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The company that has warned major companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble shuts down its German Web site after a Linux advocacy group obtains a restraining order.

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The amount of biological data being created today is mind-boggling. As a biologist or bioinformaticist, you probably know of places around the network that provide very useful resources for your task at hand -- but remembering the different ways to access this information is often a productivity drain. This article takes you through a step-by-step approach to building a Java-based Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) authority from scratch. It demonstrate how to build this on a minimal data set and on data downloaded from the protein sequence database Swiss-Prot, all on the Linux platform.

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Executives of SCO Group on Friday plan to address questions about the company's Unix ownership, the foundation of its legal campaign against Linux and those who use that software.

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Linux founder Linus Torvalds says he agrees with some criticisms of SCO but calls for restraint in the tumult. SCO's chief, meanwhile, says legal action against Torvalds is unlikely.

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Novell on Wednesday said it never transferred the copyrights and patents of Unix System V when it sold the software to SCO in 1995. SCO claims all Unix flavors in use today are based on Unix System V, and that it owns the software code and licensing rights to that software.

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