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Linux, not Microsoft Windows, remains the most-attacked operating system, a British security company reports. During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent. A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers, according to the report. Just 360 — less than 2 per cent — of BSD Unix servers were successfully breached in August. The data comes from the London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit, which has been collecting data on overt...

IBM bundles up with Chinese Linux company By Stephen Shankland IBM has expanded its geographic ambitions for Linux, signing a deal to bundle a version of its database software with a distributor of the open-source operating system in China. Under the deal, Red Flag Linux, will bundle DB2 Express with its software for small and medium-sized businesses, the companies said Wednesday. The agreement comes not long after database leader and IBM rival Oracle said it will certify its software with Red Flag's Linux. "Given the size of China's economy and the related growth of information technology infrastructure, Red Flag could...

Torvalds to SCO: Negotiate what? Linux creator says there is no proof of copyright infringement By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service September 10, 2003 The war of words between The SCO Group Inc. and the Linux community escalated this week in a flurry of open letters, the latest from Linux creator Linus Torvalds. In a letter dated Tuesday, the maintainer of the Linux kernel dismissed an offer from SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride to negotiate the dispute with the open-source community. "There doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP (intellectual...

Sun may offer Java customers SCO relief By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 10, 2003, 10:04 AM PT Can fear of SCO help Java grow? Sun Microsystems thinks it just might. Sun is contemplating adding an unusual provision to some of its Java licenses under which the company would agree to protect licensees from Linux-related lawsuits filed by the SCO Group. SCO earlier this year asserted that some of the code in Linux infringes on the intellectual property underlying Unix, the 20-plus-year-old operating system that has been owned at different times by AT&T, Novell and now SCO. "You...

Response to SCO's Open Letter Sep 10, 2003, 05 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (34161 reads) (Other stories by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens) [ Thanks to Gerry Tool for this link. ] Mr. McBride, in your "Open Letter to the Open Source Community" your offer to negotiate with us comes at the end of a farrago of falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders, and misrepresentations. You must do better than this. We will not attempt to erect a compromise with you on a foundation of dishonesty. Your statement that Eric Raymond was "contacted by the perpetrator" of the DDoS attack on...

Mr. McBride, in your "Open Letter to the Open Source Community" your offer to negotiate with us comes at the end of a farrago of falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders, and misrepresentations. You must do better than this. We will not attempt to erect a compromise with you on a foundation of dishonesty. Your statement that Eric Raymond was "contacted by the perpetrator" of the DDoS attack on SCO begins the falsehoods. Mr. Raymond made very clear when volunteering his information and calling for the attack to cease that he was contacted by a third-party associate of the perpetrator and does...

<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>

  Here is IBM's Subpoena to Canopy Group You can get it as a PDF here, thanks to a resourceful Utah person who went to the court and did all the legwork. Thank you so much, Frank. I'll comment on it as I get a chance to read it. Meanwhile, feast your eyes. UPDATE: The subpoena sets September 10th as the date for a deposition, at Snell & Wilmer's law offices in Salt Lake City, and instructs that these are the documents Canopy Group's representative, whoever they choose to get deposed on behalf of Canopy, must produce on that...

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...

COMMENTARY--Yep, it's Windows vs Linux time again. as usual, the facts go out the window in a points-scoring battle that completely ignores the important issues. At the annual Tech Ed conference in mid-August, Microsoft's chief security strategist Scott Charney said "Half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code". Why would he say that? For about a year, Microsoft has been implementing its Trustworthy Computing initiative, and has gone to great effort to improve its practices and get better security and reliability in its products. Being Microsoft, a lot of the work has gone...

Utility logs start to be revealed Transcripts of telephone conversations between utility operators prior to last month's power blackout in the US and Canada were published Wednesday, so writes Wired. They include explicit mention of some unknown 'computer problems' at FirstEnergy, the Ohio utility thought to have triggered the regional power failures, in those preceding hours. Early on, a controller at the Midwest Independent System Operator asked his counterpart at FirstEnergy why it hadn't reacted to a transmission line outage. The utility's technician replied: "We have no clue. Our computer is giving us fits, too. We don't even know the...

The jury is in. After years of experimentation with Linux in the enterprise, customers, analysts, and vendors are starting to sing a consistent tune about where Linux makes financial sense and where it doesn’t. Although Linux is often thought of as a free alternative to established OSes such as Windows and proprietary Unix is it really cheaper when you add the costs of acquisition, migration, operation, and support? In other words, is the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Linux really lower than that of Unix or Windows? The simple answer is this: The more fully an enterprise adopts Linux...

China's Red Flag Linux to step onto global stage Alliance with HP strengthened as prelude to worldwide expansion of development effort TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An alliance between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Chinese Linux developer Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. established last month should lead to cooperation between the two companies on technology development and marketing of Red Flag Linux to companies in China and around the world. The announcement, made in Beijing on Aug. 20, strengthens a long-standing relationship between the two companies and represents a milestone in Red Flag's plans to expand its business outside the world's most populous country....

By CNETAsia Staff Special to CNET News.com September 3, 2003, 9:02 AM PT Hewlett-Packard and a Chinese company have teamed to develop and market Linux software to companies in China--and later globally. China-based Linux distributor Red Flag Software and Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP announced the alliance Tuesday, according to a statement from HP. The two companies will establish an HP-Red Flag Linux laboratory in HP's existing facilities in Beijing as part of the agreement. A Linux demonstration center will be set up by both companies to provide services for local Linux users and independent distributors. HP will support the Red...

SCO to send out Linux invoices By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 2, 2003, 5:54 PM PT The SCO Group is turning up the heat in its attempt to impose Unix license fees for Linux use: It plans to begin sending invoices to companies before the month is out. The Lindon, Utah-based company announced in August that it wants corporations to buy Unix licenses for using the similar Linux operating system, asking $699 for a single-processor Linux server. But Tuesday, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said the company will begin the more active approach of sending invoices requesting payment...

Japan, China, SKorea to jointly develop Windows replacement Sat Aug 30,10:29 PM ET TOKYO (AFP) - Japan, China and South Korea (news - web sites) plan to develop an original operating system in a bid to challenge the domination of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, news reports said. Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma is to propose the plan when he meets his Chinese and South Korean counterparts in Phnom Penh on Wednesday on the sidelines of the ASEAN trade ministers' meeting, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun said Sunday, quoting sources. The three countries are expected to reach an...

Linux and the GPL a Hard Look at a Leftist Software Development Model. by Coral Snake Also features the complete GNU General Public License by Richard M Stallman (RMS) -- (with commentary by Coral Snake) For the last five years I have been involved with the "Free Software Movement". During my time in this movement I have been an avid user of the Linux OS from kernel 2.0 to kernel 2.4, The GIMP graphics authoring program, Open Office, and the GCC C and C++ compilers with the KDevelop IDE. I have also been a regular visitor to all the "Free...

Japan has visions of Asian alternative to Windows OS http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030901a3.htm Japan hopes to develop new computer software in cooperation with China and South Korea to make Asian economies less dependent on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, government officials said Sunday. The software would be built into computer servers and Internet-enabled appliances, such as next-generation cell phones, the officials said. Computer worms have been attacking Windows recently, prompting government offices and major companies to reconsider their heavy dependence on the operating system. Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma will propose the plan to his Chinese and South Korean counterparts...

Kat and I just received the Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook we ordered from Dell Canada. We quickly ran across problems. I pushed the power button to turn on computer. I got the Dell POST screen, then a screen from Dell (Photo): SOFTWARE LICENSES - Before using your computer, read all of the software license agreements that came with each program that you ordered. There may be several agreements to examine. To comply with the terms and conditions of the software license agreements, you must consider any CD or diskette set of Dell-installed software as BACKUP copies of the software installed...

The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court. The company was responding to questions routed through its PR people in Sydney. As the Canopy Group, which has a stake in SCO, also has interests in several other Linux companies, SCO was asked whether it planned to sue all these companies. The answer was "No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux companies." In June, SCO senior vice-president Chris Sontag was quoted as saying the...