Who's Really Behind the Attack on Linux?

It looks like you know who may be bankrolling SCO's attack on Linux:

There you have it. A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to SCO, of which they have $68.5 million left. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new SCOsource business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail.

Thanks to Doc Searls for the heads up.

File under Geek Talk.

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A Dangerous Way Of Doing Business

So John Kerry thinks that he knows better than George W. Bush when it comes to dealing with terrorists:

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.

In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history."

If anything is reckless and inept it's Kerry's world view. Hasn't anyone learned that when you negotiate with these people you only encourage them to continue to use attacks like 9/11 to achieve their aims? Maybe he could take a lesson from this post over at Walloworld:

But there's another aspect to peacemakers that I think is important: peacemakers don't necessarily compromise in order to achieve that reconcilation. Jesus didn't compromise. He saw the money changers in the temple and he didn't sit down and carve out various money changing "locations." He kicked them out. Similarly, he was willing to call the religious leaders of his day a den of vipers, hardly an invitation to compromise in my mind.

The point is, there is another aspect of peace that comes from a clarity of vision and an acceptance of eternal truth. If you have that sort of peace, you want to pass it on. There is also the type of peacemaker who sees a problem and tries to resolve it, even if it means discomfort or criticism. A "peace lover" is not the same as a "peace maker;" far too often, those who are unwilling to address a problem for fear of disturbing "the peace" make nothing but trouble.

Wake up and smell the reality John.

Kudos to Gordon over at Dogsnot Diaries for bringing this to my attention.

File under The Presidential Election.

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Am I Living in the Past?

According to this I might be:

Turin - Your choice of chocolate can reveal much about your personality, including your preferences in bed, psychologists argue. . . .

Milk chocolate lovers, for example, tend to be innocent people who like to live in the past. Fans of dark chocolate, on the other hand, are materialistic, problem solvers who are excited by the future. White chocolate aficionados have an innate sense of fairness and believe they have the power of the universe at their command.

Food for thought I guess. Oh, my sides... I just crack myself up.

File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else.

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I Just Gotta Dive This Place!

At my dive club's monthly meeting our speaker gave a video and PowerPoint presentation on his trip to Sabah, the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo. SPECTACULAR! I definitely have to get over there and dive. There's alot to see and do on the land side too. Above and below sea level, tremendous bio-diversity.

I’d seen other places like Sipadan [an island off Sabah] 45 years ago but now no more. Now we have found again an untouched piece of art.. a jewel.

--Jacques Cousteau

Just one small problem though. A couple of years ago Muslim extremists attacked Sipadan Island and took 21 dive tourists and resort staff hostage. In fact, the Cyber Diver News Network has issued a travel alert for this area. Damn! I knew it was too good to be true.

File under The Undersea World.

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