SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west'
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CANNES, FRANCEÂ -- Protect your intellectual property (IP) now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits, The SCO Group Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride warned an audience of tech industry leaders, analysts, and investors at the Etre conference here on Tuesday.
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CEO asserts the future of software development will not be found in the open-source or proprietary models.
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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SCO, possibly one of the few companies to regard litigation as its main revenue stream, is considering scrapping plans to launch a corporate &quot;pro-SCO&quot; law and review site.
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Blog: As an industry we are terrible at working on interoperability.  The open source world should be the one to fix this.
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The SCO Group has asked the Utah district court overseeing its $5 billion suit against IBM to postpone any decision on any IBM dispositive motions - like the one the court is supposed to hear on Wednesday seeking a partial summary judgment in IBM&#39;s favor
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perspective Attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains the ramifications of a recent case on the future of open-source software.
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Red Monk&#39;s Steve O&#39;Grady told LinuxInsider that SCO&#39;s decision shows a lack of understanding of what drives Groklaw. &quot;The value of Groklaw is the community itself, with people attending
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Unix vendor SCO Group (Quote, Chart), in the midst of copyright infringement lawsuits over parts of Linux, reported a net loss of $7.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has -- again -- sought to have the pending legal claims by The SCO Group dismissed. According to a motion it filed in a U.S. district court, IBM argues that SCO has no evidence to support its claims that it appropriated confidential source code from Unix System V and placed it in Linux.
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Open source has many good uses.  Beating up one's competitors shouldn't be the primary one.
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(InfoWorld) - With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM unravelling, The SCO Group now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat. SCO made the statement in its most recent quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement, filed Tuesday. The company citedÂ its recent motion for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionÂ as well as a recent court setback relating to its intellectual-property claims as reasons for worry. "As a result of both the Court's August 10, 2007 ruling and the Company's entry into Chapter 11, there is substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a growing concern," SCO said in the filing. Last month a judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of UtahÂ ruled against SCO on several motions, finding that Novell, rather than SCO, owned the Unix copyright. Novell had sold SCO some Unix rights in the mid-1990s, but the court said that copyright was never assigned. "The effect of these rulings was to significantly reduce or to eliminate certain of the Company's claims in both the Novell and IBM cases, and possibly others," SCO said in its SEC filing. Several of the company's claims against IBM will be dismissed as a result of this ruling, SCO said in the filing, adding that there are still certain claims that remain viable, such as SCO's allegation that IBM engaged in unfair competition in its failed "Project Monterey" effort that was to create a Unix for 64-bit microprocessors. The rulings may also cost SCO a lot of money. The court said that SCO would have to pay Novell for past licensing deals it had struck with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft. This could amount more than $30 million, SCO said in its SEC filing. That's more than the $10.4 million in cash now held by SCO. The rest of the 10-Q statement, which covers the quarter ended July 31, is a litany of bad news. SCO's total revenue has dropped drastically year-over-year, its Unix business is down 37 percent, it made nothing from its SCOsource Linux licensing program, short-sellers may further drive the stock down, and the bankruptcy proceedings will divert a "significant amount" of senior management's time away from business operations, the filing said. SCO did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The company's detractors were not so quiet. The filings show that by declaring bankruptcy, SCO is hoping to stave off paying Novell the money it owes, said Pamela Jones, editor of the Groklaw.net blog, which has closely followed SCO's litigation. "They are, to my eyes, saying they don't want to hand over the Sun and Microsoft 2003 monies because it would put them out of business," she said.
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Adobe and MuleSource tune open source assault Radio Reg MacWorld, MacWorld, MacWorld. Let those proprietary clowns play with their toys and false idols. We'll stick with open source decency - thank you very much - and dish out Episode 9 of Open Season.â¦
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Open source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census -- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.The number of licenses sold gives vendors of proprietary software a pretty good idea of how many people are using their code, assuming there are not too many pirated copies in use, or licensed copies gathering dust on shelves. They can also draw on information about paid upgrades or service contracts, or sell unique license keys, verified by a central server each time the software is installed -- or even used.Open source software developers have no such luck; the very nature of open source licenses makes such verification methods impossible. One clue they have is a count of how many people have downloaded the software from their Web sites. Reaching 1 million downloads is a rite of passage for open source projects.&#160;SugarCRM, for example, passed that landmark in May.Such counts, though, may underestimate the number of users, as anyone who obtains open source software is free to redistribute it by any other means they choose -- as long as they accompany it with a copy of the open source license and make the source code readily available.On the other hand, they may wildly overestimate the number; people may download the software with no intention of using it, since there is no financial disincentive to doing so, or they may download it multiple times if they upgrade it, wipe and reinstall their system, or have several computers.To come up with an accurate figure for the number of users of various open source applications in the enterprise, OpenLogic has released an automated census tool, OSS Discovery, itself available under an open source license.It hopes that businesses will scan their machines using the tool and contribute the data about the applications they are using to an open database.The tool could offer advantages to IT managers too, said OpenLogic, enabling them to build up a picture of the software installed on desktops and servers around their business and compare it with that used in other enterprises.OpenLogic is looking for partners to distribute or deploy the software and wants open source software developers to contribute digital &quot;fingerprints&quot; of their applications that will enable the discovery tool to identify them. Those who help with the project will be offered access to the anonymous data gathered.OSS Discovery 2.0 is based on the company&#39;s OpenLogic Discovery tool and is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. This recently introduced license extends the GPL license to ensure that changes to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community, even if the modified software is not itself distributed.OpenLogic hopes to begin collecting census data early next year.
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Visitors to SCO's website this morning were treated to a rare moment of corporate self-awareness after hackers apparently replaced an image linking to the undoubtedly scintillating "Extending Legacy Applications and Databases to the Web and Wireless Devices with SCOx Web Services Substrate" with a graphic bearing the rather more promising "We own all your code - pay us all your money"
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Almost fully functional Cluster Watch: Day 6 It may have been CEO Darl McBride or attorney David Boies, but someone has stepped up to fix the SCO Group's web site.â¦
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SCO, the ever-popular Unix company, has come under attack from hackers once again. This time they have replaced the front page of SCO&#39;s Web site with their own version that parodies SCO&#39;s legal battles over Linux.