SCO says it has made no decision on Unix "IP", Jan 14, 2003

A story at Linux Business Week, originally published by Client Server News, raised a ruckus in the Linux community. SCO, it said, had drafted a press release that detailed plans to cash in on its Unix patents, either by charging an extra license fee to users of its Linux distribution, or by "pressing infringement claims" against other Linux distributions, possibly even fellow members of the UnitedLinux tribe.

But it's just not so, says Gael Duval, one of the founders of Mandrake Linux, whose charge it is now to communicate with curious reporters. We'd heard tell of a memo floating around with former CEO Jacques Le Marois' name on it (he's still president). Duval doesn't confirm or deny the existence of the memo, which purportedly contains statements to the effect that Mandrake could file the French equivalent of a Chapter 11 in the near future

Recently, the company has begun building audio and home theater equipment with built-in Ethernet ports, rather than some proprietary connectivity scheme

The Apache HTTP Server has been graciously updated to version 2.0, and the package has been renamed httpd. You can use the HTTP Configuration Tool to simplify setup. If you've used the tool in earlier versions of Red Hat Linux, you should feel right at home in using the latest version. Your Red Hat manuals can fill you in on the details of migrating from earlier versions.

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