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Comment Shooting themselves in the foot? (Score 1) 326

by slagish666 (#25776899) Attached to: French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge

I wonder how many IT departments in the French government use and even depend on non-p2p applications hosted on SourceForge.

Of course, no one listens to IT, heh, but if SourceForge were to forced to prohibit downloading by all French sites, including business and government, I'm sure the position of the government would change pretty quickly.
The Courts

SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321

Posted by Zonk 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.""
Media

New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" 554

Posted by kdawson from the go-ahead-revoke-all-the-keys dept.
Tuoqui writes "With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number, people may be ignoring a bigger weakness in the AACS armor, which emerged two weeks ago. Some hackers have figured out how to crack AACS in a way that cannot be defeated, even by revoking all the keys in circulation."
Microsoft

Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux 470

Posted by CmdrTaco from the this-can-only-end-badly dept.
daria42 writes "Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world.""

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