The Economist has a fine article on the growing discord between Microsoft and (especially foreign) governments over the future of software. At issue is not only the cost, but issues of control, proprietary software vs. standards, and reliability. At the crux of the story is the defection of Munich, Germany …

An article from LinuxWorld this week raises the question of whether SCO knows the origin of the code that they claim was misappropriated into the Linux code base. Based on quotes from SCO officials (both in print and at conferences), the author postulates that one of the reasons that SCO …

In response to the Open Letter from SCO's CEO earlier this week, Linux Today has printed a response from Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond. It covers some specific responses to the SCO claims that the Open Source community has been harboring the DDoS attackers and also goes over the intellectual …

SCO, the company that created an outcry earlier this year by stating every copy of Linux was in violation of their copyrights, is targeting SGI for their next action. In an open letter from SCO to the Open Source community which broadly accuses the community of coddling those who launched …

In good news for Linux and OS X aficionados, Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US OMB has added OS X and Linux to the list of supported operating systems for federal use. Previously, only Microsoft's Windows and Sun's Java 2 platforms were supported.

Because of the recent (to me, remember I've been gone for 2 weeks) internet worm, Microsoft has apparently contracted with Akamai to serve their crucial web pages under load conditions. An article from CNet reports the systems as using Linux (although I thought they were running FreeBSD), but either way …

If you use FreeBSD, you are undoubtedly familiar with the ports collection and its thousands of easy-to-install utilities and applications. This article from O'Reilly Press's Onlamp details a number of cool tricks with the system. Among the tips are: How to make a web-browsable set of readmes for the entire …

IBM let loose a fusillade of legal firepower today aimed squarely at blowing away SCO. The computer giant, considered three decades ago to be the most controlling, powerful, and anti- competitive company in the industry (like Microsoft is today) is in the interesting position of being the "defender of the …

Terra Soft Solutions, a systems integrator and the developer of Yellow Dog Linux, has announced that they have won a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide servers for image processing aboard the subs. This sale, which the press release indicates is the largest VAR sale for the Xserve product, shows …

If the folks at Red Hat needed any more proof for their allegations in a Deleware court that SCO is using scare tactics to frighten customers away from their 'wares, they got it today when the company announced their pricing for Linux users. According to an article from CNet, the …

This is total geek fare, but if you need to administer your unix box (or Mac for that matter) from your telephone, here's an SSH client for the Sony Ericsson P800 phone. If that's not sick enough, there's also a VNC client.

A wonderful story from BBspot about an upcoming Fox television show that is currently searching for a name. If you aren't one of the programmers thrown out weekly, you could win the prize of $1M.

While commenting in Computer Reseller News on the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates asserted that he believes there is Microsoft intellectual property inside of not only Linux, but other open source programs as well, and he may be right. The issue at hand here isn't copyrighted code …

For those who use SSL for email, you may find interesting a recent enhancement to server certificates from Thawte, the addition of client capabilities as well as server. By popular demand (and I know I was one of those demanding it), the company has decided to cut a break to …

According to a survey on Netcraft (an internet server analysis site), the number of JSP (Java Server Pages) sites has grown almost 100% over last year, despite Microsoft's heavy push for ASP (Active Server Pages) and .NET development. More interesting is that almost 26% of the sites are running Microsoft …

Although not a big shock, Sun Microsystems, has announced that it is broadening its license agreement with with SCO and is optioning a potential ownership stake in same.Although the article that announced this in CNet called Sun a "previously-secret" licensee, anyone who has been in the industry long enough …

A review from eWeek has now hit the web, and the word on 5.1 is pretty good. 5.1 has some big changes from 5.0, including the support for nearly double the number of processor architectures and a complete revamp of the way the kernel handles SMP (symmetric …

According to an article on CNet, Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, and Toshiba have formed CELF, the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. The group is intended to help steer Linux in a direction compatible with consumer electronics, focussing on issues such as: Extended battery life Real-time responsiveness (for audio …

An article from InfoWorld reports that tests by Reasoning (a software inspection firm) have indicated that recent Apache code (2.x version) has about the same number of bugs per thousand lines of code as commercial equivalents. I'm not entirely sure what this means, but I do find it an …

The latest twist in the SCO UNIX case is an allegation (reported in an article from eWeek and made by a source "close to SCO") that SCO used Linux code in its "Linux Kernel Personality" feature without complying with the GPL, the license under which the software was developed). The …