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The letter SCO sent to Fortune 1000 companies today says in part:
The ABI Code identified above is part of the UNIX Derived Files and, as such, must carry USL / SCO copyright notices and may not be used in any GPL distribution, inasmuch as the affirmative consent of the copyright holder has not been obtained, [...]

I went out to the movies Saturday night. Before the film, in the barrage of advertisements that seems to get lengthier every time, I saw an ad by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The ad featured a stunt man describing how difficult his work is and showing car chases with cars flipping over. Then [...]

New York Times is reporting that Downloading Music off P2P networks is legal under Canadian law. Problem is: uploading music is illegal under Canadian law. Simple point: There is an inherent contradiction in their position. At least a few people would have to be illegally uploading music in order to enable the perfectly legal downloading!
I [...]

Cringely argues that the best solution to e-Voting is Canada’s pencil and paper method. I agree that this has a number of advantages. But Cringely makes the same mistake that so many make when thinking about this issue: he fails to think about the disabled voter at all.
We have a principle regarding voting: A person [...]

I just sent this e-mail to ABC’s Peter Jennings and NightLine in response to ABC’s decision to cut off coverage of the Kucinich, Sharpton, and Mosley-Braun campaigns.
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Hi,
I’m writing to say I’m disturbed by ABC’s decision to cut off its coverage of the Kucinich, Sharpton, and Mosley-Braun campaigns. Without a single vote being cast, ABC is [...]

Slashdot readers learned recently that Debian’s servers were compromised. More info. And then learned that a kernel exploit was apparently the means of attack. It appears that the Free Software Foundation’s servers have been compromised using the same exploit. The servers are back up in part. You may recall, Savannah is a central point for [...]

Oh my goodness. I have no idea who these people are or what they are up to, but this video/animation is mighty funny.

The Washington Post provides this last letter written home (pdf) by Sgt. Michael Bitz. It will probably make you cry. It is part of a larger tribute the Post has put together called Faces of the Fallen. See also letters from Cpl. Kemaphoom Chanawongse and Lance Corporal Andrew Aviles. It’s one thing to read that [...]

Kucinich has a new ad up that a conservative blogger I won’t link to thought distasteful. Judge for yourself. One can argue that the deaths of U.S. soldiers ought not be used for political gain in a campaign. But that’s not the story here. People are in fact dying. These deaths are caused in large [...]

You may have heard in the news over the last year about the big battle over re-drawing the Congressional districts in Texas. The Democrats fled the state to prevent a quorum, so that the Republicans couldn’t force them to accept this bizarre re-districting map that guarantees more Republican seats next election. The Democrats in Texas [...]