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Techworld.com – IBM slams ‘grandiose’ SCO, asks for whole farce to be called off

Techworld.com – IBM slams ‘grandiose’ SCO, asks for whole farce to be called off

’bout bloody time.

Of course, I fully expect the lawyers for SCO to file some counter motion, appeal, or some such garbage to further obscure and cloud the whole affair.

First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
–William Shakespeare.

(except Gloria 🙂 )

Slashdot | SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD

Slashdot | SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD

I just don’t get SCO … or maybe it’s just that SCO doesn’t get it?

As far as I know, they have yet to provide ANY evidence their IP was infringed upon. Right now all they are doing is wasting everyone’s time (let alone money).

When are they finally going to learn that they can’t win?

On a brighter note, MKS was mentioned in the same SD Times article.

New Cool Tivo feature

Well, it’s not really a Tivo function as such … it’s just the Tivo Home Media Option (HMO) … but I’m running a server application on the linux box called JavaHMO.

This lets me server pieces of dynamic information to the Tivo music and picture displays.

So, in addition to the standard HMO music and pictures, we have some Shoutcast auido streams, the current weather, movie schedules, games (I haven’t figured out to get the tic-tac-toe game to work yet), even screen shots of the PC desktop (although that doesn’t work, because it’s running on the linux system).
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