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Monday, January 12, 2004

Marc Andreessen joins Orbitz board Online travel company Orbitz on Monday named Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to its board of directors. Andreessen is credited with helping develop the first Internet browser at the University of Illinois and is a co-founder of Opsware, a provider of data center automation software. Chicago-based Orbitz launched an initial public offering in December. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
6:35:12 PM

SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement

SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 12, @03:59PM
from the business-as-usual dept.
Greyfox writes "SCO has issued a response to the earlier OSDL legal aid announcement. Basically the same old story, noting: 'If vendors feel so confident with the intellectual property foundation under their massive contributions into Linux, then they should put their money where their mouth is and protect end users with true vendor-based indemnification.' The release also refers us to their SCOSource web site, which they claim in their announcement shows 'proof' of infringement. I was unable to find any such 'proof' other than their claim that they own errno.h. Since I'm obviously too much of an idiot to find the 'proof' they claim they're showing, maybe someone else could go look and tell me where it is."

[Slashdot]

6:34:16 PM

Windows 98 support to continue into 2006. Originally scheduled to be cut off on January 15, Microsoft has decided to extend support for the Windows 98 family of operating systems through June 2006 [Ars Technica]
11:55:57 AM

Microsoft retail project taps into RFID. The software giant says it plans to offer next-generation technology to retailers, including emerging wireless applications such as radio frequency identification. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
11:55:07 AM

IBM, Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund

IBM, Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, @07:59AM
from the upping-the-ante dept.
An anonymous reader writes that the "NY Times reports that a group of companies, led by I.B.M. and Intel, plans to announce today that it is setting up a $10 million legal defense fund to help pay for the litigation costs of corporate users of the popular GNU/Linux operating system if they are sued. ZDnet also has a story on this." otisaardvark points out that "The fund is to be administered by OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) and so, amongst other things, could bankroll legal costs for Linus." [Slashdot]
9:43:26 AM

Internet Week > Trojan Horse > Trojan Horse Poses As Windows XP Update > January 11, 2004 - A new Swen-style Trojan horse posing as a critical update from Microsoft has been detected on the Internet, and users who open the e-mail message may find their machines loaded with a back-door Trojan that can steal passwords or be used in conjunction with other systems to conduct major denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

Dubbed Trojan.Xombe (as in zombie) by most security firms, the Trojan shares some characteristics of the Swen worm family in that it masquerades as a message from Microsoft and purports to carry a security update in its file attachment. However, unlike Swen--a worm which first appeared last September--Trojan.Xombe doesn't self-replicate.

8:26:54 AM