Monday, August 11, 2003

Jake's got a wizzy editor working in Radio and Manila in Mozilla on Mac. What a relief. Now when people ask where's the wizzy editor for the Mac there will be an answer. [Scripting News] Nice, but I'm happy with NetNewsWire's simple and effective editor. 9:31:18 AM

If you have been following the SCO war on Linux you may have seen the IBM countersuit. IBM has enough lawyers to crush SCO and it seems that good and righteousness may also be on Big Blue's side. [tingilinde] IBM's use of software patent infringement claims in its filing shows how a large corporation's patent portfolio can be used to bludgeon an adversary even when the dispute is over something else entirely. Whatever the main merits of this case, this use of software patents is exactly what many have been worrying about. And putting it next to a GPL infringement claim places the FSF in an awkward bind. 9:14:46 AM