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I'm not sure if I understand your post.

But on modern TVs it's better to toss the RF modulator and instead use a RCA to F-Jack adapter to connect to the antenna jack on Channel 3.

(eg. http://www.gigaweb.com/products/view/17206/rca-female-to-f-male-adapter.html)

Linux and other open source projects require too much customization, and doubts about the legitimacy of open source code could get users tangled up in lawsuits. Besides, many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents. Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source -- or at least thinking through the possible liabilities

I now honestly believe that Linux and open source are big, bald-faced lies perpetrated on the industry by itself. ... How many credible people told each other with a straight face that profit didn't matter? This seems much too similar to "free software" to me.

This guy also predicted one year ago that Macs would today be running on x86 hardware: http://www.gigaweb.com/Content/Media/AdHoc/Desktop Trends.pdf

The Mercury News article quotes Rob Enderle, president of a 'technology research firm' as one of it's sources. A quick google search on this guy reveals he does nothing but generate quotes for news articles.

I did finally turn up some background on him here. He has a background in marketing, and market research into Microsoft products and trends. He actually has the distinction of being the most widely quoted analyst one year!

Not someone I'd consider an expert on viruses, or the internals of operating systems.

The supposed industry analyst quoted in the article is a MSFT pawn. Quote from the Giga Site: "His current client activities include helping companies work with Microsoft." Take a look at his Resume it would be hard to find someone that dosen't work for Microsoft that would have a bigger stake in making silly claims about SCOs credibility.

Has anyone figured out what good copying every 3rd line of code could possibly be?

Maybe this what he saw is:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

if (argc == 0) {
printf("Welcome to the central module \n");
return 1;
} else {
startCoronelSanders(argv);
return 0;
}

}

"The 1,500 companies who received letters from SCO [about potential infringements] should be worried, big time," said Rob Enderle, a research fellow for the Giga Information Group (Santa Clara, Calif.). Based on what he saw, Enderle said, "The evidence appears to be very compelling."

Ohh.. Rob Enderle a previous IBM employee whose research and client list includes "Anticipating changes in Microsoft products and organizational direction" and "Microsoft". Sound like someone I'd trust to comment on SCO vs IBM? Yeah...

How'd she get mixed up in this? :) SCO needs a qualified and trusted programmer to represent their claims.

She used to work for Giga Information Group. It's good to see that SCO is letting reporters see the code.

Hrm... even if she's right ...

Laura DiDio is an analyst covering Windows 2000 and third-party products and utilities.

Laura comes to Giga after having spent 12 years covering the networking industry as a reporter in the high-tech trade press. She was most recently at Computerworld where she was the senior editor, networking, from 1994 to 1998. Prior to that, she held similar positions at LAN Times, Network World, Internet Week (formerly Communications Week) and Digital Review. She also worked as an on-camera investigative reporter for CNN and Channel 11 News in Minneapolis, Minn. Her investigative reports have also appeared in such publications as the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and The Village Voice.

Laura earned a B.A. in communications with a minor in French at Fordham University.

One of the first questions to come to mind is "who is Laura Didio?" Some googling around will find a lot of references to her. And a couple of Bios - the already referenced HTML-ized cache copy of a PDF document might be the most recent. There is also an older one from her previous employer, the Giga Information Group. But don't stop there. Hit a few articles where Laura is quoted. Google for her and unix / linux. Look at the quotes there too.

Laura Didio's focus, as her Bios suggest, seems to be Windows and Microsoft products. And in this space, she is sometimes critical. She also comments on some Open Source software with how it competes with the entrenched Microsoft offerings. And she does occasionally comment on Unix and Linux in general. She is cautious towards Open Source and Linux in particular. If she does have a bias against Linux, it does not seem over-the-top (although I don't always agree with her assessments).

But bias isn't the point. It is expertise. She does not focus on Unix and its derivatives. I would find it surprising if she had any idea of the history involved with this system. Much less any sort of additional technical background it would take to hash out the possible origins of any given snippit of code.

And, of course, that is part of the problem. We're dealing with snippits of code. There is no context. Even an expert may have trouble tracking pedigrees in this situation - but at least they would have some chance.

The most Laura can do is get her name in the press. And become an object lesson for the warnings other analysists made over the entire situation presented by SCO and its NDA.

While not a codemonkey, Laura seems to have reasonable credentials.

Here is her gigaweb bio, and a brief from the Yankee Group (scroll down, page 2).

This is more like asking a Pilot or an Air Traffic Controller to compare two planes than a farmer (as others have suggested), but I don't think anyone will be satisfied until at least a few mechanics can get into the systems with wrenches.

Even then, if SCO would kindly display what lines they believe are duplicated so that the Linux community can begin the task of tracking down the contributors, then we can have a discussion. Having NDA'd analyists examine the code only is like having the city and a city-appointed lawyer have discussions about the legality of your house while you are explicitly forbidden from coming to the table. Because so much of our livelihood depends upon it, and we have invested so much in it, nobody will accept the judgement unless we are allowed to see the proof.

And even then, of course, there will need to be proof that this *is* SCO code, and not just same-function code, statistical coincidence, or code that SCO stole from Linux.

BTW, caldera has a list (with pictures!) of the board of directors here. Perhaps a few million phone calls will convince them to do what they should have done in the first place and tell us what code exactly they think is copied. Without being able to research their claims due to the choice of the board of directors, we should at least investigate their board of directors.

-C

Lifted from here -

Find out what 'Volume Licensing Options for 2003' really mean for your enterprise from industry expert, Laura DiDio. Laura's expertise in the industry has taken her from being a reporter in the high-tech trade press to covering the networking industry's top analyst firms. She is currently an analyst at Yankee Group where she covers Microsoft's initiatives.

Look's like she's still covering Microsoft's Initiatives. Anyone want to see a pic of this hottie? ;)

She looks like she could have some credibility having as much press experience as she has, but I'm still concerned that she's just looking at the comments versus code. -B

Giga information group rings a bell with me too, old MS yay and Apple/Linux/everything else nay sayers :)

In the same vein this article http://www.gigaweb.com/mktg/man_sec_mon/cpane2.asp compares various managed security services, which also offer and utilize some of the various IDS systems you've mentioned.