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News Linux News for Jun 12, 2004:
eWeek: SCO Trying to Hold Industry for Ransom
(2004-06-12 00:00:58) "If SCO were to win its IBM case by some miracle, it would likely demand tribute from the Linux community at a level that could make the platform go away..."
CNET News: User Exchanges: It's Good to Share
(2004-06-12 01:30:17) "'Zeke' was generally happy with the professional Web authoring application he used, but he didn't like the way some of the buttons looked when he added 'click here' links on a page..."
NewsForge: Does Prentice Hall Really Own Linux?
(2004-06-12 03:00:57) "The [AdTI] report attributes ownership of Linux to Prentice Hall PTR as publishers of Andrew Tannenbaum's book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation..."
VNUnet: Linux: Simple Yet Effective
(2004-06-12 09:00:26) "As my Sunday-school teacher was keen to say, 'You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad' Of course, had he become an IT manager he would have learned that finding the truth is not always easy..."
ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup — Sun's Open Source Pixie Dust
(2004-06-12 12:00:09) "'Three years ago,' we wrote, 'this would have been like Nixon going to China. Now? [...] It's only a matter of time before the operating system doesn't offer anything users can't find in Linux or a BSD...'"
Community: Canadian Election and FLOSS/Digital Copyright
(2004-06-12 15:00:31) "Rather than reacting, Canadians should be proactive and ensure that their candidates know where they stand on these issues..."
Out-Law.com: Do You Know the Lineage of Your Software Code?
(2004-06-12 18:00:55) "Code copying is rife. More than 75% of software developers will reuse blocks of code that were written elsewhere..."
Fedora Core Advisory: cvs
(2004-06-12 19:28:32) "While investigating a previously fixed vulnerability, Derek Price discovered a flaw relating to malformed 'Entry' lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator..."
eWeek: Novell v. SCO: The Telling Blow?
(2004-06-12 19:30:04) "In an eventful week for SCO... Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols thinks the biggest event by far is that SCO now must face Novell in federal court to battle for Unix's copyright. It's a battle, he thinks, that SCO is likely to lose..."
Linux Business Week: SCO Can't Sell "Linux Licenses" Worth a Damn
(2004-06-12 21:00:07) "SCO's notorious SCOsource licensing program brought in all of $11,000 in the company's second quarter ended April 30, a fact that should warm of the cockles of all the Linux hearts out there that begrudge the company its Unix IP claims..."
NewsForge: A Splintering Linux Community
(2004-06-12 22:30:37) "We now have two distinct classes of Linux users whose interests are not the same, and perhaps we have more than that if we want to talk about people who think of software in political rather than pragmatic terms..."
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