05 Dec 2003
Slow News Day

Real slow news day - not much seems to be happening in the world at large. And I'm tired - worked on finished up the mud porch all day. Kris is a bit miffed because the winter storm watch we were under, which promised 6 inches of snow, has been cancelled - rain tonight, maybe an inch of snow tomorrow if we're lucky.

Oh well.

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More SCO Madness

SCO's McBride sounds off in Linux legal battle. Chief Executive Darl McBride invokes the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over intellectual property rights. Also: SCO postpones its quarterly earnings report. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Well, this story is all over the place today: this letter shows how completely out of touch with reality SCO is in their quest to lock up Unix... but what Linus Torvalds had to say about the whole matter was so funny it deserves to be reproduced here:

If Darl McBride [chairman of SCO] was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution.
[quoted at InfoWorld]

Lawrence Lessig has a great blog entry today on this very topic. Imagine that!

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Copywrongs

This is a nice piece on the whole "intellectual property" debate that's currently raging - lots of good background, lots of good points and cogent arguments:

Copywrong: Copyright laws are stifling art, but the public domain can save us [from The Independent Weekly]

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Books for Sale

Well, if anybody's interested, I just put a bunch of programming books up on Amazon - I set up a page of my own to list them here. Any techies, especially Windows system level coders, might find some pretty good stuff in there....

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