The urge to link...

The SCO group seem to of been quite quiet of late, save href=http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5092081.html>backing down on

their invoice threat. Although their stock price is still (currently) quite

healthy some of their big investors have been href=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000104746903033257/a2118764zs-3a.htm>selling

all their stock. href=http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article.php/3092201>This

piece points out that SCO may be a good investment if you can

tolerate the risk that your investment may turn to a big fat zero.When the SCO case first started I like many other geek types was quite

shocked about the accusations being made about how Linux would be

nothing without the illegally copied code from Unix. While angering

the legions of geeks and pumping their stock price with a series press

releases the SCO case looked as though it would be the first serious

legal challenge to Linux that everyone knew would happen some time.

One of the reasons I'm less worried about it these days is due to

Pamela Jones's excellent Groklaw site.

Originally "just" a paralegal's personal blog it now serves as

the place to find informed, well researched, revealing

information on the twists and turns of the SCO case. The more I

read, the less I worry. Of course their are no guarantees when it

comes to the legal process but even given my complete lack of

understanding of how the US legal system works everything I've seen

seems to point at SCO not realising what they have stepped on. IBM et all have an army of

well motivated people (on top of their own well renowned lawyers)

looking at everything SCO says and subjecting it to forensic

analysis. To mangle Linus's Law "given enough eyeballs, all lies will be exposed".

While on the subject of Linus, href=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=>Wired

has done a pretty good write up on our beloved leader ;-) Although some

of the more complex issues (like the good old GNU/Linux naming debate)

are skipped over I'd recommend any of my non-techie friends reading it

if they want a bit more background to why I'm a big Linux fan.

In other news: It seems my desire for a direct neural interface may

not be that far

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