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January 2006 Breaking News

By JCausey, Section General Articles
Posted on Wed Jan 4th, 2006 at 15:10:03 EST

It's that time again. I realize the last Breaking News thread has scrolled off the front page (I have mine set to show 12 stories), so time for a new one. Just post stuff here that doesn't seem to belong anywhere else!

Thanks!
Jeff

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January 2006 Breaking News | 40 comments (40 topical, 0 editorial, 6 hidden)

Wallace v FSF filings (4.66 / 6) (#2)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed Jan 4th, 2006 at 17:22:58 EST
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Well, over on the SCOX Board there was a request this morning for access to some Wallace v. FSF filings that have still not shown up on tuxrocks. I've pulled them down from PACER and they are available here at IPW, though I have not set up any kind of case tracking page. If anyone wants one, just post here and I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, you can get the following:

FSF Motion to Dismiss (docket item #34)

FSF Brief/Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss (docket item #35)

Wallace's Response in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (docket item #36)

Jeff

Yahoo needs more cowbell. (4.66 / 3) (#26)
by ColonelZen (tzellers lieth within pobox of thy kingdom com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 14:17:40 EST
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It's wandered off the internet and gotten lost.

-- TWZ

Re: Yahoo needs more cowbell. by AncientBrit, 05/07/2006 15:37:04 EST (4.00 / 3)
Re: Yahoo needs more cowbell. by AncientBrit, 05/07/2006 15:51:22 EST (4.00 / 2)

Groklaw outmaneuvers the SCOX board. (4.16 / 6) (#16)
by Potential Recruit on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 15:49:27 EST

Hi all. Long time since I posted here, but I swing past from time to time to see how things are going.

I have had a tin-foil hat moment over the recent events at GL/SCOX, please bear with me.

I have noticed, as a long time lurker, that the run up to the current situation has a lot of similarities to the position just prior to the last GL v Yahoos debacle. This is all IIRC, I have done no searches.

Just before John Gabriel was expelled from GL, I had been pleased to note that there seemed to exist a situation in which GL and the SCOX board were vying to get reports and fillings out on the web first. I found this quite exciting, and looked forward to the more or less constant flow of information about the SCO case. I was just starting to think that the SCOX board posters were edging ahead, when PJ dropped her bombshell and the IBM/SCO research effort changed overnight. The camaraderie that had built up, and which even a lurker like myself could feel, was gone, never to return.
There followed a period, as you all know, where anybody wishing to discuss GL or PJ were hounded from pillar to post, and the BGE as they became known, eventually gave up the unequal struggle.
The SCOX board languished for a long time after these events seeming to have had the stuffing knocked out of it.

Over the last few months however, thanks mainly to the efforts of Al Petrofsky, the SCOX board has again been getting the court documents first, up to a week in some cases, and discussing them at length. I have seen posts on GL where people there have been aware that things had happened in the case, but due to PJ's refusal to acknowledge Al's site, were left in the dark. I got the impression that GL found itself in a position where the only current info was SCOX info. and PJ could not take advantage of it in a timely manner.
I think that this state of affairs once again got to her (she made several disparaging remarks about the SCOX board over the last few weeks) and her recent outburst has once again polarized the SCOX board members.

(Tin-foil on) I think that she was perfectly aware of the effect her post would have and she must have chosen both her words (she says she is a writer now) and the moment, with care. Unlike after the first Grokwar, the mood on the SCOX board seems more resigned, and conciliatory, with posters I consider to be GL fans being quite mellow in their positions, even Tim sounded reasonable, he even criticized PJ. NB. The last time I can recall him using a style similar to this it turned out he was lying. joke joke!
In the future I expect to see Anon. posters on GL directly posting info that the SCOX board has unearthed, in a new found "spirit of cooperation", and PJ openly making use of it. Al will become isolated, and I expect he will just fade from the scene, but I hope not.

These are just my opinions and IANAL.

GPL v3 released for comment (4.00 / 4) (#7)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Mon Jan 16th, 2006 at 12:43:14 EST
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Just notified that GPL v3 has been released for discussion. It is available at gplv3.fsf.org and comments may be submitted via gplv3.fsf.org/comments/.

Jeff

Why not break free? (4.00 / 4) (#10)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed Feb 8th, 2006 at 09:05:23 EST
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Ran across this article via one of my mailing lists. A nice take on open source software and its suitability for home use. Covers some of the major F/OSS packages, though it would have been nice at the end to have plugged Linux in addition to the apps. Considering this appears to be from a local paper and not an industry mag, I think it is good news.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2103-2025223,00.html

Jeff

Army to use Linux for FCS (4.00 / 3) (#13)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Tue Feb 21st, 2006 at 15:46:23 EST
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Ran across this article about the Army using Linux on an Intel platform as its common operating environment for the next generation Future Combat System.

http://www.fcw.com/article92360-02-17-06-Web&newsletter%3Dyes

Jeff

Aharonian filed appeal (4.00 / 4) (#15)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Thu Mar 2nd, 2006 at 18:03:10 EST
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Was just going back through some of my links (heh, after being tipped off to a rant by Pamela Jones over at Groklaw.net) and was checking out Aharonian's web page. As you may recall, he had filed a lawsuit trying to get "software copyright" ruled unconstitutional. He would rather have software covered only by patent law (and he's a patent attorney - imagine that).

Anyway, back in the beginning of January his case was dismissed as being without merit. According to his site, he filed an appeal on January 18th. You can see the Notice of Appeal here.

Jeff

Clean slate (4.00 / 2) (#19)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Fri Mar 10th, 2006 at 11:28:12 EST
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Well, I thought about posting this over at Y! SCOX board, but they've actually managed to get back on topic over there with the news about five new subpoenas issued by IBM.

So, I'll ask here and see what might show up.

I think I may have the opportunity to architect the complete IT infrastructure for a startup company. If I get the chance, I hope to start them all off on Linux and other F/OSS apps from the get go. From what I follow, I know one of the biggest challenges with migrations seems to be getting folks off of Exchange server/Outlook. Since I probably won't have to do that, my question is - what would be the best solution to start everyone on?

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeff

Thiet ke web by Potential Recruit, 11/27/2006 06:25:33 EST (1.00 / 2)
Re: Clean slate by AncientBrit, 03/13/2006 08:06:37 EST (none / 1)

Re: Clean slate by JCausey, 03/13/2006 20:25:04 EST (4.00 / 2)

Re: Clean slate by sphealey, 05/07/2006 16:46:33 EST (3.50 / 2)

Re: Clean slate by JCausey, 05/08/2006 08:33:50 EST (none / 1)

Firefox now has 10% of browser market (3.66 / 3) (#3)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Thu Jan 5th, 2006 at 11:49:38 EST
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Noticed the feed from InformationWeek regarding the latest browser figures. Firefox is now a whisker away from 10% of the market. You can see the breakdown for all browsers at NetApplications site. Some very nice news to start 2006!

JCausey

Re: Firefox now has 10% of browser market by JCausey, 01/09/2006 09:11:59 EST (3.66 / 3)

Re: January 2006 Breaking News (3.50 / 4) (#5)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Fri Jan 6th, 2006 at 17:25:04 EST
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I've been spending some time lately learning how to rip DVD's using Linux. As I have learned, ripping them to the hard drive is not too hard. I'm trying to figure out how to get them compressed so they'll fit on a normal DVD now, which has not been easy (or successful thus far). Although I have figured out that my burner should be able to handle dual layer DVD's, so maybe I won't need to compress them. If I want to pay the steep price for the DVD-DL's.

Anyway, I just happened run across a beta of a new product from Nero for a Linux version of their Burning ROM application. I'm doing a little testing right now and it seems to be pretty nice. Not as nice as k3b that I normally use. And it does not appear to be open source by any stretch of the imagination.

So, probably not for me or most of the folks that visit this site. The bigger picture though is the fact that Nero is probably responding to customer demands to port their application over to Linux. I take that as good news!

For more about NeroLINUX, visit their page:

http://www.nero.com/eng/NeroLINUX.html

Jeff

OSRM/Perens (and Mathfox) (3.33 / 3) (#34)
by AncientBrit on Thu Nov 23rd, 2006 at 06:09:33 EST
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BP has left OSRM:-
http://perens.com/

But Mathfox is still there:-
http://www.osriskmanagement.com/about.shtml

Re: OSRM/Perens (and Mathfox) by JCausey, 11/24/2006 21:20:59 EST (4.00 / 3)

Re: OSRM/Perens (and Mathfox) by AncientBrit, 11/27/2006 19:08:32 EST (none / 1)

Re: January 2006 Breaking News (1.00 / 3) (#36)
by mijue on Sat Nov 25th, 2006 at 19:02:19 EST
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Is it just me, or does the only thing the article really say is "Don't use Linux if you have a Windows app you rely on"? They don't provide any numbers that I can tell related to what a "high" migration cost is. Further, right at the end the Gartner spokesperson indicates "it is too early to determine its level of compatibility and fidelity with enterprise Excel applications and complex Word documents." If it is too early to tell, then how does one arrive at a conclusion?

I guess with the Vista delay and the rest of the world moving ahead quickly, it's time to crank up the FUD.

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New Vista pics (none / 2) (#1)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed Jan 4th, 2006 at 15:10:50 EST
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Some new Vista pics are out. I haven't gone through them all to critique yet.

http://desktoppipeline.com/storypics/vistapb2/vista_pict1.jhtml

Jeff

Re: New Vista pics by ColonelZen, 01/05/2006 21:04:12 EST (3.33 / 3)

Proprietary software costs up on patent violation (none / 2) (#8)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Mon Jan 30th, 2006 at 22:59:09 EST
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Despite the ramblings of anti-FOSS folks who consistently try to portray the problem of patents on software and business methods as somehow being of particular concern to FOSS we get news of the latest example of software patents being a burden on end users of proprietary, closed source software. This appears to be in spite of the "indemnity" that comes with the backing of a big company when you use their software.

Patent spat forces businesses to upgrade Office

Yep - Office, as in the Microsoft Office product. If you read the article, you'll see that some analysts are wondering how well MS'es indemnity will hold up, especially for a company that delays in deploying the "fix". As they point out, for extremely large companies, deploying the "fix" is no easy effort or project.

You would think there would be a larger market for an offering similar to OSRM's, but targeted at users of closed source software. It seems there would be much more incentive to invest in that type of protection.

JCausey

Member of Congress interested in patent reform (none / 2) (#9)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed Feb 1st, 2006 at 09:47:27 EST
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Ran across this story showing some interest on the part of a member of Congress in patent reform.

Patent licensing under scrutiny in BlackBerry case

It's too bad it has taken something like the loss of crackberries for this issue to gain traction, but at least some folks are starting to wake up. From the article, I don't think Rep. Davis fully understands the nature of the problem of software and business method patents as he seems to think throwing some more money/resources and a few procedural changes will fix things up. In any case, there may be an opportunity for some education.

Jeff

New Vikings? (none / 1) (#11)
by AncientBrit on Thu Feb 9th, 2006 at 07:17:12 EST
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Some Mass. OpenDocument News (none / 2) (#12)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 10:03:27 EST
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Ran across a post about some in Mass. trying to pass a law to thwart the adoption of the OpenDocument format. I haven't researched any further, but the poster indicated there is a bill in the Mass. legislature that needs some action on the behalf of OpenDocument supporters. Sounds legit, but you may want to research some more if you think you are going to help.

http://bipac.net/issue_alert.asp?g=OPENDOCUMENT&issue=opendoc_leg&parent=OPENDOCUMENT

Jeff

Now thumbnails are not fair use? (none / 2) (#14)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed Feb 22nd, 2006 at 23:34:30 EST
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Here is a story about a Federal Court ruling that found Google's thumbnails infringed on copyright.

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This was in the Central District of California. It would seem to be in direct contradiction to the Kelly v. Arriba case in which thumbnails returned as part of a search were ruled a fair use and no violation of copyright law by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which covers California's Central District.

Jeff

Probe may lead to drop in cost of downloading (none / 2) (#17)
by br3n on Fri Mar 3rd, 2006 at 22:00:58 EST
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"High" costs to migrate to Linux? (none / 1) (#22)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Tue Apr 4th, 2006 at 14:21:55 EST
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Some news out today about the supposed "high" cost of migrating to Linux.

High migration costs holding back Linux

I guess with the Vista delay and the rest of the world moving ahead quickly, it's time to crank up the FUD.

JCausey

Oracle to swallow Novell?? (none / 0) (#23)
by AncientBrit on Mon Apr 17th, 2006 at 11:12:25 EST
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7354696c-cd86-11da-afcd-0000779e2340.html

Re: Oracle to swallow Novell?? by JCausey, 04/18/2006 22:03:33 EST (none / 1)

Bye bye spambot (none / 0) (#40)
by Potential Recruit on Tue Nov 28th, 2006 at 11:06:10 EST

This used to be a spambot post that is flooding the site. Due to volume, I had to resort to this while I work to block access by these bots. My apologies - thanks for your patience.

Jeff

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