Excellent new Crytpo-Gram from Bruce Schneier, including pieces on national ID cards, and a cost-benefit analysis of stealing an election (he's written extensively in the past about technical problems with electronic voting machines.)
Off-topic, but if you haven't seen the Salon article on "Linux insurance" and the blog that's helping to develop it, it's worth a read. Raises a lot of interesting, difficult issues, I think. I saved it here.
I hadn't read that article, but I am very familiar with the SCO case. Thanks for the link (and for saving it so I don't have to deal with the annoying daypass at Salon.) The groklaw site mentioned is the center of this community, and is a really great site.
"Linux insurance" is an interesting idea, but I think probably not necessary. SCO's claims are completely indefensible, and their chairman, Darl McBride, is (in my opinion) a complete crook. I say this because he really must know they have no case. They are just trying to scare people, get into the news, thus pumping their stock price before they cut and run (they are also heavily funded by microsoft to be a burr in Linux's side.)
IBM is *not* going to lose their case to SCO. But, yeah, it might take a while because SCO uses every dirty trick in the book to drag things out. And while it is taking a while there is some uncertainty among people who don't know the details of the case. And this hurts linux and helps microsoft.
On the other hand, when EV1 (a large hosting company) ponied up to SCO, they lost tons of customers who were outraged they would give into this sort of blackmail. So who knows. I seriously hope Darl winds up in jail. And I don't wish that on many people.
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- jim 4-15-2004 6:11 pm
Off-topic, but if you haven't seen the Salon article on "Linux insurance" and the blog that's helping to develop it, it's worth a read. Raises a lot of interesting, difficult issues, I think. I saved it here.
- tom moody 4-15-2004 6:58 pm
I hadn't read that article, but I am very familiar with the SCO case. Thanks for the link (and for saving it so I don't have to deal with the annoying daypass at Salon.) The groklaw site mentioned is the center of this community, and is a really great site.
"Linux insurance" is an interesting idea, but I think probably not necessary. SCO's claims are completely indefensible, and their chairman, Darl McBride, is (in my opinion) a complete crook. I say this because he really must know they have no case. They are just trying to scare people, get into the news, thus pumping their stock price before they cut and run (they are also heavily funded by microsoft to be a burr in Linux's side.)
IBM is *not* going to lose their case to SCO. But, yeah, it might take a while because SCO uses every dirty trick in the book to drag things out. And while it is taking a while there is some uncertainty among people who don't know the details of the case. And this hurts linux and helps microsoft.
On the other hand, when EV1 (a large hosting company) ponied up to SCO, they lost tons of customers who were outraged they would give into this sort of blackmail. So who knows. I seriously hope Darl winds up in jail. And I don't wish that on many people.
- jim 4-15-2004 7:38 pm