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Submission + - Dan Lyons Repents Over SCO Reporting

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Groklaw Reader

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @11:18PM

Groklaw Reader writes: "Dan Lyons, long known for his stories claiming that SCO's cases had merit, has finally repented. With SCO in bankruptcy, he's finally admitted that "the geeks were right" and it's time for him to "eat crow." While it might just be a cynical ploy to troll for more page views, he could just as easily do that without admitting error—Maureen O'Gara, for example, still believes in SCO, even after all this. Besides, why pass up an opportunity to say "I told you so!"?"

SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @02:22PM from the comment-write-themselves dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""

Journal Journal: 1 Teraflops at only 62 Watts

Journal by tubapro12 on Sunday February 11, 2007 @11:36PM

AP has an article describing a new processor from Intel expected to run at 1.01 Teraflops while using only 62 Watts of electricity. While the chip is only in the research stage, its a very promising step for supercomputers.

Submission + - Do current Copyright laws still allow for backups?

Submitted by Ka D'Argo on Sunday February 11, 2007 @08:55PM

Ka D'Argo writes: I had a conversation with a associate of mine about making backups of software or music cd's. This person says under the new laws with DRM, copyright and fair use, you as a consumer are no longer allowed to copy in anyway such things. I say, as it's been for god knows how long, you are still able to make a backup of something you legally own. Common sense even says, it's yours to do with as you please if you legally own it (aside from distributing copies for example). So what's the deal? Under current laws that may or may not have been updated lately, can a consumer make a backup copy of a piece of software or music cd?

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