There is a line from the movie Star Trek V, The Final Frontier that I think is very parallel to the situation between SCO, IBM, and the development of the Linux kernel. In an otherwise medicore movie, there's this one scene where Capt. Kirk cuts to the heart of all of the philosophical debate about this being called God the officers of the Enterprise have just met.
Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride refuses to release that information out of fear the community would “launder the evidence.”
Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday. McBride's accusation cuts to the heart of the open-source movement's legal and philosophical underpinnings.
LAKE SUCCESS, NY and CULVER CITY, CA - April 21, 2003 — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), and industry leader in networked imaging solutions, and Codehost Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for manufacturers within the printing and imaging markets, today announced the availability of Codehost's BrightQâ„¢ suite of Linux and Unix-based printing tools for use with specific models of Canon's imageRUNNER line of multi-function devices, CLC Color Laser Copier/Printers, and wide format printers.
Over the last year, ATI has shocked observers by not only taking the video card performance crown from nVidia, but also keeping it. This trend appears bound to continue for the foreseeable future with the recently released Radeon 9800 that has taken much of the spotlight away from nVidia's card intended to surpass the 9700.
Amsterdam, Netherlands - April 2nd, 2003
High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released an aggressively-priced “all-in” RSF-1 solutions package to provide High Availability for Linux systems.
Fairfield, New Jersey and Culver City, California — April 8, 2003 - Kyocera Mita, one of the world”˜s leading document imaging companies, and Codehost, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for original equipment manufacturers within the printing and imaging markets, today announced a strategic alliance to distribute BrightQ software through dealers/resellers to customers who currently utilize a Linux or Unix environment for their printing projects. BrightQ's suite of Linux and Unix printing utilities has demonstrated perfect interoperability with Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS printers and multi-functional products (MFPs).
A few months ago I had a few minutes of free time on my hands and so I made a stop at Best Buy to browse for some networking equipment. As I walked toward the hardware section, a software package caught my eye that I hadn't heard of before: “Acronis PartitionExpert.” Realizing the need for a good partitioning tool in many environments that use GNU/Linux, I made a mental note to contact Acronis when I got back to the office.
1993: Young incorporates ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sells Linux and Unix software accessories and books and distributes a magazine called New York UNIX
Altadena, CA; Paris, France; March 25th 2003 — MandrakeSoft, a leading
provider of Linux solutions for the enterprise and for individuals, today
announced the immediate availability of Mandrake Linux 9.1 “Bamboo” for x86
processors. This new release is one of the most advanced and powerful Linux
systems currently available, with cutting-edge features such as Apache 2,
NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, “Zeroconf” network support,
WiFi support, and much more. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides an unequaled level
of comfort for users with a simplified graphical installer, a brand-new
“MandrakeGalaxy” theme, stunning anti-aliased fonts, and of course the new
KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 desktop environments.