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Thursday, May 29, 2003

India putting the boots to Microsoft.. The Times of India is reporting: "President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday urged Indian IT professionals to develop and specialise in open source code software rather than use proprietary solutions based on systems such as Microsoft Windows." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs]
5:52:53 PM

SCO: Threat to Torvalds overstated. SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride says a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds is overstated. [CNET News.com]
4:22:20 PM

Georgia Bar Examination Statistics - Feb. 2003 bar pass rates are out. 88% of the Emory grads taking the GA bar in Feb. passed, leading the state.

4:13:07 PM

Q&A: SCO's Chris Sontag on Linux, Unix and brewing legal fights - Computerworld - In an interview with Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau, SCO's Chris Sontag, a senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource Division, the group within SCO in charge of enforcing the company's intellectual property, discussed the company's position.
3:28:52 PM

EBay ordered to pay $35M for patent infringement - Computerworld - A federal jury in Virginia yesterday ordered eBay Inc. and its Half.com Inc. business to pay $35 million for infringing on two patents owned by MercExchange LLC, which holds and licenses numerous patents related to e-commerce.
The trial, which lasted four weeks (see story), revolved around two patents MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston applied for in the spring of 1995 -- some five months before eBay was launched by founder Pierre Omidyar. Woolston filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk in September 2001.
10:30:09 AM

Doing It All with OpenSSH, Part 1. An introduction to doing it all with the secure shell. [Linux Journal]
8:31:17 AM