Monday, July 21, 2003|
Sprint jumps into public-access Wi-Fi. Sprint has embraced public-access Wi-Fi and plans to provide users with software allowing them to easily switch from its cellular network to Wi-Fi. [Computerworld News] 5:54:16 PM 
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SCO Expands Attack on Linux. SCO now claiming that Linux users are violating its UnixWare copyrights. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] More FUD. Copyright infringement needs to be proven in a court of law, not in the court of industry opinion. I can't wait to see the letter SCO send out this time, offering companies, binary run-time licenses and then holding them blameless for past or future infringement. So if a company refuses to pay, then what? SCO certainly can't afford to file a bunch of these suits, though at some point it is going to have to show the world the code or just shut up. 3:22:48 PM
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SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview
from the it-drags-on-and-on-and-on dept. Prizm writes "It seems that SCO is continuing to build up its case for world domination, as today it was awarded U.S. copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code by the U.S. Copyright Office. Shares are up 20%, Novell is nowhere to be found, and SCO is releasing binary, run-only Linux licensing. You can read all about it over in their press release." C|Net is also running an interview with McBride. [Slashdot] 2:33:18 PM
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SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview
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Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books. Amazon.com is negotiating with book publishers to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of thousands of nonfiction books. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Technology] 9:19:55 AM
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SCO Considers Linux License Fees - Now SCO is considering asking business users for a fee for every copy of Linux they run distributed by any of the vendors, including Red Hat Inc., SuSE Inc., Debian GNU Linux and Turbolinux Inc., sources said, adding that individual users would likely not have to pay. - EWeek Now this is nothing short of extortion. Pay up a fee on each copy of Linux you are running that is based on the 2.4 kernel and we won't sue you if we ever happen to prove that Linux is based in part on SCO IP. What a nightmare. SCO has no legal standing to make any sort of demand like this. At best right now they have a breach of contract case against IBM. They have not filed any copyright infringement claims anywhere except in the press. This is a blatant PR play with the hope of generating some revenue or a payoff from IBM to just go away. 8:25:39 AM
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