The only good, broad use I've found for blogs are professional/niche blogs - ones that keep a particular field up-to-date on goings-on. See How Appealing for an excellent example from the leagl field - specifically the area of appellate law. There appear to be many good examples in the legal field.
However, I do agree that most are navel-gazing drivel.
Personally, when I used to work from several different places/computers, I've used a blog as an online troubleshooting log to keep track of problems I've chased and their solutions - but that was very personal, and not intended for public, or long-lived consumption.
SCO's press release:
"SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.
SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees.
We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation."
From talking to an lawyer friend & looking at the Novell claims, this completely undermines SCO's claims against the Linux community but NOT IBM.
Basically, SCO has the right to sue the snot out of any UNIX System V licensee that redistributes UNIX code without permission.
HOWEVER!!!!
Only Novell has the right to sue those who are infringing their copyrights and patents (i.e. users of the supposedly "polluted" forms of Linux) and they have proven today that they are not willing to do so.
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The only good, broad use I've found for blogs are professional/niche blogs - ones that keep a particular field up-to-date on goings-on. See How Appealing for an excellent example from the leagl field - specifically the area of appellate law. There appear to be many good examples in the legal field.
However, I do agree that most are navel-gazing drivel.
Personally, when I used to work from several different places/computers, I've used a blog as an online troubleshooting log to keep track of problems I've chased and their solutions - but that was very personal, and not intended for public, or long-lived consumption.
if no one sees the overture ads, and lots see/click the google, then the google one does. It's not expenses that count - it's the resulting revenue.
SCO's press release: "SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor. Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights. SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees. We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation."
From talking to an lawyer friend & looking at the Novell claims, this completely undermines SCO's claims against the Linux community but NOT IBM.
Basically, SCO has the right to sue the snot out of any UNIX System V licensee that redistributes UNIX code without permission.
HOWEVER!!!!
Only Novell has the right to sue those who are infringing their copyrights and patents (i.e. users of the supposedly "polluted" forms of Linux) and they have proven today that they are not willing to do so.
Sometimes the good guys win!!