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Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Weekly)
The Salt Lake Weekly has published
a
lengthy and relatively high-clue summary of the SCO case.
"In other words, regardless of whether other companies indemnify
their customers against lawsuits, SCO sees itself as having the upper
hand. Can SCO have it both ways?"
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The real reason... Posted Jan 22, 2004 1:34 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] SCO and McBride were the perfect fit, it seems. Both made their names suing deep-pocketed companies. In 1997, McBride settled a lawsuit with his then employer, IKON Office Solutions, for a reported $3 million in a dispute over McBride’s compensation package. And that is the real reason why Darl sued IBM. He thinks he can get away with it. Seems IBM thinks otherwise...
Best...Comment...Ever... Posted Jan 22, 2004 2:03 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] When asked if he had any questions to pass along to McBride, Linus Torvalds chose to err on the side of caution. “The less I have to do with Darl McBride, the better off I am ... I don’t want for that ‘Darlness’ to rub off on me.”
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 2:14 UTC (Thu) by evandudley (guest, #18879) [Link] This is in the Salt lake City Weekly, _NOT_ the Salt Lake Tribune.But, here is an article in todays (1/21/04) Tribune about SCO.
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 2:26 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Oops...At least I got the city right. Fixed now, thanks.
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 16:10 UTC (Thu) by freethinker (guest, #4397) [Link] Use HTML, eh? One more minute of work for the writer, several seconds saved for thousands of readers.
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 16:21 UTC (Thu) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] If my email client can automatically link HTTP addresses, why can't my browser? This should be a feature.
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 16:30 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Probably some dufus would figure out a way to be malicious with it....
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 17:32 UTC (Thu) by jhardin (guest, #3297) [Link] H*ll no! Software (specifically mail clients and web clients) is making way too many bad decisions automatically as it is. We don't need to try and expand the range of things they are making bad guesses at...
Text URLs as clickable links? Posted Jan 23, 2004 15:58 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] The browser DOES link those things, just not quite.. fully automatically..Running KDE here.. Select the text of the url with the left mouse button, release the button, and up pops the Klipper clipboard options that I've programmed for URLs.. Select an appropriate browser from the list, and it pops up and loads the page. No sweat.. @ the console,with gpm running for mouse support, it's slightly more work, as I have to select the url in links or lynx, the console/text based browsers, switch to a free console (or open another one), and type links (or lynx), and hit the middle mouse button to paste, then hit return. Still pretty short and sweet, especially since those using the console shouldn't be adverse to typing a single command in it. In general X without KDE and clipper, it should still be pretty easy. Either hit the window manager hotkey you've selected to start your favorite browser, and middle-click to paste into the address bar, or pop-up a launch dialog and type it in, space, and middle-click-paste the address in, then hit return to launch, as you would if using the console. IOW, I don't let little things like the lack of a true link, just the url text, bother me. I use the technology to work around it. =:^) As others point out, not having the browser attempt to do such itself, when it wasn't specified that way in the page HTML, can be considered a GOOD thing. Duncan
Linux Code Red (Salt Lake Tribune) Posted Jan 22, 2004 17:26 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] "That code, which SCO argues has illegally appeared in recent versions of the freely distributed Unix OS offshoot, Linux, is at the heart of its $50 billion lawsuit against IBM " ! Have they changed the compensation value again ?... ( not paying attention latelly)
Linux without Linux? Posted Jan 22, 2004 16:58 UTC (Thu) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link] "...the Linux kernel—the core chunk of code underlying most distributions of the Linux operating system."I, for one, would like to know which Linux distributions don't use the Linux kernel.. That's one very nice trick..
Linux without Linux? Posted Jan 23, 2004 14:23 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216) [Link] Debian/Hurd takes Debian and replaces only one component: the Linux kernel. You can, of course, legitimately argue that it's no longer a Linux distribution! It's worth noting that many ordinary users wouldn't notice the difference.
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