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A recent court filing from IBM Corp. appears to indicate a growing confidence on the part of the Armonk, New York, computing giant that it will prevail in its legal dispute with The SCO Group Inc., according to lawyers following the case.    ADVERTISEMENT    RELATED LINKS [an error occurred while processing this directive] In an amended counterclaim to SCO's lawsuit that was filed Friday, IBM asked the District Court for the District of Utah to enter a declaratory judgement in its favor. IBM asked the court to rule that it has not infringed on SCO's copyright and has not breached...

Noah Johnson: Folding Proteins at Home By Barbara GibsonIn what is rapidly becoming a new world of democratic computing, Noah Johnson’s three Power Macs are humming quietly away, helping Stanford University scientists solve a complex problem that, one day, may help them fight disease. As part of a groundbreaking distributed computing experiment, Johnson and half a million other people are donating their spare computer capacity so Stanford can remotely simulate protein folding, an essential biochemical process that controls vital body functions. The project, called Folding@home, represents a sort of ad hoc democracy because anyone with an Internet connection can...

SCO Group has begun targeting Australian Linux users in its legal campaign to claim ownership of some code in the open-source operating system. SCO has engaged lawyers to "contact Linux users" about its controversial Linux licencing scheme, after its US legal counsel reached 1500 of the world's largest Linux users in May. SCO Australia-New Zealand general manager Kieran O'Shaugnessy would not say how many Australian organisations had been contacted, but claimed at least one sale had gone through for a SCO Linux licence. SCO said several US companies had bought the licences, including Computer Associates although CA disputed the claim....

The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released Thursday show. SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The letter to NERSC director Horst Simon used strong language in its effort to convince the research facility to buy a license that will let it use Linux without fear of SCO legal action. "I am...

IN CASE you have had your head in the proverbial sand, over the past week, the already listing SCO case had the air let out of it. The whiney leak you heard when Eric Raymond published the Halloween X memo suddenly turned into a big flappy farty sound. Mike Anderer, the 'brains' behind the MS 'not investment' into MS spilled the beans. I say 'not' in quotes because it wasn't a direct investment on MS's behalf. A few people working for MS happened to call up Baystar and suggest that they put a ton of money into SCO. Note the...

<p>Once the undisputed leader, America is now under assault from countries worldwide. How did this happen, and will the U.S. be able to fight back?</p> <p>In the history of the U.S. technology industry, 2004 will be remembered as the year that outsourcing hit home. Consultancy Gartner Group figures that U.S. tech companies will send 500,000 jobs overseas this year -- and indeed, hardly a week goes by without a major U.S. tech outfit announcing a new R&D center in Asia. As outsourcing has begun to hit high-salary jobs in programming and tech services, the trend is giving rise to a wider fear -- that U.S. dominance in high tech is starting to wane.</p>

<p>SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?</p> <p>For months, rumors have swirled around the Web alleging that Microsoft helped finance a small Utah software company's suit against IBM and two corporations that use Linux software. BusinessWeek has learned that Microsoft ( ) did not put up the money, but did play matchmaker for SCO Group ( ) and BayStar Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund which made a $50 million investment in SCO last October.</p>

update Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group. "Yes, Microsoft did introduce BayStar to SCO," a BayStar representative said RoundupSCO versusthe Linux community Thursday, declining to share further details and repeating the firm's earlier position that Microsoft did not actually invest money in the deal. Word of the Microsoft matchmaking surfaced last week when open-source advocate Eric Raymond published a leaked memo about Microsoft's help in the BayStar investment. SCO Group confirmed the authenticity of the memo but said...

SCO suddenly isn't faring so well in its lawsuit against IBM. The company recently dropped claims that Big Blue had misappropriated its trade-secrets by placing them in Linux. This leaves the SCO argument resting upon two copyright infringement claims. When IBM began building the AIX Unix system, it purchased a license from AT&T, the company that created Unix. AT&T's Unix business was later sold to Novell, which subsequently sold part of that business to SCO. Get Up to Speed on...Open sourceGet the latest headlines andcompany-specific news in ourexpanded GUTS section. SCO subsequently contended that under the terms of the Unix...

Analysis: Microsoft, SCO have a lot more explaining to do Monday March 08, 2004 - [ 03:40 PM GMT ] Topics: Legal , News and Trends By: Chris Preimesberger Whether or not Microsoft is secretly bankrolling the SCO Group for more than $100 million to attack Linux and the general open source community through questionable intellectual property lawsuits, NewsForge has learned that U.S. federal regulators may have begun investigating the relationship between the two companies -- and may also be looking closely at a number of other people and companies connected to them through stock or other business transactions. Although...

Issue: ====== A critical security vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel memory management code inside the mremap(2) system call due to missing function return value check. This bug is completely unrelated to the mremap bug disclosed on 05-01-2004 except concerning the same internal kernel function code.

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 07, @09:56AM from the now-thats-serious-flamebait-1 dept. I confirm writes "The BBC's Bill Thompson summarises the GNU/Linux vs. Microsoft struggle as a " cold war", and in one choice quote says:"It is rather ironic that Microsoft and other closed model companies rather resemble the Stalinist or Maoist model of a command economy with complete centralised control." I'm not sure I accept Thompson's conclusions, however: "So now would be a good time to start thinking about how we persuade governments that market in software may eventually need to be regulated, just as the market in electricity,...

05 March 2004 Two of four SCO licensees deny their purchase Linux licence? What Linux licence? By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service and Kieren McCarthy, Techworld Click here for more information Two of the four companies that SCO has publicly named as having bought a licence from it to use Linux, have denied doing anything of the sort. Both Computer Associates and Leggett & Platt have been held up by SCO as purchasing a $699 (£384) licence to cover the alleged SCO copyrights in the open-source operating system. But both have publicly stated that they have done no such thing....

update The SCO Group dismissed a leaked memo that connected Microsoft to $86 million in investments in the company, saying the author of the e-mail misunderstood the venture deal.The SCO Group on Thursday acknowledged the authenticity of an e-mail sent Oct. 12 from Michael Anderer, CEO of Salt Lake City venture firm S2 Partners, to SCO Vice President Chris Sontag and Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench. The memo appears to be a discussion of the compensation that Anderer received for facilitating venture deals on SCO's behalf. "Microsoft will have brought in $86 million for us including BayStar," stated the e-mail,...

Halloween X: Follow The Money 3 Mar 2004 Excuse me, did we say in Halloween IX that Microsoft's under-the-table payoff to SCO for attacking Linux was just eleven million dollars? Turns out we were off by an order of magnitude ? it was much, much more than that. The document below was emailed to me by an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO. He tells me the typos and syntax bobbles were in the original. I cannot certify its authenticity, but I presume that IBM's, Red Hat's, Novell's, AutoZone's, and Daimler-Chryler's lawyers can subpoena the original. Explanatory comments are interspersed in [...].....

Document shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofALast modified: March 4, 2004, 12:25 PM PST By Stephen Shankland and Scott Ard Staff Writer, CNET News.com exclusive The SCO Group filed lawsuits this week against DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone, but the Unix seller's attorneys also had prepared a complaint against Bank of America, according to a document. A Microsoft Word document of SCO's suit against DaimlerChrysler, seen by CNET News.com, originally identified Bank of America as the defendant instead of the automaker. This revision and others in the document can be seen through powerful but often forgotten features in Microsoft Word known as...

Client Server NEWS & LinuxGram 537.1 NewsFlash Competitive Intelligence about Servers, Storage & Related Phenomena IBM CEO Ordered To Turn Over Linux Secrets to SCO By Maureen O'Gara Wednesday, March 3, 2004 - The magistrate judge doing the legal housekeeping in the run-up to the $5 billion SCO v. IBM trial next year gave the SCO Group what it wanted today and ordered IBM to cough up the discovery that SCO claims is vital to its charge that IBM copied Unix code into Linux. IBM has been told to turn over the releases of AIX and Dynix that SCO's lawyers...

Link to ArticleI just downloaded Knoppix Linux, burned it to a CD and am writting this after my second boot. The main feature is, The entire system runs from a CD! No need to install anything to a harddrive. Probally will run with out any harddrives hooked up to the computer. It recognized all my hardware, usb, soundcards, video, etc, right away. (however I couldn't get on the net the first boot?) The CD is loaded with Apps. It plays my MP3s, has an MS Office like application, several Web Browsers and many other Apps, I've yet to explore. It...

It's Autozone Wednesday, March 03 2004 @ 07:53 AM EST It's AutoZone. They are asking for "injunctive relief against AutoZone's further use or copying of any part of SCO's copyrighted materials and also requests damages as a result of AutoZone's infringement in an amount to be proven at trial." The case was filed in Nevada. The paid Pacer site for Nevada federal court is here but I checked and nothing is up there yet. It usually takes a day or two to make it into Pacer. Note the page says Internet Explorer is required, but it isn't. You might remember...

SCO to sue Linux user Tuesday Last modified: March 1, 2004, 4:35 PM PST By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com SAN FRANCISCO--The SCO Group plans to expand its Linux legal attack on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against a large company using the open-source operating system. SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name. SCO, which owns a disputed amount of Unix intellectual property and claims some of the code was improperly used in Linux, threatened in November...