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You haven't been paying much attention to the SCO plan...

McBride said during a press briefing at the inaugural Enterprise IT Week at cdXpo Conference here. "We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused on the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys are going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year."
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3110981

So your precious Mac and BSD aren't safe from these clowns either. But then you likely don't really care since your just a cowardly troll.

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Linux copyrights and patents are safe and companies like IBM, Redhat and Novell will protect them.

http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3110981 SCO also said they were coming after BSD.

Here Ya Go

Here Ya go 2

Here Ya go 3

So where is the basis for your statement?

Ummmm...IDG hasn't published dummies books for three years (they sold the book line). I'm not sure why you contacted them. This book is published by Wiley.

Yes they have.

Provided that SCO ever gets beyond IBM, then with Linux vendors/customers/users, they promised they'd move on to attacking BSD.

But we all know that's never going to happen. Methinks SCO already bit off more than it could chew when it tried to tackle IBM.

Well, let's see...

• DaimlerChrysler is testing the Nokia Communicator, which "runs on an operating system from Nokia-controlled Symbian, a rival to Microsoft's Windows Mobile" ... " also promoting it as an alternative for companies that do not want to use only Microsoft software."
• DaimlerChrysler Corp. is working on a Linux-based management and navigation system for its cars.
• Related company: DaimlerChrysler Services used Unix and IBM software to merge its financial systems.
• Reporters say that DaimlerChrysler did not like Microsoft's annuity licensing plan and was examining Linux.
• DC using IBM Linux for car crash simulations.
• DC is a German/US merger, as is Novell/SuSe. Affecting DC may affect SuSe in its home market
• "IBM and the German government are getting together to implement Linux as the government's computing platform of choice."
• June 17, 1999, the Financial Post, Canada, Business Group Makes Push for Software Competition (pdf)

  The Canada Europe Round Table, launched yesterday, wants governments to take the lead in using operating systems such as Linux instead of Microsoft's proprietary Windows. The group of 28 companies -- which includes Bombardier Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., Corel Corp., DaimlerChrysler AG and Ericsson AG of Sweden -- suggests "competitive systems" such as Linux should be endorsed at the next round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks. ... "CERT member Corel" ...

• "Ferrari, Volvo and DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group are among the companies that have turned to IBM for systems built around Linux."
• DaimlerChrysler Services Management Awarded 'Best Service' for Progress-Based Application With SonicMQ Integration: Award-winner Uses Progress(R) OpenEdge(TM) (Both Progress and SonicMQ can run on Unix/Linux)
• MySQL has acquired full commercial rights to develop and market future releases of SAP DB, of which there are roughly 5,000 customer installations. SAP DB users include Intel, DaimlerChrysler, Braun, Bayer, Colgate, Yamaha and Toyota South Africa. MySQL and SAP are also developing a future MySQL enterprise database that uses both MySQL and MaxDB.
• DC has been a user of MS products (2003)

AutoZone...

• SCO had claimed that IBM interfered with a contract (which SCO has not provided) and helped AutoZone migrate from SCO software to Linux. But there already is evidence that AutoZone used no SCO software after the change and its own employees did the change. The same statement also indicates that SCO drove AutoZone away, not that IBM interfered. The Red Hat distribution and support was chosen.
• AutoZone is using Wincor Nixdorf Linux store/POS tools.
  Wincor Nixdorf customers:

  * AutoZone * Books-

They actually mention suing *BSD users too: "With our limited energies and what our guys are going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year."

I think it's SCO who is spreading most of the FUD here.

The mysterious IM warnings talked about an attack, but they didn't say where.

Sorry, I linked to the wrong page.

Yu said the redirection feature could also be exploited to download and execute a malicious file on a user's system.

You're right, it needs the browser to work. Still pretty damn close to a remote root exploit, in a Windows environment anyway. Visit a malicious webpage, and bang! you're rooted.

OK, before we start, let's be clear that you're completely wrong about that, on both counts.

Are you certain? Do you have a link to back that up?

This PC World Article contradicts your assertion. In addition, the SonicBlue Replay TV had a "send show" option that allowed the owner to send a recorded TV program to one other user (presumably a family member or friend). While this feature is being challenged in court, current law appears to allow this as "fair use". (There's an article here.)

There is a Wired news article here that indicates the lawsuit is still undecided.

According to this article, the group is actually closer to 400 members, but I'm inclined to trust CNet. Regardless, most are apparently one-man operations and the like; their chances of winning--let alone having the courts "block the major record labels from enforcing their otherwise legitimate intellectual property rights in sound recordings until the alleged violations are remedied" (according to the above atnewyork article)--are, I'd say, slim to none.

Are you guys familiar with In-Q-Tel? (It's mentioned in the article)

Here's an article.
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The destruction of the Columbia was considerably more expensive than the destruction of the World Trade Center.

no way. the only things comparing with the WTC are hurricanes, earthquakes and the like. we're talking about $83 billion.

I thought Michael Robertson had changed his ways when he started Lindows.

Sorry, no. MP3.com was a portal built by distributing commercial music without the owner's consent (my.mp3.com). Also, the Indie artists on there basically give up their rights in trade for hosting services and "payback for playback" that has in most cases earned them more money than they would make any other way.

Now he is doing the same thing with Lindows.com and GPL'd packages -- other people's work being sold. Compare http://mp3.com and http://lindows.com web sites and you will see they are very similar.

'MR' was told by his own engineers that what he was doing was (music)piracy. He blew it off, lost most of mp3.com's money to Universal studios, then sold the remnants to a French madman who soon found himself unemployed for wasting money on dot coms. Robertson will flirt with this again with GPL apps. and Lindows.com. Maybe Bill Gates will buy lindows in a year or two!

I don't think he is an evil or greedy genius. He just has a reality distortion field a la Steve Jobs.

If he has a genius, it is that he has found a way to build companies on the synergy between digital assets and broadband networking!

So much for optimism.

An article is at At New York.com dated back from August 2, 2001. It says the speed will allow Web surfing at speeds as high as 144Kbps and full 3G service promises to support speeds of 384Kbps and higher. Since the newer article from CNN doesn't say what the speed is, it could still be the same.

There is also an old article at CNN here.