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Thursday, December 11, 2003

SEC Filing Reveals Corporate Linux Users Are Ignoring SCO License Demands. Thanks to skeptical CIOs, the company threatening Linux users is almost certain to report a loss on December 22nd. [Linux Journal]
8:37:50 PM

Red Hat founder sees irony in SCO lawsuit. Though the company he founded has been drawn into a legal dispute between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp., former Red Hat Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Young has not had much to say about the SCO dispute. At least, that was the case until Wednesday, when Young published an open letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride criticizing him for his management of SCO and countering McBride's recent claims that the open source community is attacking intellectual property laws in Europe and the U.S. [InfoWorld: Top News]
8:34:09 PM

When Good Patents Go Bad

When Good Patents Go Bad

Posted by michael on Thursday December 11, @10:59AM
from the there-are-good-patents? dept.
will writes "The Washington Post has a good review of patents in the information age. The insanity of the US patent system has been chronicled on this site numerous times in the past (for example, an FTC report on patent policy, some patents for obvious applications such as Microsoft patenting local weather, and Amazon patenting inside book searching). The Washington Post article does a good job of overviewing IP issues today, why the current US patent systems fails in the information age, and gives an example of patent extortion. Excuse me while I patent my DNA."

[Slashdot]

2:00:02 PM

Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked. Groklaw's Pamela Jones reports that security experts are telling Groklaw that SCO's Web site shouldn't have been knocked out by the Denial of Service (DoS)SCO describes and wonder if SCO was DoSed at all. [eWEEK Technology News]
1:47:16 PM

eWeek: Open-Source Legal Experts Dismiss SCO's Copyright Claims [Linux Today] - Links to an Eweek article that slams SCO's open letter.
11:23:13 AM

Early Days Of a Data-Sharing Revolution (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A new version of Intuit Inc.'s "ItsDeductible" software, which hit retail stores last week, uses eBay's auction prices to estimate the value of charitable donations for tax write-offs. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
10:54:24 AM

Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked. SCO has reported that they are experiencing an attack on their servers. Groklaw has been flooded with information that indicates their story doesn't add up. The consensus of what I am hearing is: That it is probably not an attack. That their description of the "attack" makes no sense. And that if what they are saying were true, SCO would be admitting to gross negligence. First, I'm being told that Linux has a very simple preventative built in. Linux comes with the ability to block ALL SYN attacks. End of story. All major firewalls can do so also. They run their web site on Linux. CISCO routers can protect against SYN attacks too, I have been told, if properly enabled. Why does SCO persist in having such problems? I knew one of Groklaw's readers is a security professional in Australia, so I wrote to him and asked if he'd take a look and give me his opinion. [GrokLaw]
10:48:02 AM

IEEE networking conferences turn to Linux as network OS. At first glance this might look like a "press release turned into a story" article since it started with an announcement by I.D.E.A.L. Technology of Orlando, Florida. But how and why I.D.E.A.L. vice presidents Anthony Awtrey and Jordan Jacobs brought in a contract to provide wireless (and wired) networking services to the IEEE Project 802 Standards Committee and Wireless Working Groups should serve as a lesson to Linux solution providers all over the world, especially in light of the fact that IEEE -- the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers -- was getting free Microsoft-based wireless (and wired) networking products, but decided it was better to pay for Linux-based networking because it worked better. [NewsForge]
10:45:34 AM