- October 19, 2003
SCO Replies to Red Hat and Amendment S3 Comparison to Original
I have the SCO reply to Red Hat, which you can read here. We'll be writing more about it shortly, but meanwhile I thought you'd like to see it for yourselves. Here's something else of interest, a comparison line by line Dr. Stupid did for us (at work on his toy operating system) of the original S3 in September and the recent Amendment to the S3, which SCO just filed. Note the difference in the indemnification...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a371
- October 19, 2003
If You Want to Know What's Really Going On, Ask the Lawyers
No matter what spin SCO puts on it, here's what their lawyers think, as shown in SCO 's new 8K, just filed: "Arrangement with Counsel "SCO announced that it is in the process of finalizing a modification of the engagement with the law firm representing SCO in the protection of SCO's intellectual property rights. As part of this modification, which is subject to a definitive agreement, the law firm would receive a...
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- October 19, 2003
Groklaw's Open Letter Linked to SCO's Backing Off Invoicing
Computer Business Review indicates our Open Letter to SCO was a factor in SCO's decision to back down from its invoice scheme. I expect the research support document, Digging for Truth, sent with it, had some weight, too. That seemed worth telling you about in its own article, with its own headline. We all worked so hard on that project, and I can't help but be thrilled at this report. Here's what they said: .
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- October 19, 2003
SCO Teleconference to Explain Itself Friday
SCO has announced the details of the Friday teleconference. They say they will explain the &36;50 million from BayStar and tell us what they will do with it and say "SCO will provide further details on the investment led by BayStar Capital Management." Hmm. "Led by" means others I'm sure every word will be true blue and well worth the time invested. Only "press and industry analysts" are invited. The announcement calls them "the...
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- October 19, 2003
SCO Gets $50 Million to Do More Bad Things With
BayStar Capital has invested in SCO to the tune of $50 million. They call it a private investment transaction. I call it a "raise the value of your stock by nonsensical research reports and other tricks and then profit from the increased value of your stock", but I'm no stock guru, so I could be imagining things. Maybe it's the other way around, namely that DB knew this was in the works, and so they put out a report to try to look...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a367
- October 19, 2003
No Invoices, Deutsche Bank Comes Through Again, and SCO is "Honored"
It seems SCO is so pleased with response to its SCOsource licensing, it doesn't need to send out any invoices. Oh, and you have until the 31st before the price goes up on those invoices they aren't sending and you weren't going to pay anyway: "The SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to corporate users in order to prod them into buying licenses for their use of Linux, an operating system the...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a366
- October 19, 2003
And They Say You Can't Change the World
The Register is reporting that Israel has just acknowledged that Microsoft Israel is a monopoly, and that legal ruling means no upgrades of MS products through all of next year. They are looking into OpenOffice instead: "The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when...
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- October 19, 2003
Groklaw's Believe It Or Not
Somebody submit this to Ripley's Believe it or Not right away: Forbes has come out with an article attacking intellectual property rights!
Mr. Daniel Lyons of Forbes Magazine notoriety, has attacked the Free Software Foundation for enforcing its copyrights and the GPL license.
Why it's positively unAmerican!
Yup. It's true, Mr. Lyons. If you choose to use GPL code in your business, you must do so in accord with the license terms. If you don't.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a364
- October 19, 2003
SCO Tries to Use Lineo Case Against Open Source
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. What a nose I have for these guys. Already, SCO's Blake Stowell is pointing to the Lineo case as an example "proving" that open source is a problem. As soon as the story broke, my first thought was to wonder if maybe Canopy went public with it so the case could be used by SCO as an example of problems with the GPL. Actually, that was my first publishable thought. Whether that happened and...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a363
- October 19, 2003
Yarro Admits Lineo Infringed GPL Code --DiDio: "All Roads Lead to Canopy"
John Markoff at the NYTimes is reporting that Lineo, a former Canopy Group company, sued by Monte Vista for copyright infringement, has settled the case, and that Ralph Yarro admits Lineo infringed Monte Vista's copyrights. And here is the kicker: the code was GPL code. While the court docs are sealed, the charge by Monte Vista (could there be two companies named Monte Vista) was that their GPL code.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/10/19.html#a362
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