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There is also no reason to think that the RIAA will lose most of the cases. In fact, Copyright law is unambiguously hostile to people who swap music files over the Internet. Even worse, according to Fred von Lohmann, an intellectual-property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The remedies are so terrifying that even if you have a good defense, you have to think twice."

There is also no reason to think that the RIAA will lose most of the cases. In fact, Copyright law is unambiguously hostile to people who swap music files over the Internet. Even worse, according to Fred von Lohmann, an intellectual-property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The remedies are so terrifying that even if you have a good defense, you have to think twice."

• MIT's RAW project
  
• Berkeley's Garp architecture
  
• CMU's PipeWrench

And according to this article, what about SoBig.F which "managed to infect half a million computers worldwide?" Wasn't SoBig.F a problem for Windows only?

Bravo for the effort... but, methinks they could do this more cheaply (although, not 64-bit) with stock PC hardware.

Pundits say the machine is actually cheap. For a 64-bit machine with all the I/O and bus trimmings it is priced nicely. The only thing I'm amazed at is that VT didn't wait for headless cluster-only Xserves. Rack mounting the G5 case looks like it would be a hassle and a shame.

Wind River Systems made the following acquisitions and sales:

In May 2000, they bought AudeSi for $40,000,000 and Norwegian company ICESoft for $25,000,000

In April 2001, they bought the software assets of Berkeley Software Design Inc.

There's an interesting quote from Business Week at this time.

owning the assets of an open-source software company doesn't guarantee gaining access to the talent of programmers in the open-source community

Rather not surprisingly, in January 2002, they sold FreeBSD

From Algonet: Diab Data was bought by ISI who in turn were bought by Wind River Systems. EST Corporation were also bought out by Wind River Systems.

I guess Wind River Systems were just trying to expand to fill their niche market.

When MIT initially opposed the court subpoena requested by the lawyers of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the RIAA had not followed proper legal procedures. MIT's opposition was unrelated to whether MIT supports the theft of IP. Of course, MIT does not support such theft.

Some Americans side with the file sharers because they appear like "Robin Hoods" who steal from the rich music companies to give to the poor plain folks who must cough up $15 for a compact disc (CD) that contains only 1 desirable song. But come on, folks! Theft is theft regardless of how you color the matter.

Yes. There are nations where theft of intellectual property is rampant. Consider the rate of software piracy in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). Its rate of theft is about 90%. Do we really want the United States of America to resemble China? Can't we in the West live by a higher and better standard than China?

... from the desk of the reporter

BigChampagne?
"Because the current active audience numbers in the tens of millions, and is made up of highly motivated "early adopters," we have been able to observe close correlations between online interest and offline sales. "

or the RIAA?
"Says an RIAA spokesman: "In our view, piracy is the primary reason for the decline in sales."

I know who I'd tend to believe on that. How about you?

And the effect of the DMCA is central to my point: In the 40's, the RIAA would have had to get a judge to approve this violation of my right to privacy; today, thanks to the DMCA, all they have to do is open up a document template and send form letters containing my username to a court clerk and my ISP. It's a subpeona mill and I feel like it is a violation of the due process rights of anyone so targeted.

I'm not saying that filesharing should be legal or that the RIAA is wrong to sue filesharers, or even that they are wrong to issue these subpeonas under the terms of the DMCA. What I am saying is that the DMCA is bad law that allows any corporate entity with enough money and copyrights to become essentially a private, unsupervised enforcement agency. There's no chain of accountability, and no impetus to responsibility in this process. It certainly doesn't help that the RIAA's "fear and awe" (BusinessWeek) strategy doesn't even remotely resemble a rational attempt to fix the societal problem we seem to have regarding respect to copyright.

It might be nice to have the opportunity to teach kids not to steal music because it's wrong to do so, but this whisper will not be heard over the thunder of the RIAA's lesson: Don't steal music because if a big company owns it they will make a good level go at wrecking at least the next ten years of your life.

Yeah, jackass, they did get the source code. A more informed person than you did made the comment insightful.

And since Australia is next, if NZ comes under cyberattack, we'll know this guy really was Insightful.

DMCA is a tangle. Officers of the court decide what they think the law states.

It is all in the eye of the beholder:

Buisness Week And: Sklyarov

Yes, Microsoft is about money, but I wouldn't want to risk my investment money in a company with the medium term business issues Microsoft currently face, or in a company that engages in the same sorts of dubious accounting practices as Enron (don't ask, Google) and just hasn't been caught yet.

Microsoft's accounting issues are diametric from those of Enron.

Microsoft did its best to hide revenue because the Street has a habit of punishing firms that get their earnings erratically. Stocks drop when companies beat their projections. Analysts see it as the CFO not understanding what's going on with the business... If you think Microsoft is the only company that "manages" earnings, you are incredibly mistaken. Microsoft's biggest issue is simply the size of its war chest-- not the worst kind of issue to deal with. See this BW article: Microsoft's $49 Billion "Problem."

Enron on the other hand was hiding debt in its subsidiaries to get it off the balance sheet in an attempt to appear solvent. We all know what happened there....

The two companies have basically nothing in common.

Hey man, you don't have to make apologies for suggesting Devine Providence. Just because because I'm a Lib doesn't mean I go into apoplectic fits. I actually have much respect for religious people.

Soo.... Whew... Lots.... Thanks for the reply, though I doubt I reply in kind.

My first reply gave the Falwell and Coulter quotes. Thurmond was a segregationist. Helms was a segregationist. And there's Lott's infamous speech last December. Now, I'm not calling all Conservatives racists, but we are talking about Conservative Senators in powerful positions.

I acknowledge that there are Leftists and wackos on my side who are racist against whites, Israelis, and probably Polynesian pigmies, too. They tend to not get repeatedly elected to the US Senate by Liberals, though.

And racism isn't the only thing. Conservatives pressured Dole into giving back a small contribution from the Log Cabin Republicans. Now, this is a stretch but this is my thinking - Contributions are seen as political speech, and some powerful groups on the Right suppressed the Log Cabins' speech. Sure, it was the Right's perogerative, but it greatly implies a bigotry.

Err... Abortion. Sticky subject, always a messy topic. Suffice to say, I and many Libs I know feel that abortion is overused, and it would be much better for those children to not be conceived.

The secular materialism of our culture, reinforced by the leftist cultural elites (movies, TV, music, etc) have convinced people to dump their kids in day care to pursue careers, usually in the pursuit of material possessions or societal status (selfish reasons). Children need their parents and one of them should be home with them.

I agree that latch-key kids are a problem. My own sister is a single mom, and she has to find a sitter every day so she can work. It's not something she wants to do. She doesn't do it because of TV, movies, or music. She does it out of economic necessity. I don't even know any couples who can *afford* to keep one parent home. These aren't materialistic people. They don't live outside their means. Of course a living wage would solve the problem, but Conservatives tend to be against wage increases because of a mistaken idea that jobs are lost.

Okay, so there are too many abortions, and too many children born to teens. But Conservatives are against condoms in schools or teaching kids about masturbation? It's not directly a human right, but it contributes to abuses.

How about my right to live in a clean environment? Last I checked, grandfathering in several thousand factories and plants from new guidelines doesn't improve my environment.

Free speach? Ashcroft said ""To those who pit Americans against immigrants and citizens against noncitizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends." Not a ringing endorsement of free speech and criticism of one's government.

Where's the Convservative equivalent of the ACLU? I ask because most people say the ACLU is a Liberal group.

If I were gay, there are vocal Conservative groups that would want to keep me out of the armed services, out of teaching, off television, and most frightening, from having sex with consenting males. Why can't consenting adults have sex with one another?

I like it how the SCO lawyer is trying to plug the worst leaks:

Michael Heise, a partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner who's representing SCO, downplayed concerns that the contested code may be covered by an open-source license. In an interview with CNET News.com at the SCO show, Heise said even if, hypothetically, some older Caldera code were open-source, it wouldn't make a difference to the case.

"Let's say you have a hundred files, and you put one of your hundred files under the GPL (GNU General Public License). That doesn't mean you've lost the rights to your other 99 files," Heise said. "So I don't think it's going to have an impact."

Hilarious. Such a brave little hero.

Well, at least according to their executives, which I have my doubts. The PHBs could have just show them the whole linux source code, and I doubt most people in the audience would have a clue.

I do wonder if the investors didn't have to sign NDAs and if someone was able to take note of those "stolen" lines of code.

Best quotes from the article:
McBride said pattern-recognition experts SCO hired have ferreted out a slew of infringing code in Linux.
Yeah sure, who are these pattern-recognition experts and are they your executives?

"They have found already a mountain of code," McBride said. "The DNA of Linux is coming from Unix."
Only thing I can say about this is it sure sounds like a good PR FUD line to use to increase investor confidence.

This article in Businessweek says that sco has been displaying the code at the conference. The part I thought truly ironic was that they were touting a revision of openserver featuring samba 3.0. The more you look at the tactics and the players behavior the more this appears to be a microsoft move.

"Monday, CEO Darl McBride outlined the company's legal strategy and tried to convince SCO partners and customers that it is fighting the good fight.

``We're fighting for the right in the industry to be able to make a living selling software, McBride told the audience. The fight was for the ability ``to send your children to college and ``to buy a second home, he added." -- story

He's clearly delusional.

The next generation of Apple computers will run Intel or AMD 64 bit processors with the Linux-based OSX.

You state it as if it were a fact.

I seriously doubt that claim.

PalmOne?

Does this mean they're going to take Handspring's OS, change a few strings, add some placeboware, call it a revolutionary new product, and go headfirst into IPO?

Or maybe i'm confusing them with someone else...

MS is getting into the antivirus and firewall software business. That's why they bought GeCad.

6 days changes a lot in the graphics card business...... So much for Nvidia cashes in on Xbox chips

I was reading about Moissanite, and the names of the companies sounded so familiar... Then I remembered where I saw them; the two companies involved in the production and commercialization of Moissanite are currently in the process of blowing up.

... they came back and said: "if you go down this path, we are going to disengage. We are not going to do any more business with you, and we are going to encourage others not to do any more business with you." That was in fact what happened.

The company said "we are going to disengage with you" has a worldwide reputation for "adult behavior" in the computer industry. Indeed, it's a cliche that no one ever got fired
for buying products from them.

[and not some ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven company who has come up with the vaccine. Thank's to the last part of Soviet, this vaccine may come to use even for the ones who need it the most (poor African and Asian countries) and not only the people who can afford it.

You couldn't possibly be talking about the same ultra-capitalist country who wants to give a 25 billion dollars to Africa while it's country is in the middle of a recession could you?

Yes, the big evil US empire that allows foreign workers to take US jobs via the H-1B and other liberal immigration/foreign labor laws, and who's pharmaceutical industry charges it's own citizens more money for prescription drugs than foreign countries. If an HIV vaccine were found in the US, the US citizens would pay the most for us.

Yes, the ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven nation has it out for you.

oops, pressed the wrong button...

Anyway Scott has had a lot of interesting things to say recently including saying of the IT industry "We're down to three - IBM, Microsoft, and Sun. The rest is collateral damage.", of the M$ top brass "Ballmer and Gates are drop outs" and of Redhat "With Red Hat you get the kernel. With Sun you get the application server". Last time I checked Redhat is a little more than that.

I was thinking could all this big talking be a McBride like attempt to raise the stock price of his new 1.5 million shares? Or am I jumping to conclusions because their names both begin with Mc?

Tom.

So, why did the Chinese develop a new compression standard? The reason is fascism, which is nationalism based on race. Consider the following.

1. Several years ago, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that it would stop using English at press briefings for foreign journalists even though English is the universal language that the foreign ministries of most countries use to communicate with foreign journalists. The Chinese insisted that foreign journalists learn Mandarin as all future press briefings would be conducted in Mandarin..
2. The Chinese have repeatedly said, "We reject decadent Western capitalism. We accept only capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
3. Consider Taiwan. Until about 1990, the Chinese beat and slapped any Taiwanese student who spoke Taiwanese in class. About 15% of the Taiwanese population considers themselves Taiwanese. The other 85% considers themselves Chinese. (Imagine the justifiable outrage that good folks in the West would feel if students were slapped for speaking Spanish in schools in Florida.)

The only effective way for the West to combat Chinese fascism is to acknowledge it and to fight it. Currently, the United States of America (USA) has a policy of giving China an immigration quota of 60,000, which is divided evenly among Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. We should immediately slash that quota down to 20,000, which is the allotment given to all other countries (like Canada, Japan, etc.) We should consider reducing that quota even further -- down to 10,000.

Still, since the Chinese claim that fascism is so wonderful, then there is no reason for them to flee from China to the USA. Therein, we can justify reducing the immigration quota to zero.

If you need evidence of breaking up a monopoly failures , look at the baby bells.

Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger argued strenuously in 1981 that the Justice Dept. should drop its suit against AT&T because the military needed a single, integrated communications network.

Arno A. Penzias, a Nobel laureate at Bell Laboratories, testified that the world-class labs would become a ''sinking ship'' if AT&T were broken up.

Penzias [now] says the breakup got Bell Labs focused on customers: ''They still create jewels, but more of them are made into jewelry,''

But curiously that article makes no mention of telephone costs. Here's a graph showing that telephone costs have fallen (well, risen quite a bit slower than general inflation). I imagine most of that benefit is in long distance.

for those too lazy to figure it out, here's the first link from the parent all fixed up and linkified

Interesting look at the situation, albeit in the situation 3 years ago.

Like in 2000?

For Microsoft, It's "Inactive TV" (businessweek)

And 2002?


Microsoft likely to miss key test on interactive TV(and they did)(zdnet)

Boeing and Intel have been working with several airlines on installation of paid-access WiFi on commercial airliners. As for cell access ... even if it is determined that there is no safety threat (and there probably is not), cellphones aren't designed to work at 550 miles per hour and 40,000 feet in the air. They're flaky enough on the ground. They may work on approach or takeoff, but airliners don't waste any time getting to altitude, where engines operate more efficiently in the extremely cold air.

Slight off topic, but we haven't had a SCO story for a couple of days:

Next month, SCO will tell companies that use or distribute Linux, such as Red Hat Inc., that they need to buy a license, says McBride

"SCO Group will publicly discuss potential solutions" ... "expected to hold a news conference 9 July": "It's unclear what SCO Group has in mind, but compensation and prevention of future code misuse are possibilities"

Darl McBride is flying over to Japan to try and put his case to the CE Linux Forum (CELF). This story also has some further comments by analysts, which give additional interesting hints about the allegedly infringing code.

Trusting Microsoft to protect computer users from spam is like putting telemarketers in charge of the do-not-call list.

I have to pay even more for a version of windows I don't want and will just fdisk away for a hardware upgrade. Wonderfull. Don't see an OS free option eaither, man MS has the manufactures by the balls on this. Looks like a great notebook to put mplayer and the Gimp on to.

As stated earlier, I think they could possibly have worked a 10 key number pad off to the side, that would have made a great addition to.

Give it a roll up LCD and a keyboard and you might even be able to fit the whole thing in a bag for portability.

I don't know what SCO's position on the GPL is now, but according to an article today, it does sound like they want to be paid licenses by companies using GPL software (Linux), even if they didn't get it from SCO:

From: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_27 /b3840089.htm - Next month, SCO will tell companies that use or distribute Linux, such as Red Hat Inc., that they need to buy a license, says McBride.

According to the recently discussed Business Week article,

"Analysts estimate business-software customers spend $5 installing and fixing their software for every $1 they spend on software."

With a global support base of people with the same software, open source will rapidly lower support costs. Today people get far more information and many times higher quality information on problems via the net than they do from a manufacturer.

And beyond support, you can now directly hire people to work on the software changes you need to make your business work. That means you don't have to wait years for your vendor to listen to you. In today's hyper-competitive global business market, the time you save may be the difference between your business succeeding or failing.

All in all, open source is a giant win for business. Hopefully we can soon move past the incredible amount of FUD the closed source vendors are promulgating in the market.

If Slate wanted to generate as much reaction as possible for an article, Boutin couldn't have chosen a better way to sensationalize some pretty tame analyst conjecture. This story isn't new, and heck - I even suspect that regurgitated analyst conjecture has been wrong in the past. But even if it isn't wrong this time, who cares? Boutin presents an eclipse of MacOS by Linux as another death knell for Apple, when in fact it presents the greatest opportunity Apple Computer has seen in decades. This is for 3 fundamental reasons:

1. Linux will not be replacing Macs, they'll be replacing current & future Windows boxes. They will be the new systems of price-conscious IT managers or consumers or who would have otherwise used cheap Windows systems anyways. Where Linux is making desktop inroads (with the corporate & enterprise set) Apple has never has had, and probably never will have, any significant acceptance. And nobody can credibly say that Apple's core users - people who work with graphics & music, publishers, etc - will dump their platform and be using Gimp et al instead of Photoshop & MSOffice this decade. Neither will the grandmas of the world anyday soon be getting Linux boxes instead of dead-simple iMacs from their adult children so they can chat with the grandkids. Boutin is right that Linux is growing, but Linux is not eating into Apple's market share to any significant extent.

2. Linux acceptance means more willingness to look at all alternatives to Windows. If we, as consumers or enterprise managers or whomever, are considering going with something other than what we're used to, all options are suddenly open for discussion. The hard part is stepping away from the psychologically safe, familiar zone of Windows to start with; after that, most people don't care what they run so long as they can do what they need to with minimum hassle. The more people use Linux, the more they will consider a Mac, and vice versa.

3. More Linux adoption directly results in more Mac software. Porting is easy, and how many app developers wouldn't spend a few days (nearly a worst-case scenario) to make MacOS X-compatible versions of their software for minimal cost, opening up a market of millions? Furthermore, the more people using Linux, the more users out there will be familiar with the *nix conventions and tools that are also permeate MacOS X, so switching from one to the other will be increasginly like going from KDE to Gnome rather than to/from something foreign.

Boutin is wrong to imply that growing market share for Linux will eat away at Apple's customers. Analogies to Sun & SGI are misleading, since these companies are competing with Linux in the same market spaces that Linux has strength in, and may not show enough beneficial differentiation from Linux to be considered a better solution for the same needs. Apple, however, is very significantly differentiated in the minds of most people from Linux - how many people would confuse the two? - and presents real & imagined specialized benefits that are not seen to be available elsewhere, certainly not with Linux. I won't even comment on his analogies to the XBox vs. Playstation & Gamecube, it's so irrelevant. Wost of all, Boutin pits Linux vs. Apple, predicting Apple will be another "friendly fire" casualty. The two communities have so much to gain from one another by an increased acceptance of either, that one should really consider a success for one to be a success for the other (and the *BSDs as well). A nice try at inflammatory writing, though.

For several years, Apple has lagged in the megahertz race. Motorola's G4 processors have only slowly improved in performance, while Intel and Advanced Micro Devices crank out ever-faster chips at a much swifter clip. Megahertz isn't everything when it comes to performance, but increasing the clock speed generally does boost chip and computer performance.

Yeah the writer eventually says megahertz isn't everything, but fails to grasp that megahertz isn't anything. The only scale that matters is how much work the system can do. Megahertz doesn't even have to enter into the discussion.

Btw, for the record, I'm a PC owner/user who probably won't switch, but still thinks these new Macs, along with the AMD Opteron chips, are the best news to come along in a good long while for all of us!

Get plenty of responses. But I think your argument is a little one sided. My point would be we are all ignorant of the long term effects of rampant and unchecked use of genetic modifacation. And that alone is enough reason to consider moving carefully. Progress, sure but don't deny your own ignorance.

The consequences of a such a young (and cash hungry) industry industry could be exceptional. Thats worth questioning. Look at the pharmacuetical industry and remember that their reach is somewhat limited. I mean do you really trust the pharmaceutical industry?

Genetics as a science may be a little different as a industry.

He's getting old and rich

The CEO who delivered least for shareholders, for the second consecutive year, was Oracle's Ellison, whose massive 2001 haul, combined with a plunging stock price, virtually assured a poor pay-for-performance comparison. An Oracle spokesman said Ellison declined to comment.

Joining Ellison on the list were other execs who managed to reel in big bucks despite poor performance. Among them: Sun Microsystem's (SUNW ) Scott McNealy. In three years, he hauled in $53.1 million, mostly through option exercises, while investors saw the value of their Sun shares decline by 92%. And McNealy's riches are likely to continue. In 2002, he was awarded 3.5 million options. They're under water now, but the company estimates they have a future value of $24 million. A Sun spokesman said that most of the options McNealy exercised in 2002 had lost the bulk of their value and were about to expire. McNealy, who takes only a $100,000 salary, kept most of the shares.

The Slashdot story and the Blog buzz all say this is about a bunch of developers wanting their own JBoss fork. The Core Developers party line is that they just don't want to be tied to JBoss to the exclusion of competing products. Any other explanations?

Probably there's some truth to all these stories.

It won't happen without the cooperation of the big entertainment companies, who are very wary of giving Microsoft too much power.

This article from the current issue of BusinessWeek summarizes the situation well.

Too bad that their case was dismissed already.

The combined companies that make up the RIAA have released fewer new tiles. See the BusinessWeek article and this article by George Ziemann of MacWizards Music

If I understand basic accounting correctly, then releasing 20% fewer new titles should reduce expenses somwhat (admittedly not by quite 20%), so suffering only a 7% drop in sales should look like an increase in profits, unless you are expiriencing losses other than in sales.

I have learned of much of the new music I listen to through CDBaby.com and I'm sure that the RIAA companies are not very happy about losing customers to artists that don't care much for the typical record company contract.

It seems the companies are once again not being quite honest about thier losses, the causes, and, it seems, thier motives.

The combined companies that make up the RIAA have released fewer new tiles. See the BusinessWeek article and this article by George Ziemann of MacWizards Music

If I understand basic accounting correctly, then releasing 20% fewer new titles should reduce expenses somwhat (admittedly not by quite 20%), so suffering only a 7% drop in sales should look like an increase in profits, unless you are expiriencing losses other than in sales.

I have learned of much of the new music I listen to through CDBaby.com and I'm sure that the RIAA companies are not very happy about losing customers to artists that don't care much for the typical record company contract.

It seems the companies are once again not being quite honest about thier losses, the causes, and, it seems, thier motives.

This is great stuff for tech geeks, but publications that your boss is reading such as this article over as business week are what your boss(you know, the guy who pays your salary) are reading. I would say this whole debacle is having quite the intended effect.

Ahhh, another company damaged by Ellen Hancock.

• IBM's PRGS ("Programming Systems") Laboratories, of which she was the overall manager
  
• Apple Computer Corp, as the right-hand of Gil Amelio
  
• Exodus Communications, where she was CEO
  
• Global Crossing, the poor sots that ended up with 108 million worthless shares of Exodus
  

• Cable and Wireless, another batch of poor sots that bought parts of Exodus
  

So, what other companies and organizations are on the watch-list?

• Aetna
  
• Colgate-Palmolive
  
• Marist College
  
• Santa Clara University
  

Disclaimer: Well, duh ... of course I am a disgruntled ex-employee of Ms. Hancock back when she was a IBMer. I just did not realize how bad she really was ... even if none of this was her fault, she has still been at the epicenter of many closed office buildings over the years.

Lots of people are posting that the business world has never heard of this story and doesn't care. Read this: Does Linux Have a Dark Secret?

For the last six years the averaged revenue growth is 7.2 - 9.8% (except for the year 2000 probably due to the recession). That's pretty good figures. For the years 1980-1995, before high speed Internet, the average revenue growth was 5.2% a year.

2. The data you are showing is relative to ticket sales in theaters, where DeCSS is a non-issue. DeCSS affects the sale of VHS and DVD products by diluting the market for those goods with "pirate" copies that are either free or cheap.

You are right here. The increase in DVD sales is much more impressive than the revenue growth of the ticket sales.

DVDs conquer the movie world

WARNER-HOME-VIDEO-DVD Sales Soar

BusinessWeek

Blockbuster Sees Revenue, Profit Growth in Q1

4. Just using the numbers you linked to, the movie makers are actually losing more money than ever. So I suggest not using these numbers in any rational debate about the subject at hand.

The Domestic Grosses are just part of moviemakers revenue. There are also Overseas Grosses, which excide the domestic grosses. There are also rental revenue, merchandise sells, and VHS and DVD sells.

Warner's 4Q revenue rose to $11.4 billion from $10.6 billion, as strong box office and DVD sales and improvingCNN Money

Fox Post Profit Gains

The Ever-Expanding, Profit-Maximizing, Cultural-Imperialist, Wonderful World of Disney

I just did a Google News search and there appears to be some official word out.

Business Week has interviewed the CEO of SCO Darl McBride here. McBride gives some tips as to where IBM may have used their code. Specifically:

" In the last 18 months, we found that IBM had donated some very high-end enterprise-computing technologies into open-source. Some of it looked like it was our intellectual property and subject to our licensing agreements with IBM. Their actions were in direct violation of our agreements with them that they would not share this information, let alone donate it into open-source. We have examples of code being lifted verbatim.
And IBM took the same team that had been working on a Unix code project with us and moved them over to work on Linux code. If you look at the code we believe has been copied in, it's not just a line or two, it's an entire section -- and in some cases, an entire program. "