LINUX PIPELINE NEWSLETTER
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

In This Issue
1. Editor's Note: SCO Gets More Bad News
2. IBM Launches Linux Push In Brazil 
3. SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit 
4. Sun Backtracking On Promise To Open Solaris
5. Xandros Gives Away Desktop Linux 
6. Mozilla Updates Firefox Web Browser   
7. SCO's CEO: 2Q Loss Won't Halt Battle Against IBM   
8. SCO Seeks To Delay Start Of Trial Against IBM 
9. Only The Best Linux And Open Source News
10. Voting Booth: Cast Your Vote On User Interfaces
11. This Week's Top Story From Server Pipeline
12. Shameless Self-Promotion

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1. EDITOR'S NOTE: SCO Gets More Bad News

SCO is in the news again this week, as a federal judge gave the
company 30 days to specify the damages it claims to have suffered
when Novell publicly challenged SCO's claim that it owned the
copyright to Unix code that allegedly became a part of Linux. 

The SCO-Novell lawsuit is an offshoot of SCO's original lawsuit
against IBM, which claimed that Unix owns copyright to Unix code
that IBM wrongly included in Linux. When Novell claimed that it,
not SCO, owned the copyrights, SCO sued Novell. 

In addition to demanding the additional specifics from SCO, a
U.S. judge last week denied Novell's motion to dismiss the suit
and SCO's motion to move the case to state court. 

SCO posted a nearly $15 million loss in its second fiscal
quarter, as users are slow to sign up for its SCOsource licensing
program. SCOsource is a program that allows Linux users to buy
Unix licenses from Novell; the company took in a startlingly
small $11,000 revenue in the second quarter. 

But the company said it has enough cash to continue its
intellectual-property litigation for several years. 

SCO executives said it has a $48 million war chest to fight
lawsuits against IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and customers AutoZone and
DaimlerChrysler. 

In other legal action, SCO sought a five-month postponement of
its trial against IBM until September 2005. 

--Mitch Wagner, Editor
Linux Pipeline
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/
mailto:mwagner@cmp.com?Subject=LPNfeedback

For more commentary and links from Mitch Wagner, see Wagner's
Weblog
http://wagblog.internetweek.com

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2. IBM Launches Linux Push In Brazil 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21800200
Brazil's major banks, retail chains and government entities are
targeted.

3. SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21700451
Novell says it was "encouraged" by the judge's order for an
amended suit from SCO.

4. Sun Backtracking On Promise To Open Solaris
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21800044
Sun says its definition of open source is different from others'.

5. Xandros Gives Away Desktop Linux 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21700217
Open Circulation Edition is a scaled-down version.

6. Mozilla Updates Firefox Web Browser   
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21700186
The newest version includes a new interface theme for Linux,
Windows and Mac OS X.

7. SCO's CEO: 2Q Loss Won't Halt Battle Against IBM   
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21700188
SCO CEO Darl McBride is confident that SCO's Unix ownership
rights will be confirmed and SCOsource licensing revenue will
improve.

8. SCO Seeks To Delay Start Of Trial Against IBM 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21600179
In addition to asking for a delay until September 2005, SCO also
requested that the court split IBM's counterclaims against it
into a separate case.

9. ONLY THE BEST LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS:
 	
Fairfax County Schools Turn To Linux For Business Intelligence
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21800250
The debut of Business Objects' Crystal Enterprise 10 for Linux
moved Fairfax County School District a step closer to its goal
of migrating from Windows to Linux.

Group To Develop Infiniband Linux Software 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=21800400
 	
Business Objects' Crystal Enterprise To Support Linux
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21402279
	
Guardian Digital Upgrades Open Source Secure Mail Server
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/21402264

ServGate Adding Web Filtering To Security Appliance 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=21800053

10. VOTING BOOTH: Cast Your Vote On User Interfaces
http://linuxpipeline.com/vote/interface_040608.jhtml
Best user interface: KDE, GNOME, Command line, other?

THE RESULTS SO FAR:

KDE: 52%, 76 votes out of 146
GNOME: 18%, 26 votes
Command line: 19%, 28 votes
Other: 11%, 16 votes 

11. THIS WEEK'S TOP STORY FROM SERVER PIPELINE

Cool Servers Are A Hot Issue
http://www.serverpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=21800060
The war against the heat can be won only if equipment and the
environment are optimized. 

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