eWeek: New Tool Roots Out SCO Code

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SAN FRANCISCO—With legal terms such as liability, indemnification and lawsuit as prominent themes of the LinuxWorld show here, a small software company has addressed the issue with a solution to find offensive code.

Aduva Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a system known as OnStage that contains a feature known as SCO Check that will "conduct a complete inventory of your system and if SCO [The SCO Group] identifies some illegal code, we can do a check to find the code, identify it and then automate the replacement of that code" with Red Hat Linux or an appropriate fix, said Chris Van Turn, director of customer service for Aduva.

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Lindows continues its PC push

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The company, best known for its consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, on Thursday launched a $499 desktop computer with a flat-panel monitor. It's the second such announcement from Lindows in just a few weeks. In July, the company unveiled a $169 network computer, the WebStation, which lacks hard drive and floppy drive.

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Big Blue files counterclaims against SCO

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In a 45-page document filed late Wednesday, IBM argues that because SCO distributed a version of Linux under the open-source General Public License (GPL), it can't claim that Linux software is proprietary. IBM also argues that SCO software violates four IBM patents and that the company interfered with IBM's business by saying it had terminated IBM's right to ship a Unix product, AIX.

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IBM exec: SCO lawsuit a bump in the road

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The man who helped engineer IBM Corp.'s Linux strategy shared his thoughts on the impact of The SCO Group Inc.'s $3 billion lawsuit against his company during a keynote address at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Wednesday.

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Open-source guru says HP, IBM can hurt Linux

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The greatest threat to Linux may not come from known adversaries like Microsoft Corp. and The SCO Group Inc., but rather from its strongest supporters, open-source advocate Bruce Perens said at a press conference at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Wednesday.

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Baseline: Novell, Ximian: Opposites Attract

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After Novell's announcement this week that it plans to acquire Ximian, industry observers might be forgiven a collective "Huh?"

At first glance, the two seem to be the least-compatible of couples. Novell is first and foremost a server company; Ximian is primarily a Linux desktop company best-known for Linux's GNOME visual interface.

Novell has been turning rapidly into an open-source patron-specifically on the server side. In April, the company announced it would provide a Linux version of its network services (such as file and printer sharing and directory services) as part of its next major release of NetWare. And the company has made the Apache Web server and MySQL database part of its NetWare server software.

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GPL may be unenforceable under German law

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German has opened the doors wide open to open source software, with the federal government leading the charge. But users here could face some serious legal issues, according to Gerald Spindler, a professor of law at the Georg-August University in Goettingen.

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Bargain hunters moving to Linux

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Software management and acquisition costs can be slashed by switching to open-source software, according to IBM executives and Linux customers at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco.

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