Another example why news organizations don't have a clue as to what is going on. [John Robb's Weblog]

" The News Standards Summit will bring together major players--experts on
news metadata standards as well as commercial news providers, users, and
aggregators. Together, we will analyze the current state and future
expectations for news and publishing XML efforts from both the content
and processing model perspectives. Our goal--to increase understanding
and drive practical, productive convergence. "  News Standard Summit

According to the announcement all interested parties are invited to attend.  The keynote is from Lexis-Nexis, folks who do know a bit about gathering and disseminating information.  I'm a little puzzled by the comment above, as well as this from Scripting News: "Another summit you weren't invited to. "  OK, so this was put together without including the blogging world directly, but it does seem to be directed at professional, traditional, news sources.  If I were John and Dave, I'd show up and ask all the good questions.

9:23:18 AM    comment []  

InformationWeek > Linux > SCO Group Raises Battle Cry Again > November 18, 2003 - "SCO Group has once again applied pressure to the market to pay it for its Unixware licenses or face legal action. CEO Darl McBride said Tuesday that within 90 days his company plans to identify a large Linux end user who hasn't properly paid for the SCO Group intellectual property that he claims is underlying Linux, and "vigorously" pursue legal action against that company. "

This is just silly.  In order to d othis SCO would need to show that there is copyright infringement and that means revealing the code which it has steadfastly refused to do.  This would appear to be yet more FUD intended to extort license fees out of the easily intimidated.

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