SCO is finally “Dead Parrot” dead
SCO has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to its meet its maker. It’s joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-company. With apologies to Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch, SCO, the company behind...
View ArticleTop Holiday Tech Buys… of 1983 (Gallery)
Back in 1983 in Compute magazine, my friend Kathy Yakal wrote, that 1983 “might be the Christmas of the computer.” It would be the first holiday season when “the home computer [was] well withing the...
View Article10 years of defending Linux’s legalities: Groklaw
Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn’t know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal...
View ArticleSCO & Novell: Game, set and match
L Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah finally granted Novell’s request for declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO‘s last frantic attempts to keep any of its claims going....
View ArticleEven as SCO dies, the company lies
This would be funny if only there weren’t people out there who are fool enough to believe in any anti-Linus lie. I mean, how dead does SCO have to be before its anti-Linux FUD finally disappears into...
View ArticleMission Accomplished: SCO Loses, Groklaw Closes
Eight years ago, SCO, a long-time x86 Unix company, which had recently been bought out by Caldera, a leading Linux business of the day, shocked the IT world by suing IBM for stealing Unix code placing...
View ArticleSCO is dead, SCO Unix lives on
SCO, the anti-Linux lawsuit monster is dead. There are still twitches left in the corpse in the bankruptcy court morgue, but when even Groklaw retires from the field, you know SCO’s as dead as a...
View ArticleGroklaw 2.0: PJ Leaves Groklaw but legal news site to continue under new editor
amela “PJ” Jones, editor and creator of Groklaw, the leading open-source legal news and analysis site, has kept her word. After eight years, PJ is leaving Groklaw. The site though will continue under...
View ArticleGoogle+, Real Names, and Groklaw’s Pamela Jones
Around and around we go with Google+’s real name policy. Sometimes, Google seems ready to reconsider its policy of requiring Google+ social network user to use their “real name,” but then Eric Schmidt,...
View ArticleLast of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled
Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. While at the Linux Foundation Members Summit in...
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