The invaluable Groklaw has this article about SCO's suit against Daimler Chrysler which points to this article by Robert McMillan on ComputerWorld which points out how SCO has totally fucked themselves with this suit.
SCO's legal team is seeming more and more to lawyering what Michael Jackson is to daycare.
I suspect when Boies came aboard on this fiaSCO, he advised them that their chances were 50-50 at best, and that the key to sucess would be to remain focused on the contractual dispute with IBM. After all, that is where the money is. I feel certain that all the sideshow issues, with Daimler Chrysler, Autozone, and the 1500 letters were done against his advice. And the main attorney handling these seems to be Kevin McBride, not Boies, which would explain a lot of the dumbfuckedness of these cases.
The objections raised by Baystar point to this very conclusion. They have not asked for replacement of the legal team, they have asked for replacement of the top management, who can't remain focused on the target.
But, big lovable fuckwits that they are, SCO's management are continuing merrily down the road to total ruin. Here's a big bon voyage to them. Hope a federal penitentiary is at the end of their journey.
Daimler-Chrysler requests dismissal of SCO's suit, with predjudice.
Heh. SCO is about to find out what "Yeah, it's a Hemi!" can mean.
Janeane Garafalo is going on and on on the Tonight Show about liberalism. One gem: she says this country was founded on the "principles of enlightened liberalism". That is, of course, true. However, it was what is now known as classical liberalism. Modern liberalism is actually statism, and classical liberals would be appalled at what liberalism means today.
This shows that Garafalo either has no clue what classical liberalism is, or knows perfectly well and is just speading the Big Lie.
Personally, I think she's clueless.
The vultures are beginning to circle.
Looks like the current top management at SCO are, in the corporate sense, dead men.
SCO (meaning Darl McBride) has destroyed its UNIX business by suing its own customers and partners. The only thing it has left is the IP litigation business, and that is looking very shaky.
Here's to Red Hat and Novell.
New Spanish P.M. orders troops out of Iraq
Spain continues it's transition to the Pussy Nation of Europe, replacing France. Way to show the terrorists who means business, you cowards. I guess Franco must have eliminated all the Spaniards with cojones, eh?
Fucking wimps.
Hamas leader, 2 others killed in Israeli attack
The IAF is getting better at this.
"The mission of the U.S. forces is to kill or capture Moqtada al-Sadr," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, said in a video conference from Baghdad with reporters at the Pentagon.
Daisycutter the bastard.
Music Sales Continue To Fall
"Record company executives blame the decline on illegal music downloads and a consumer spending shift from CDs to video games and DVDs. In the last four years, global music sales have fallen about 20 percent overall. "
Music sales are up
"Online music file-sharing and other forms of piracy haven't gone away, but a gradual turnaround in U.S. music sales that began in the fall has picked up in the first quarter of this year, resulting in the industry's best domestic sales in years.
Overall U.S. music sales – CDs, legal downloads, DVDs, etc. – were up in the first three months of the year by 9.1 percent over the same period in 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan."
I guess it depends on which message you want to get out.
Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software, Inc. said "the proliferation of the Linux open source operating system through a growing number of U.S. defense systems poses a serious and urgent security threat" in a speech to the Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in McLean, VA.
This seems to have the distinct flavor of sour grapes about it, given that the company involved is a producer of real-time embedded software systems, and is feeling some heat from competition with embedded Linux.
In what is becoming a traditional American business response to competition, the first thing you do is spread FUD all over the landscape. Then you go back and spread more FUD.
The absence of backdoors in Linux is directly attributable to its open-source origins, as this proprietary closed source fudmeister fails to see.
Update: Groklaw has some responses to this nonsense.
O'Dowd cites the presence of a hard-coded back door in Unix to support his position. Hmm, Unix, is that an open-source system? No, I didn't think so. So, what's your point here, O'Dowd? Open source is a risk because a closed source OS had a back door coded into it? Nobody noticed the back door because they weren't able to see the code.
One of closed-source's main "security" reliances is the closed, secret source itself. Microsoft has admitted as much in the past, and has demanded that exploits be kept secret when discovered (by ethical organizations, that is). The problem has been that these organizations have found that when they keep the exploit to themselves, Microsoft takes a very leisurely approach to fixing it. But when the security hole and it's exploit become public, Microsoft will move expeditiously to fix it.
Rob Enderle thinks that SCO would win at trial against IBM.
This is very good news. Enderle is such a flaming moron whose predictions on the IT industry are running close to perfect (100% wrong) that if he says SCO should win that means IBM is going to tear down their houses and salt the fields.
Too bad they can't get rid of Rob Enderle while they're taking out SCO. Enderle is a Microsoft tool whose hatred of Linux and open source is legendary. He writes anti-open source screeds under the cover of "objective" analysis. Anal-itis is more like it.
Sun Microsystems has committed suicide.
It will be a long slow suicide, to be sure. And two billion dollars should buy a nice casket.
But companies that sign deals with Microsoft don't live very long afterwards.
So, goodbye, Sun. I would say it was nice to have known you, but given your public stance about Linux lately, I'd rather say fuck off and die. You deserve what you're about to get.