Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

BayStar Capital Management LLC has finally told The New York Times what its problems are with The SCO Group Inc. But according to SCOs director of corporate communications, Blake Stowell, BayStar still hasnt told SCO why its pushing to redeem its 20,000 shares of SCOs series A-1 convertible preferred stock, thus getting back its $20 […]

The SCO Group Inc. announced Wednesday that it has hired Bert Young as the companys new chief financial officer. SCO is not saying whether the move is connected to BayStar Capital Management LLCs attempt to pull its investment in SCO. On April 15, SCO executives said BayStar Capital was seeking to redeem its 20,000 shares […]

Days after BayStar Capital Management LLC told The SCO Group Inc. that it was ending its agreement with SCO and demanding that SCO redeem BayStars 20,000 shares of SCOs series A-1 convertible preferred stock, SCO says it still doesnt know why BayStar is doing this. According to SCOs director of corporate communications, Blake Stowell, “BayStar […]

This could be the beginning of the end of SCO vs. Linux. Heck, it could be the end of SCO. I always thought SCOs position could crumble quickly. While I believed that they might have a contract case against IBM with regard to how Project Monterrey was handled, Ive never thought theyve had an intellectual […]

Fridays revelation of a rift between The SCO Group Inc. and its backer, venture fund BayStar Capital Management LLC, appears to have caught the Unix developer unawares. In an interview with eWEEK.com late Friday, Blake Stowell, director of corporate communications for the Lindon, Utah-based SCO, said BayStars “move came as a complete surprise.” “We received […]

Far from the limelight of the Utah court where IBM battles with The SCO Group Inc. over Linuxs copyrights, Red Hat Inc. has been seeking to block SCO from interfering with its business by SCOs continually stating that Linux violated SCOs Unix copyrights in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. Last week, on April 6, […]

Caught between the rock of generally unsympathetic European courts and the hard place of a U.S. District Court that wouldnt stop Microsoft Corp. from taking action in those courts, Lindows.com Inc. announced Wednesday that it is changing the international name of its operating-system product line from LindowsOS to Linspire. In addition, its changing its Web […]

Microsoft and Sun working together!? What next? “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria”!? Of course, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., who have a long history of hating each others guts, are not likely to work together for long. I think there were two major, short-term motivations that led the pair to […]

With little fanfare, Red Hat Linux 9 is nearing its end of life. Red Hat Inc. is encouraging its business customers to move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is asking its Linux-enthusiast customers to try the Fedora Project. But Progeny Linux Systems Inc. has another suggestion for these customers: Continue using Red Hat 9 […]

I confess that Microsoft has been surprising me a lot in the past few days. First, Microsoft paid Sun off, and then it released Windows Installer XML (WiX), a command line toolkit for building Windows installation packages from XML source code and vice-versa under the Common Public License (CPL) of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). […]

As expected, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour made a quick decision on Lindows.com Inc.s request for an injunction to stop Microsoft Corp. from continuing its international legal campaign against the Lindows name and trademark. It wasnt the decision Lindows had been hoping for. Coughenour ruled that, “[f]aced with an absence of precedent for an order […]

Linus Torvalds, Linuxs founder and leader, doesnt agree with The SCO Group Inc. CEO Darl McBrides characterization of Torvalds as being unwilling to look at SCOs Unix source code because “he didnt want to be tainted by it.” McBride made that assertion in an interview with eWEEK.com earlier this week. In his contradiction of McBrides […]