers at all. No, it's about junk food and obesity:
  

  
  The FDA doesn't have to give you permission to not enter the drive-through. The U.S. Patent Office doesn't have to put its seal on your decision not to supersize. It's here, it's free, it's open-source. It's dietary Linux. It doesn't discriminate by race, gender, religion, or income.
  
  And it couldn't be simpler:
  
  All you have to do is eat something besides junk food.
  

  
  
  Dietary Linux, eh? Which reminds me, McDonalds is still a SCO customer, right? So every time you avoid buying a Happy Meal, you owe Ronald McDonald another $699, I guess. And come to think of it, can it really be a coincidence that the names "Ronald McDonald" and "Darl McBride" are so similar? They even possess the same impeccable fashion sense. And as far as credibility in the tech industry goes, it's a dead heat between the two guys. It can't be pure coincidence. It just can't, I tell you.
  
  

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