almost back; thanks to the Governor. The appearance by Governor Dean here has created lots of excitement, some stir, and a bit of anger. I’ve been requested by the University to move my blog to a personal server, which is fine and right given FEC regulations.  [Lessig Blog]

This is something to keep in mind as you setup a blog or store any data for that matter: you may run afoul of the authorities.  As more folks move into blog space, universities and other institutions need to keep things like acceptable use policies up-to-date to take new uses into account.

5:59:22 PM    comment []  

SCO Expands Attack on Linux. SCO now claiming that Linux users are violating its UnixWare copyrights. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]

More FUD.  Copyright infringement needs to be proven in a court of law, not in the court of industry opinion.  I can't wait to see the letter SCO send out this time, offering companies, binary run-time licenses and then holding them blameless for past or future infringement.  So if a company refuses to pay, then what? SCO certainly can't afford to file a bunch of these suits, though at some point it is going to have to show the world the code or just shut up.

3:22:48 PM    comment []  

SCO Considers Linux License Fees - Now SCO is considering asking business users for a fee for every copy of Linux they run distributed by any of the vendors, including Red Hat Inc., SuSE Inc., Debian GNU Linux and Turbolinux Inc., sources said, adding that individual users would likely not have to pay. - EWeek

Now this is nothing short of extortion.  Pay up a fee on each copy of Linux you are running that is based on the 2.4 kernel and we won't sue you if we ever happen to prove that Linux is based in part on SCO IP.  What a nightmare.  SCO has no legal standing to make any sort of demand like this.  At best right now they have a breach of contract case against IBM.  They have not filed any copyright infringement claims anywhere except in the press.  This is a blatant PR play with the hope of generating some revenue or a payoff from IBM to just go away.

8:25:39 AM    comment []