Here is the text of the Novell pressrelease challenging SCO's ownership of Unix copyrights and patents. 1:38:55 PM ![]() |
Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims | CNET News.com - In a letter to SCO released Wednesday, Novell asserted that it retains Unix patents and copyrights, demanded that SCO reveal where Unix source code has been copied into Linux, and raised its own threat of legal action to compensate for damage it says has been done to customers, programmers and companies using Linux. 1:22:13 PM ![]() |
Windows XP Update Blocks Net Access for Some - The update, which is not a security patch, was designed to improve the operation of VPNs running on Windows XP machines. It made some changes to the way the machines use IPSec encryption and the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol when they're behind devices such as firewalls that perform network address translation. - Eweek 11:25:39 AM ![]() |
InformationWeek > Security > Virus-Writing Class Creates Stir > May 27, 2003 - A new course about viruses and malicious software on the fall schedule at the University of Calgary has drawn sharp criticism from some in the security field because it will teach students how to write harmful software. 11:21:11 AM ![]() |
Blogs: The Next Big Thing - by John C. Dvorak - The Blogging phenomenon, which recently drew much attention because of the purchase of Blogger by Google, will become the next big computer fad if it hasn't already. And I don't mean fad in a bad way. I don't want to argue with various bloggers about the fact that blogging has been going on for years already. That's beside the point, as is clear if we compare blogging to two similar über-fads—the CD-ROM business and the dot-com phenomenon. Both had been going on for years before they were suddenly catapulted into the mainstream in a big way. Blogging is following this exact path. (If you haven't seen my previous commentaries on blogging, please read these three columns: "The Blog Phenomenon", "Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto", and "Deconstructing the Blog". - PC Magazine Well there you have it, blogs are the next big thing, I hadn't really noticed. 11:07:12 AM ![]() |