Tonight Live: The “Dark Side” & Oh Please Mr. Sontag (SCO) on The Linux Show

[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this link. ]

Tonight Live: The “Dark Side” & Oh Please Mr. Sontag
(SCO)>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne
Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back
live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight with an
interesting twist.

Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week and the expo. Tonight on
the news: SCO cluelessness, lots on Microsoft, Consumer Electornics
news, and several views from outside the community.

Story Links

• The News This Weeks
  • 
    Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection– ZDNET
  • Did
    Linux lose a marketing opportunity?– CNN.com
  • 
    Linux Set to Break Through in Consumer Electronics–
    Reuters
  • IBM steals
    server sales from Sun– By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com
  • Linux community
    told to ‘get real’– by Bill Thompson BBC News
  • 
    SCO: fee due even if you replace our code– by Karl Cushing
    ComputerWeekly
  • DVD-copying code loses
    free speech shield– By John Borland CNET News.com
  • Small
    Webcasters sue RIAA– By John Borland CNET News.com
• Old SCO
  • Halloween IX:
    It Ain’t Necessarily SCO–
  • An
    Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
  • ‘SCO’ code could
    be written out of Linux–
  • 
    Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO’s Linux Claims –
  • CALDERA
    Employess work on Kernel– Jeff:I told you so
  • Torvalds
    Speaks Out on SCO, Linux– from e-week
  • 
    SCO Owns Your Computer– Byte (how appropriate)
  • OSI Position
    Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint–
  • Eric Raymond’s
    attempt to find holes in SCO’s claim–
  • 
    SCO’s CEO says buyout could end Linux fight– by TODD R. WEISS
    of Computer World This may be the defining story of the
    entire SCO situation
  • SCO v.
    IBM satire. A Defining Moment– by Ed Foster
  • Warning:
    You may want to consider speaking a new language
• The SCO/Microsoft Connection
  • 
    The Linux and Main Summary– has to be good, quoted
    jeff…..
  • 
    Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft– By Dennis
    Powell
  • “SCO
    ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT” – the official
    press release
  • If it Look like
    a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY
    DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!!
  • OK, So Why
    Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?– by Maureen O’Gara of
    LinuxGram

Segment Two- “Freedom’s Dark Side- The iron fist, the
invisible hand, and the battle for the soul of open
source.– A view from outside the community.

Tonight we will have a conversation with Bruce
Sterling , noted author and journalist to discuss his
recent article at Wired Freedom’s
Dark Side; and will discuss the view of the oepn
source community from the outside looking in.

Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, editor, and critic; was
born in 1954. He has written eight science fiction novels and three
short story collections. He edited the anthology MIRRORSHADES, the
definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the
nonfiction books THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992) and TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT
FIFTY YEARS (2003). He is a contributing editor of WIRED
magazine.

He also writes a weblog and runs a website and Internet mailing
list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial
design. He has appeared in ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show,
CBC’s Morningside, on MTV, and in the Wall Street Journal, Time,
Newsweek, Fortune, Nature, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel.

He lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.

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