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Judge Kimball comes through. He has granted IBM their 45-day extension, and he also says they don't have to turn over the materials that are the subject of their Motion for Reconsideration until the court rules on that motion, which is exactly what IBM asked for. They submitted this proposed order. IBM filed its Motion for 45-Day Extension of Time to Comply with 1/18/05 Order on March 9, and SCO filed an Memorandum in Opposition to IBM's Motion for 45-Day Extension of Time to Comply with 1/18/05 Order on March 15, 2005. This order is dated March 16. I take...

Before you start reading, fire up the printer, and get the scissors. You may want to clip this one out and give it to your friends and colleagues who are still in Windows land. There are times in life when you actually hear words coming out of your mouth and even as they're coming out, you realize how stupid they sound. I realize that in my own personal and professional life, this sort of thing happens a bit more than the statistical average, but this morning I uttered words that sounded so completely insane, I had to share them. After...

   http://www.news.com/ Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during a discussion on kernel size reduction that his main desktop machine no longer featured an x86 processor. Hence, Torvalds said, a patch specific to the x86 platform that he was submitting to the list for consideration was totally untested. ZDNet Australia was intrigued by this remark and sought to question Torvalds on why the man who helped revolutionize the use of Unix on the x86 platform would move away from it, and where he had moved to....

Senior OSDL executive tells vnunet.com of systematic campaign of disinformation Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 08 Mar 2005 ADVERTISEMENT So-called "enemies of Linux" are conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation which aims to undermine the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system, a senior executive from the Open Source Development Labs has told vnunet.com.Nelson Pratt, marketing director of the pro-Linux organisation, which boasts Linus Torvalds among its top brass, said that unnamed vendors are trying to scare firms with a campaign claiming that Linux is inadequately supported for enterprise use.However, Pratt argues that these charges simply do not hold up. "There...

An IT law expert predicts the threat of litigation over patent violations will seriously hamper Linux development in Europe if the CIID is passed. The European Commission's decision on Monday to reject demands to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive could seriously damage open source software development in Europe, according to a legal expert. ---------snip------------ According to Malcolm, who admits to being against software patents, said there is 'no question' that Linux already violates a number of patents, which could lead to further litigation.

-----snip------- "Linus is a good developer, but is a terrible engineer," said Cox. "I'm sure he would agree with that." -----snip------- Cox said that Torvalds does not always let people know when he has fixed a security bug in the kernel. This can be a problem as the patch will take a while to make it to production, which means that hackers can exploit the vulnerability before it is made available to individuals and enterprises running Linux. "Linus has this bad habit of fixing security holes quietly," said Cox. "This is a bad idea as some people read all the...

The Denver Post How secure is your computer? “Honey pot” experiment shows unprotected Windows SP 1 at risk By Ross Wehner Denver Post Staff Writer Monday, February 28, 2005 - A Windows computer without the latest security patches is in big trouble. That's the conclusion from a "honey pot" experiment conducted by StillSecure, a Louisville network security firm. StillSecure attached six computers - loaded with different versions of the Windows, Linux and Apple's Macintosh operating systems - earlier this month to the Internet without anti-virus software. The results show the Internet is a very rough place. Over the course of...

Is it me, or has there been a recent wave of headlines from Redmond that add up to a Microsoft clamp-down of the sort that could easily drive people away from destkop Windows? The most recent of these, which not surprisingly has drawn a very vocal reaction from some ZDNet readers, is a news story about how the grace period that allowed Microsoft customers to disable the automatic installation of the security update-laden Windows Service Pack 2 is coming to a non-negotiable end. (So says a page on Microsoft's Web site.) Says News.com's Ina Fried in the story, "Microsoft is...

Linux got a leg up from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and the China Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which announced this morning plans to jointly establish a lab based in Beijing to develop complete evaluation systems for the open operating system (OS) and PowerPC core. Advertisement Freescale is not a stranger to China. The company has similar labs established there on the automotive and wireless sides. This time around, they take aim at China's growing embedded space. "We obviously feel that PowerPC, given its architecture and scalability from low performance to high performance, is an opportunity for us to participate in...

When I joined OSNews in 2001, I did it with a great excitment because of my love for... messing around with many operating systems in order to explore news ways of doing things. Back in the '80s and the '90s there were a lot of OS projects that would draw the attention of the computer users of the time. But in this decade, it seems that other than Windows, OSX, Linux and a very few other much smaller OSes, the scene is sterile. And it's only getting worse. Personally, I just can't stand anymore the endless debates between the Linux,...

The U.S. government is close to completing its investigation into Lenovo Group Ltd.'s $1.7 billion acquisition of IBM Corp.'s computer division, sources close to the matter said. The companies are negotiating with federal regulators to foreclose any national security concerns over their deal, which could be approved as early as this week, a source said. Under its deadline to review the deal, the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, a multiagency panel that reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign companies, must decide by mid-March whether to approve the transaction. Sources close to Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and Beijing-based...

IBM is backing up its ardent advocacy of Linux with cold hard cash. Over the next three years, Big Blue will invest a total of $100 million USD to broaden the use of Linux technologies within its Workplace product family and assist customers in constructing end-to-end Linux-based solutions that fit a variety of devices.

NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Software company SCO Group Inc. (SCOX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it may be delisted from the Nasdaq SmallCap market as a result of its failure to file its year-end earnings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a timely fashion. The company said it would request a hearing with Nasdaq to delay the delisting. As of Friday's opening, Nasdaq will add an "E" to the company's ticker symbol. The company said it has not filed its annual 10-K report with the SEC because it is examining matters related to stock issued...

SAN FRANCISCO — Believe it or not, a Windows Web server is more secure than a similarly set-up Linux server, according to a study presented yesterday by two Florida researchers. The researchers, appearing at the RSA Conference of computer-security professionals, discussed the findings in an event, "Security Showdown: Windows vs. Linux." One of them, a Linux fan, runs an open-source server at home; the other is a Microsoft enthusiast. They wanted to cut through the near-religious arguments about which system is better from a security standpoint. "I actually was wrong. The results are very surprising, and there are going to...

As some of you may know, Microsoft is planning to totally restrict access to the Microsoft download center to all non-genuine windows users. So you would expect some check for pirated copies of windows to be involved. If you visit the download center with IE you get an activex control, but if you try with Firefox, you'll have to download a little program, that returns a code you have to copy into the download page, to get access to the download you selected. By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry key, this key is......

Comment There are rare occasions in IT when a particular architecture reaches a point where it stops being purely IT driven and takes on a life of its own. The last year has seen the open source movement reach such a cult status; and at the vanguard of open source fashion can be found the Linux operating system. While the platform appeals at several levels for potential users, some of a philosophical nature and others far more concrete, it is noticeable that a couple of its qualities have recently been called into question.Microsoft, a supplier of operating systems with which...

IBM plans to launch on Tuesday a program to make Linux applications available across its entire hardware line. Called the IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux and code-named Chiphopper, the package includes tools aimed at programmers as well as support and marketing resources from IBM. Linux distributors and IBM partners Red Hat and Novell were involved in the development of the tools and endorsed the project. By participating in the program, independent software vendors will have an easier time moving, or "porting," applications from x86 processor-based servers to servers that run on IBM's Power chips and to IBM mainframes....

Microsoft's top security honcho insisted Thursday that Microsoft "is making progress on security using any reasonable metric." Mike Nash, the company's chief security executive, made the comment during an online chat session just days after Microsoft rolled out its biggest bunch of Windows patches since April 2004. Nash staunchly defended the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's progress, and compared Windows' flaws with those in open-source Linux operating systems from Red Hat and Novell's SuSE. "Even with the relatively large number of bulletins we released this week, we compare favorably," he said. "Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server...

Here at last is Kimball's ruling on the parties motions involving the contract claims and the kitchen sink motion SCO threw on top. SCO's Motion to Dismiss or Stay Count 10 of IBM's 2nd Amended Counterclaims is denied. Period. Their 56(f) Motion is moot. But IBM did better. Here's the list of motions that were denied without prejudice, meaning they can renew or refile when discovery is complete, which I am sure they will: Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Claim for Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on SCO's Breach of Contract Claims Motion for Partial...

Experts: International domain names may pose threat The new trick is a variation of the 'homograph attack' The new trick is a variation of a known technique called the "homograph attack" and takes advantage of loopholes in the way some popular Web browsers display domain names that use non-English characters. It could allow malicious hackers and online identity-theft groups to trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive personal information, according to an advisory from The Shmoo Group, a hacker collective, and from Secunia. snip For example, attackers could register a Web domain "bloomberg.com," which looks identical to the popular business news...