Thursday, September 04, 2003

SCO says it signs new Linux customer. Hoping to build a $12 million line of business during its current fiscal quarter, The SCO Group Inc. claimed Wednesday to have signed up at least one new customer for its Linux licensing scheme and is retooling its sales force to make its case more effectively to a skeptical market. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Vermont Law School dean to step down. AP reports that Vermont Law School dean L. Kinvin Wroth will step down from the school's top job next summer. In other law school news, the Bismarck Tribune carries an opinion piece advocating that a University of North Dakota School of Law clinic should [JURIST's Paper Chase]

Dean Wroth is a member of the CALI Board of Directors through 2006.

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Will Richardson: Manila Procedures Manual. [Scripting News]
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Microsoft Patches Five Security Flaws Finally, a "low" risk assessment is placed on a NETBIOS issue that could allow a malicious user to view data on a target machine. Every NT based version of Windows from 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 is affected. However, both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are shielded by the Internet Connection Firewall found in each operating system. [BetaNews.Com]
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Windows Rights Management Debut Draws Concern Windows Rights Management (RM) is designed to extend Windows functionality to permit "DRM friendly" applications such as the forthcoming Office 2003 suite to lock down sensitive documents from prying eyes. The RM client provides fine-grained content protection across all product lines. [BetaNews.Com]

Sounds fine if you have content to protect, but it is also a lockin to MSFT systems.

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