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Thursday, August 07, 2003

SCO Press Release:"We view IBM's counterclaim filing today as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model. It repeats the same unsubstantiated allegations made in Red Hat's filing earlier this week. If IBM were serious about addressing the real problems with Linux, it would offer full customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license."
4:29:02 PM

IBM Letter to Internal Sales Force - Editor's Note: On Wednesday, IBM filed a counterclaim against SCO in its ongoing intellectual property battle over Unix/Linux. Here is the text of the letter that IBM sent to its internal sales force on the suit. - Eweek
3:27:54 PM

LinuxWorld: Analysts say SCO legal challenge part of Linux evolution - Computerworld - The turmoil in the world of open-source software, from ongoing legal challenges against Linux by The SCO Group Inc. to global companies embracing open-source in recent years, is all part of the normal business technology and adoption landscape, said analysts at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here yesterday.
In fact, rather than being dead ends for open-source and Linux development, the bumps along the way will more likely boost its use and acceptance by companies.
3:03:11 PM

Novell: 'We're Not Dumping NetWare'. Novell executives respond to reports the company is planning to phase out new NetWare development in favor of Linux. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
2:50:41 PM

IBM Countersues SCO, And More!

IBM Countersues SCO, And More!

Posted by michael on Thursday August 07, @12:49PM
from the house-of-cards-gets-a-push dept.
mr.crutch writes "Few details are available, but CNet is reporting that IBM has filed counterclaims against SCO. CNet also has an interview with Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik..." Jizzbug writes "Thanks to the folks of K5, we can all obtain our rights to use the Linux kernel from SCO, and without paying up to SCO's extortion. If kernel.org kernels aren't safe, sco.com kernels certainly ought to be." LWN has a copy of SCO's Linux License for your perusal. Bruce Perens is speaking of the dangers of patent portfolios to open source software, notable because IBM's counterclaims include patent infringement. And finally, a company is selling SCO Check, a tool to de-SCOify your Linux system, if SCO ever presents any evidence whatsoever of infringing code in Linux.

[Slashdot]

2:47:57 PM

New Tool Can Root Out SCO Code - Aduva Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a system known as OnStage that contains a feature known as SCO Check that will "conduct a complete inventory of your system and if SCO [The SCO Group] identifies some illegal code, we can do a check to find the code, identify it and then automate the replacement of that code" with Red Hat Linux or an appropriate fix, said Chris Van Turn, director of customer service for Aduva. - Eweek
9:52:52 AM

SCO unveils Linux licensing scheme - Computerworld - One day after being sued by Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. for "unfair and deceptive actions" relating to its claims about intellectual property violations in the Linux source code, The SCO Group Inc. today told Unix users exactly what it would cost to take their systems out of the sights of SCO's lawyers.
SCO's charge: $699 per processor.
9:48:59 AM

Open-source spam-blocker gets high marks at Cornell - Computerworld - When the academic year begins this fall, students at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will be armed with what its CIO sees as a powerful new weapon to battle spam.
For the past two months, the school's IT organization has been beta-testing an open-source tool called the SpamBayes Outlook Plug-in and is preparing for a broad rollout.
9:46:16 AM

Red Hat CEO issues call to arms. Dismissing pundits who have disparaged new technologies, Matthew Szulik had a simple message for LinuxWorld attendees: We will prevail. [CNET News.com]
9:43:20 AM

Penguin Moves to Disney - Last year, when the Walt Disney Co.'s feature animation unit, in Burbank, Calif., announced that it was using Linux for digital animation work, speculation grew that Adobe Systems Inc. would finally port its products to Linux. To this day, however, Adobe has done no such thing. Rather than wait, Disney, along with two other motion picture animation studios (which declined to be named for this article), decided to jointly fund the development of a Windows-to-Linux porting solution. The idea: develop technology using the Wine emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on Linux. - Eweek
9:42:41 AM

Dell to Sell Red Hat Linux ES on PowerEdge. Dell to ship the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES operating system with select PowerEdge servers. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
9:28:44 AM