[ILUG] ``Hoist by their own petard!'' (Caldera ("SCO")), ``Insert snide Microsoft security remark here'' (Internet Exploder and FireFox)

[Brian Foster]

Good Morning Silicon Valley
  Published: Thursday August 19, 2004
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     Hoist by their own petard!

 Let it never be said that IBM's legal team lacks a sense
 of humor.  On August 16, Big Blue filed another motion
 for partial summary judgment against SCO, this one for
 copyright infringement.  In that motion IBM, which stands
 accused of misappropriating SCO's Unix source code,
 claims SCO copied hundreds of thousands of lines of IBM
 code and, because it has renounced the GNU Public License
 under which that code is distributed, did so illegally.
 "SCO has literally copied more than 783,000 lines of code
 from sixteen packages of IBM's copyrighted material,"
 IBM's motion reads.  "As a result of SCO's copying and
 distribution of IBM's code, SCO has unlawfully exercised
 IBM's rights to its works, and therefore infringed IBM's
 copyrights.  Although IBM's contributions to Linux are
 copyrighted, they are permitted to be copied, modified and
 distributed by others under the terms of the GNU General
 Public License ("GPL") or the GNU Lesser General Public
 License ("LGPL") (collectively, the "GPL").  However,
 SCO has renounced, disclaimed and breached the GPL and
 therefore the GPL does not give SCO permission or a
 license to copy and distribute IBM's copyrighted works."
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     Insert snide Microsoft security remark here

 The Windows XP Service Pack 2 hasn't even been available
 for a full two weeks and already we're hearing reports
 of vulnerabilities.  First there were the ZoneID flaws
 reported by Heise.  As some observers and even Microsoft
 itself have noted, these flaws are not only minor, but
 affect other operating systems and browsers as well.
 Nothing to worry about really.  But another flaw, reported
 on some security mailing lists might be more cause for
 concern.  Certainly it's one more good reason to dump
 Internet Explorer for FireFox.
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 Good Morning Silicon Valley is written and edited with
 the able assistance of John Murrell.

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