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Most of you have probably already seen this, but I enjoy this dance video and thought I would share with those who have not seen it.

This is not breaking news. It's just plain old regular news even though it is happening withing 15 minutes. CNN reports that Jackson will be turning himself in within 30 minutes

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSStudents fund sexual bondage clubGroup leader says 'receiving the money is a triumph for diversity' Posted: November 6, 20035:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A college student group that teaches about bondage and other sexual fetishes has been granted funding by the school's student leaders. The Iowa State University student body government voted 21-9 yesterday to give $94 to a group called Cuffs, the Des Moines Register reported. Leaders of the club say they need the money for promotional purposes, to help increase attendance at its meetings. "Receiving the money is a triumph for diversity," said Cuffs' president, Duane Long...

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...

An open-source letter October 1, 2003, 4:00 AM PT By Joe Firmage The current flap between SCO Group and the Linux community brings back memories of summer 1995. It was an unforgettable time for me, in a bad way. As vice president of strategy for Novell's Network Systems Group, I had been working for more than a year to help plan the integration of NetWare and Unix into a next-generation network operating system. Our engineering teams were a year into a three-year development plan, targeting 1997 or 1998 for the release of a breakthrough converged platform to be called NetWare...

"Time to Combat SCO's FUD More Strategically," Says Analyst September 29, 2003 Summary Analyst Rob Enderle is enjoining the Linux community to start thinking more strategically and to move against the real threat that SCO represents - as a spreader of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux. Read Story Email Story Print Story Read/Add Feedback About LinuxWorld News Desk By LinuxWorld News Desk Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, is saying today that the Linux community needs to think strategically and move against the real threat that SCO represents - fear, uncertainty, and doubt. “The community must encourage...

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...

<p>Anti-war demonstrators who are arrested in the future in San Francisco will have something more in common than a shared passion. Many of them will probably be taken away in handcuffs made of braided nylon that their manufacturer touts as "the inescapable choice in disposable restraints."</p>

Some of you are probably really tired of seeing Susan Estrich's big mouth and her arms flailing away on the television screen. To this day, I am still amazed that someone like Estrich gave Clinton unwaivering support. She is, after all, herself a rape victim. At a FReep in Century City, during Impeachment time, a group of us was letting people know who were entering a Clinton speaking event that a rapist was loose in the building. I got into an argument with a Clinton supporter who actually claimed to be a Libertarian. I asked her if her opinion of...