eWeek: Maddog Bullish on Open Source

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Linux creator Linus Torvalds may be the main mouthpiece for open source, but another open-source evangelist-John "Maddog" Hall-is working hard behind the scenes to spread adoption of Linux.

If you were at this week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, you likely ran across Hall, who is executive director of Linux International-a nonprofit organization that disseminates information about Linux, its applications, and advantages-and author of "Red Hat Linux for Dummies."

Hall sat down with eWEEK's Craig Newell at the Ottawa Linux Symposium in July to talk about where he thinks Linux is headed. Excerpts of that interview appear below.

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eWeek: IBMs Letter to Internal Sales Force in re: SCO

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Editor's Note: On Wednesday, IBM filed a counterclaim against SCO in its ongoing intellectual property battle over Unix/Linux. Here is the text of the letter that IBM sent to its internal sales force on the suit.

IBM LAUNCHES COUNTER CLAIMS AGAINST SCO

Bob Samson
Vice President, Systems Sales
IBM Systems Group

IBM yesterday responded to SCO's amended complaint. We see no merit in their claims and no supporting facts. Significantly, IBM counter sued SCO on a range of issues. Simply put, SCO's scheme is an attempt to profit from its limited rights to a very old UNIX operating system by introducing fear, uncertainty and doubt into the marketplace.

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Storage Supersite: Fighting SCO Fear and Loathing at LinuxWorld

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Ignore the rah-rah speeches to the crowds of Linux faithful. Storage Supersite Editor David Morgenstern says that the Linux battleground has moved to small and mid-size businesses, where .Net development is a flashpoint.

SAN FRANCISCO-The floor of a technology trade show is perhaps the worst place in the world for dispassionate evaluation of a market. This was especially true at this year's LinuxWorld as developers (and most users) put aside the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about the future of the platform engendered by the SCO licensing brouhaha .

Despite the cheerleading from executives, that FUD may ripple for a long while through the small and mid-size business market, giving Microsoft an edge. Linux advocates hope that significant investment in the space may prove an antidote.

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eWeek: Novell: We are Not Dumping NetWare

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SAN FRANCISCO-Novell Inc. dismissed reports that it is planning to phase out new NetWare development in favor of Linux.

A Novell executive Wednesday told eWEEK that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans of cutting NetWare development in favor of Linux, as some reports had indicated.

Chris Stone, vice chairman of the company, said NetWare will continue in maintenance mode, comments Novell officials said were taken out of context.

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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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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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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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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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