] Picking on SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) is really too easy.
] Unfortunately, it's also necessary, if only as an ongoing
] cautionary tale for Foolish investors. This is a business
] with decent possibilities in the form of its high-margin
] UNIX business. But bad leadership insists on sticking to
] a monstrous, bungling, money-burning plan to litigate its
] way to bigger riches.

SCO's 3Q numbers are out and they're continuing to bleed.

SCO Slides Again

] "This is the first real carrier-grade open-source
] software implementation in the heart of the call path,"
] King said. "Motorola and others have traditionally used
] their own homegrown software, and it was so expensive it
] could only be targeted at top-tier carriers.

Motorola's building Linux-based cell-tower gear.

Motorola and HP in Linux tie-up

]
] Here is IBM's Redacted Memorandum in Support of Motion
] for Partial Summary Judgment On Breach of Contract
] Claims, filed by IBM on Friday. As you will see, they are
] going for the jugular now. Astoundingly, they say that
] all parties involved in the contract between AT&T and IBM
] have now provided testimony in discovery that IBM has the
] right to do whatever it wishes with its own code,
] contrary to SCO's claims, or as the memorandum puts it,
] they all provided "unequivocal testimony that the
] agreements were not intended and should not be understood
] to preclude IBM's use and disclosure of homegrown code
] and contemporaneous documents reflect this interpretation
] of the licenses".

U: SCOX closed down 0.08 (1.98%) at $3.97 today.

IBM Goes for the Jugular vs SCO -- GROKLAW

]
] Sun Microsystems Inc.'s plans for bringing its Solaris
] operating system to IBM's Power architecture appear to be
] moving along.

I think this is just sun making noise again ... because
this is completely fucking insane!

Sun on Track with Solaris-on-Power Plan

] You have to give credit to Sun Microsystems' President
] Jonathan Schwartz. He knows how to play the media well.
] And one of his finest press goading moments since
] becoming Prez has come in the form of a non-story about
] Sun potentially acquiring Novell.

The Register on Sun's ridiculous Novell foo

]
] I have it figured out, I think. Sun's Jonathan Schwartz
] is jealous of Darl McBride. *He* yearns to be the most
] hated man in tech. But no matter how many awful things he
] says, he's still just the runner up. Actually, no one
] bothers to hate either of them, but it'd be easy, if we
] weren't so nice here on the good guy side.

Some good stuff on software patents here, too.

Sun making noise about buying Novell?!

]
] The HP leaked memo about MS planning on attacking Linux
] with its patent portfolio is the subject flooding my
] inbox. What else is new? This is a surprise to whom?
] Anyway, memos like this don't leak. They *get* leaked on
] purpose. So, are we shaking in our boots? No. And here is
] why.

According to a memo leaked from HP, M$ is apparently planning a
big patent attack on Linux.

Groklaw: Keeping an Eye on Microsoft

]
] Clear Channel Radio plans to announce today that it will
] begin limiting the number of commercials its more than
] 1,200 stations can play, in a move that analysts say may
] ripple through the industry even before it takes effect
] on Jan. 1.

Advertising: A Radio Giant Moves to Limit Commercials

] Linux is in and an aging version of Microsoft's
] enterprise Windows operating system is out after the
] French Ministry of Equipment decided to replace 1,500
] Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers.

Mandrake Replaces NT in France

]
] Canadian broadband wireless technology provider Wi-LAN is
] suing industry giant Cisco Systems for patent
] infringement, Wi-LAN officials announced Thursday. And if
] the lawsuit goes well, the company may keep on suing.
]
] All of the patents in question relate to OFDM (orthogonal
] frequency division multiplexing), the modulation
] technique that enables high-speed data transfers for both
] the 802.11g and 802.11a IEEE WLAN (wireless LAN)
] standards.

Is Wi-LAN looking to be the rambus of 802.11?

Wi-LAN Sues Cisco over Data-Transfer Patents