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SCO v. IBM resource site
Karsten Self has put together a wiki-based
page on the SCO/IBM mess. Therein you'll find lots of useful
information, including teleconference transcripts, lots of links, and a
timeline for the whole affair.
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SCO v. IBM resource site Posted Jun 2, 2003 17:56 UTC (Mon) by penguinista (guest, #308) [Link] CNET succumbs to the FUD or were allways part of it --As reported here: http://www.sys-con.com/linux/articlenews.cfm?id=779 CNET is quietly getting out of the linux download business. (I first discovered this link at the Netraverse.com web site) I am wondering if this is simply more fallout from the Source Challenged Obfuscators or part of a bigger assault on Linux. At any rate CNET was never a big player in the linux download business in my opinion so they are safe to continue to be irrelevant. --
SCO v. IBM resource site Posted Jun 2, 2003 21:42 UTC (Mon) by erat (guest, #21) [Link] Actually, I heard that download.com is/was one of the more popular download sites for Linux stuff. My guess is they don't want to bother risking litigation by distributing something that SCO may say is not legally distributable. I doubt there's a CNET anti-Linux conspiracy here (if download.com is as popular as I've been told, why would CNET want to hurt its advertising income by intentionally killing off such a huge source of web traffic?).
SCO v. IBM resource site Posted Jun 3, 2003 5:39 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] My guess is they don't want to bother risking litigation by distributing something that SCO may say is not legally distributable.The article suggested that as the cause but didn't give any reason to connect the two things. I think it's unlikely that Cnet is doing this because of SCO. Besides linux news sites, most people are not making a big deal about the SCO antics. People sometimes list the companies I work for as people who should be enraged, but it hasn't affected business at all and I think I'm the only person following the story closely. There are a lot of possible reasons to shut down the linux section of download.com. You could get better stuff from freshrpms.net. Freshmeat.net is far more popular than download.com. Linux programmers are more likely to have their own servers and host their own programs than windows or mac programmers are. Sourceforge.net has more features than download.com. The downloads are never going to work across distros and versions. (It would be interesting to compare the ratings for Linux programs on download.com to windows or mac programs.) Of course, it doesn't make sense for them to put all that in their anouncement... I think Corel Linux ISO's used to be hosted on download.com. I remember searching download.com for themes and wall papers when I first started using Linux. Other than that, I don't know anyone who uses it for Linux programs. You could probably email one of the cnet admins if you wanted to get an honest answer. I had a good email conversation with them a couple years ago.
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