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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...

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...

<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...