Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Days after a denial-of-service attack laid its Web site low, controversial Unix contender The SCO Group Inc. on Saturday was apparently hit by a second DoS attack. When alerted to the outage by eWEEK.com, Blake Stowell, director of public relations for the Lindon, Utah, company, checked with his companys IT department and reported to eWEEK.com, […]

The SCO Group Inc. lost its first hearing before the U.S. District Court in Utah in its suit against IBM Corp. on Dec. 5, but company officials dismissed this setback as having little importance. A magistrate of the U.S. District Court in Utah told SCO it has 30 days to respond to IBMs demands for […]

It will be two days before Christmas, and all through the world, not a creature will be stirring except Microsoft employees taking many programs off the Microsoft sales racks. Why? To make more money from you, of course! According to AssetMetrix Research Labs, more than 80 percent of companies are still using Windows 98 and/or […]

The SCO Group has declared that copyright law is on its side in its fight against the General Public License (GPL). There are plenty of legal experts who come down firmly on the side of open source, however; not surprisingly, those with whom I spoke this week gave me an an earful. “The SCO letter […]

Sun is doing well, extremely well, with its Java Desktop System. Who would have thought it? Sun, of all companies, is becoming a player not just on the desktop but also—thanks to its distribution deal with Wal-Mart—on the consumer desktop! Of course, JDS really doesnt have much to do with Java. Its really a combination […]

The SCO Group Inc. on Friday was dealt a legal setback in its case against IBM Corp. A magistrate of the U.S. District Court in Utah told SCO it has 30 days to respond to IBMs demands for details about the Linux code SCO claims encroaches on its intellectual property. Magistrate Brooke C. Wells said […]

Could Microsoft come out with its own Linux distribution? It sure could. Theres nothing in the GPL to stop it. And in fact, SCO CEO Darl McBride told me at Novembers CDXPO in Las Vegas that Microsofts second licensing payment to his company was for the rights to incorporate Services for Unix (SFU) into its […]

2004 will be the year of Linux. SCO may still be heading for the courts, but instead of charging forward, the anti-Linux company will be wobbling forward as the courts start knocking out its arguments. As a result, Linux will be free to grow more quickly than ever in businesses. In fact, Linux will be […]

The SCO Group Inc. earlier this month announced that it would file at least one lawsuit against a large corporate Linux user within the next 90 days as part of its effort to expand its legal war with Linux and its business supporters. This week, according to a LinuxWorld report, Lindon, Utah-based SCO picked its […]

Regardless of a recent move by The SCO Group to block Novell Inc.s acquisition of SuSE Linux AG, SuSE continues to evolve its product lines. The company on Tuesday released a service pack for its Linux server package and announced new partnerships. SuSE released Service Pack 3 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, which […]

When you read eWEEK.com and the following sites, youll be as well informed as its possible to be when it comes to Linux and open source. 1) Slashdot. I think of it as the water cooler for the Linux and open source nation. Sometimes, the discussions are off-topic, sometimes, the stores arent quite right, but […]

With its recent pronouncements about suing Linux customers and BSD, SCOs Darl McBride doesnt seem to be scoring very well in the good will department, judging from the reactions of Las Vegas showgoers. McBride spelled out some of SCOs latest plans at least three times yesterday: in a press teleconference; a speech at Jupitermedias Computer […]