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Original Song By Walter Kittredge (1864) Update-Parody by Coral Snake (2003) MIDI - TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND click on the WHITE title for the midi 1. We're surfing tonight on the Linux box. We see something to cheer SCO's pump 'n' dump was found out now, As SCO execs should fear. (CHORUS) Many are the hearts that are happy tonight, Now our Linux shall stay free; SCO execs in jumpsuits of orange bright Means penguin victory. Surfing tonight, Surfing tonight, Surfing on the Linux Box. 2. Been surfing tonight on the Linux box, Watching SCO FUD and lie,...

SGI compares Linux, Unix source code IDG News Service 10/6/03 Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau An open letter to the Linux community published by Silicon Graphics Inc. indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by The SCO Group Inc. According to the letter, authored by SGI Vice President of Software Rich Altmaier, SGI conducted an "exhaustive comparison" of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code, which turned up only "trivial" code segments that "may arguably be related" to SCO's software. The...

Monday September 29, 2003 - [ 03:16 PM GMT ] Topic - Press Releases LINDON, Utah--September 29, 2003--The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX) today made the following announcement: On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant...

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter Tells SCO to expect legal action By Egan Orion: Saturday 20 September 2003, 11:33 A GROUP from the open source / free software community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with their research. µ Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source / free software community. Because you addressed your...

Groklaw's Open Letter to SCO's CEO Darl McBride Saturday, September 20 2003 @ 12:21 PM EDT Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source/free software community. Because you addressed your letter to our community-at-large, we thought we should answer you ourselves. Our community isn't organized hierarchically like a corporation, so it has no CEO or overall leader in that sense, except that Linus Torvalds leads Linux kernel development and Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project and the Free...

In a phone conversation today with Erik Monninkhof, CFO and co-founder of Dupaco, the sole distributor of SCO product in the Netherlands, I learned that it's not just competing Linux distributions that are suffering since SCO changed management. According to Monninkhof, Dupaco has had a relationship with SCO for 18 years. In 1986, they drove from COMDEX in Las Vegas to Santa Cruz and, for $5000, became distributors of SCO Xenix in the Netherlands. During the following years, they successfully sold SCO products, outlasting other Netherlands companies that also tried to sell SCO to eventually become the sole distributor. To...

Raving Luni, aka Ron of Linux-Universe has contributed this interesting analysis of the current battle raging against Open Source, and by extension, Freedom in general. Sun is behind it too, very much. The Unholy Trinity shares one common issue: "Open Source software is eating into their profits". So they all support this action in a desperate attempt to save their business model. Here are the patients: SCO is in critical condition, so they go first. Sun is in serious condition, they will come too, more forcefully if they don't find a successful business arround OSS first. So they play both...

<p>Linux users to SCO: Forget it! Linux & Open Source Center Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a few ideas about what SCO can do with its license.</p> <p>What would you do if you got an invoice from a company demanding payment for software that you've never bought from them? Throw it in the trash, right?</p>

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO Group, sent the following letter, dated Sept. 9, 2003, to the Open Source community: The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM alleging that SCO's proprietary UNIX code has been illegally copied into the free Linux operating system. In...

SCO Run-Time License Ready Fri Sep 5, 1:16 PM ET Add Technology - Ziff Davis to My Yahoo! Peter Galli - eWEEK The SCO Group has been threatening corporate Linux (news - web sites) users with legal action unless they obtain a license for its intellectual property, but until now, businesses have been unable to buy that license. • Vetting SCO's Linux Lawsuits • SCO 'Off Their Rocker' • Innocents Caught in SCO-Linux Cross Fire • More Security News • More Tech News The Lindon, Utah, company last week began selling its SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux, a run-time...

Just a heads up that gold appears to be breaking through another resistance level at 370 in early trading in Asia. Platinum has also broken above a 5-year resistance level. Here's the chart. Since it's a live chart, I have no idea whether it will stay at these levels or not, but it seems worth a heads-up, at any rate. Make of it what you will: