Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Despite a cracker incursion into Debian Project servers this week, representatives of the Debian Linux distribution said the open-source code behind it remains untouched. Ian Murdoch, chairman of Progeny Linux Systems Inc. and founder of Debian, told eWEEK.com, “Fortunately, open-source developers tend to be very good at keeping cryptographic signatures on files and multiple backups […]

In view of the latest SCO lawsuit news conference, we have been talking to BSD professionals to get their opinions, including one of the principals in the AT&T vs. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. lawsuit settlement of 1994; a disillusioned former SCO employee; and several other BSD developers. At issue is the charge SCO has made […]

LAS VEGAS—Darl McBride, in his CDXPO keynote speech here Tuesday, sought to justify The SCO Groups legal position and its most recent actions to a small crowd of about 70 attendees. McBride, who was accompanied by a pair of security guards because of reports that his speech might be disrupted by protesters, said that as […]

Subpoenas here, threats of more lawsuits there, and talk of stopping Novell from buying SuSE: What does SCO think its doing? I think its business as usual for SCO. You must keep in mind that its to SCOs advantage to keep anti-Linux FUD going. If theres enough FUD, companies that use Linux will buy licenses […]

The SCO Group has announced it plans to take legal action to block Novell Inc.s proposed purchase of SUSE Linux AG. The company claims that it has inherited a non-compete agreement, which was part of a broader agreement signed between Novell and one of SCOs ancestors, The Santa Cruz Operation Inc., when Novell sold Unixs […]

If you want to really know whats what with Linux, LinuxWorld is the show for you. But, that said, between Comdex, Computer Digital Expo (CDXPO) and ApacheCon, theres more than enough happening in Las Vegas during the week of Nov. 16–20 to keep any open source user busy. ApacheCon is by far the smallest of […]

Would you believe that, even after the disappointing turnouts of the last few years, it might actually be worth your valuable reselling time to head to Comdex next week? We know, we know. Comdex is only a ghost of its former self. But weve seen signs that:1. Comdex is actually showing some signs of life […]

The SCO Group Inc.s spokesman Marc Modersitzki confirmed Thursday that the company had issued subpoenas to a number of companies and luminaries of the Linux community, including founder Linus Torvalds. In addition to Torvalds, the subpoenas were served to Digeo Corp., employer of Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton; the Free Software Foundation; Novell Inc.; the […]

SCO has been hammering at IBM for months now, but IBM isnt going to take it quietly anymore: IBM filed in court a “Reply Memorandum in Support of its Motion to Compel Discovery.” And you thought technology jargon could be a mouthful! The most important paragraph of the Reply Memorandum spells out what many of […]

If you cant beat em, join em. After spending the past three years campaigning against Linux and the dangers of its GNU General Public License, Wind River Systems Inc. has given in. The company in October released a version of its visionPROBE II hardware-assisted debugging tool for VxWorks, the first in a series of its […]

In a move that pairs two figures at opposite sides of Linux history, Caldera/SCO co-founder and former CEO Ransom Love is joining the board of Ian Murdocks Progeny Linux Systems Inc. Progeny will announce on Tuesday that Love has joined its board. Indianapolis-based Progeny was founded by Murdock, creator of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and […]

Despite rumors to the effect that IBM will be making a big Linux desktop announcement today at the Linux Desktop Conference in Boston, MA, IBM spokesman Michael Darcy insists that IBMs Linux desktop position hasnt changed. This first-time event is being sponsored by the Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC), a non profit organization dedicated to the […]