] Controversial software seller The SCO Group fired back
] against Linux leader Red Hat on Monday, filing a motion
] to dismiss the Linux company's suit against SCO.

grand.

] In a motion filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in
] Delaware, SCO argued that Red Hat has no grounds to sue
] SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux
] operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.

am i smoking crack? does this make sense to anyone else? is it not "specifically targetting" a company to send threatening letters to their customers? They weren't exclusively targeted, but they certainly were on the list. Also, how do they justify their position in the context of :

"There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done." -Darl McBride (from http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=41480)

i also especially like the invocation of first amendment rights. Gimme a break.

SCO swings back at Red Hat | CNET News.com

pretty car...

all that work because bill gates was pissed about not being able to drive his. pauvre bebe.

AutoWeek - Cover Story

I just found this today and found it funny...

2003 puts dell only a few years behind apple.

Dell - Dell White Paper: Migrating from the Legacy Diskette Drive: Ford Motor Company Case Study

inignoct wrote:
]] this guy makes some interesting points, but i think his final
]] conclusion is wrong. There are still a lot of IM services out
]] there, with varying numbers of users. What happened is not
]] that all but one died out, but that developers built clients
]] that talk to all the networks, and users registered accounts
]] with 2 or 3 or more different IM systems. I could see a
]] similar thing happening with file sharing systems... they'll
]] become neighborhoods, more or less suited to particular types
]] and classes of information, and clients will be built that
]] transparently handle all of them at once.
]
]The thing is that a centralized search system is a lot more ]efficient and finding the file that you want then these p2p ]networks. (This is essentially why I think MemeStreams is better ]then a network of distributed bloggers using reputation enabled RSS ]aggregators. The data is simply more reliable, easier to access, ]and easier to index, when it is all stored in a central location.)

why can't there be a few different central-server based networks? There are different ways of doing the same thing, and optimizations that could be made for particular classes of information.

i'm not necessarily saying he's wrong. i was just proposing an alternate possibility that i consider at least equally likely at this stage.

of course, the whole thing hinges on the adoption of compulsory licencing, which is a whole bag of uncertainty and technical trouble.

RE: LawMeme - Compulsory Licensing - The Death of Gnutella and the Triumph of Google

The recall is halted (for now) due to concerns over voting machine error.

Yahoo! News - Appeals Court Delays Calif. Recall Vote

] Apologists for Bush's little war in Iraq, whose numbers
] are diminishing in the face of relentless reality, have
] invested a mighty labor in dismissing two claims; that
] the war in Iraq is about oil, and that there is a
] comparison to be made between the Iraq War and the
] Vietnam War.

mr. goff makes some statements that seem a bit excessive or parnoid, but the main line of his argument is pretty cogent and presents a reasonable view of the situation. Of especial note are his credentials as a former Special Forces Master Sergeant.

Stan Goff: It Was the Oil and It Is Like Vietnam

] Back in July, a number of filesharing companies formed a trade
] association to push for, among other things, compulsory
] licensing [...]. I wonder how much they have really thought this
] through. After all, a compulsory license that legimitized
] filesharing would quickly put most of these companies out of
] business.

this guy makes some interesting points, but i think his final conclusion is wrong. There are still a lot of IM services out there, with varying numbers of users. What happened is not that all but one died out, but that developers built clients that talk to all the networks, and users registered accounts with 2 or 3 or more different IM systems. I could see a similar thing happening with file sharing systems... they'll become neighborhoods, more or less suited to particular types and classes of information, and clients will be built that transparently handle all of them at once.

LawMeme - Compulsory Licensing - The Death of Gnutella and the Triumph of Google

] RATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3
] player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database
] of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings
] and other peoples to guess what you'll like. The tracks
] are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal
] downloads of their music.

I give them a couple more weeks before they get smacked with a lawsuit.

iRATE radio home

] Dyson said a single solar cell will cost about 25 cents.
] The cells are situated about a square foot apart and will
] have a "way more than 50 percent" energy-conversion rate,
] she added.

more neat solar power applications on the way...

Wired News: Through the Solar Looking Glass

Another article about micropayments from MIT (kinda refutes the Shirky article from a few days ago).

I actually have a BitPass account and have used it on a couple of occasions. I really don't think it's a problem. In the situation to which Shirky was responding, where every page view costs a penny or a fraction of a penny, i can completely see his argument.

But in my experience, it's a trivial thing... theres a link that says, "buy the full size version of this digital photo for a dime" or "buy access to this comic strip for 25 cents", and if you think it's worth it, you click thru, with only a one page interference to actually make the transaction. If you think the comic isn't worth a quarter, then don't pay. I disagree with the mental transaction cost argument anymore -- the system is pretty clean and simple.

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