That's just nonsense. SCO lost ALL their lawsuits. There is NO argument against Linux - it is pervasive everywhere except the (now declining) PC desktop. A jury decided that SCO did not ever own Unix (Novell did, and retained ownership) after SCO appealed previous judgments that also said Novell was the owner. Your lawyers advised your company badly and wrongly. My company at the time also got the letter from SCO: we binned it as the trash that it was. Virtually no-one paid the $699 extortion fee. It's now time for the IBM nazgul to finally squash the SCO zombie out of existence. I reckon some former SCO execs (The former CEO, Darl McBride; the (dis)information mouthpiece, Blake Stowell to name but 2) should face prosecution for all their lies and corporate malfeasance.

And it looks like what they're doing DOESN'T help detect malware... http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html >>>>>> "Skype may use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to (a) identify suspected spam and/or (b) identify URLs that have been previously flagged as spam, fraud, or phishing links." A spokesman for the company confirmed that it scans messages to filter out spam and phishing websites. This explanation does not appear to fit the facts, however. Spam and phishing sites are not usually found on HTTPS pages. By contrast, Skype leaves the more commonly affected HTTP URLs, containing no information on ownership, untouched. Skype also sends head requests which merely fetches administrative information relating to the server. To check a site for spam or phishing, Skype would need to examine its content.

This is exactly the kind of thing M$ complain about in Google. M$ are at best hypocritical.

So, as this topic is about Linux as a desktop OS, and the vast majority of users only ever deal with the desktop, why not market the wonderful choice of desktops? All the distro vendors could chip into marketing funds for the various desktops - don't know on what basis - and they would all benefit from the visibility.

Bullcrap. Look up Mike Anderer and the Halloween Memo.

Groklaw merely reported what SCOX did. One of the main reasons SCOX lost was because GL kept exposing their lies to the cold light of analysis and logic. If that hadn't happened, it's quite possible that SCOX may even have got away with some or all of their extortion scam. Instead of that, SCOX is dead, and GL is archived at the Library of Congress. And, if you are unhappy with lots of discussion and dissection of this news here, why did *you* contribute to it?

I found this page, and just checked in a copy of windows7. MS ship the entire TZ database in the registry of every copy of windows....... http://unattended.sourceforge.net/timezones.php Which points to a registry key....... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones And that has the TZ values in plain text..... Astrolbae should take on M$.

Does this guy really expect to be taken seriously? He claims that iPhone is more secure than Android, and they still launched for iPhone???? I bet they're hoping that WIndoze Phone 7 gets some sales(however unlikely that seems right now), so they can scare the victims into buying their security app for that. I reckon that they are starting to see the end for windoze and the demise of their dismal, unnecessary businesses, so they're trying to scare up business elsewhere.