Readers who have endured my writing over the years know that there is no piece of software more important to me than the word processor. They also know that I've never found a Linux-native word processor that I didn't think fell short in one important way or another.
Lindows.com announced today that it has previously entered into an agreement through which SCO would provide Lindows with certain technology. According to Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows.com, this means that Lindows.com customers will not have to worry about SCO's ongoing attempts to “protect its IP.” Interestingly enough, this may cause a much larger impact than Robertson bargained for.
In a number of stories that broke today, the SCO-IBM conflict continued to grow to include Novell Corp., the company that SCO's (formerly Caldera) founders came from, and perhaps even Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself. Links and further information within.
If you have been paying as close attention as I have been to the current and near future of Microsoft, the Windows operating system, and Microsoft's most recent purchases, then you are likely to come to the following conclusion. If you haven't, then read on.
Libranet is a commercial Debian distribution. If you hold the belief that Debian Linux is genuine only if it doesn't cost anything, then read no further. Commercial Debian distributions do, indeed, exist. Some, such as Storm, Progeny and Corel Linux, have come and gone, whether for good reasons or bad, but Libranet and Xandros (as well as the Xandros derivative Lindows) are still around. How long they exist depends, of course, on whether Linux users feel such distributions are worth paying for.
Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of our AMD64
technology preview. This preview is for those who are interested in
early access to a Red Hat distribution for the AMD64 platform.
There is a line from the movie Star Trek V, The Final Frontier that I think is very parallel to the situation between SCO, IBM, and the development of the Linux kernel. In an otherwise medicore movie, there's this one scene where Capt. Kirk cuts to the heart of all of the philosophical debate about this being called God the officers of the Enterprise have just met.
Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride refuses to release that information out of fear the community would “launder the evidence.”
Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday. McBride's accusation cuts to the heart of the open-source movement's legal and philosophical underpinnings.
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