SCO's Short-Term Win Won't Salvage Its Future, Jan 21, 2005

If SCO truly felt it had a winning case against IBM, it wouldn't make sense to delay as its once-successful business crumbles

Déjà vu in Brussels: According to statements by members of the government of Luxembourg and the EU Commission the Ministers of Agriculture in their meeting of the EU Council of Agriculture and Fisheries on Monday are to give the nod to the controversial position of the EU Council of Ministers on the Directive on the Patentability of "computer-implemented inventions".

Attackers are no longer bothering to attack average Linux systems, apparently because there's so much more money to be made from invading Windows, according to security researchers.

In line with its server product upgrade, Linux seller Red Hat will release a new operating system for desktop computers, a senior company official has confirmed.

Perhaps the strangest unexpected new use is a program that enables you to install Linux, the open-source operating system, on your iPod. The idea is that once you have installed Linux, you can use the native features of your iPod while taking advantage of additional applications written for Linux.

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