HackFUD

Well, new domain name created. I hope you find it more appropriate!

I wanted to separate my personal blog from this project. Apart from the fact that my personal blog’s domain name is too weird for what I want to accomplish here, and also doesn’t particularly relate to the subject matter in hand.

So anyways, here we are, and hope you will participate in this experiment, and have fun with it too.

Regards,

Kevin.

Recently, Daniel Lyons wrote an article for forbes.com, explaining that he was wrong about the SCO lawsuits all along, following the judgment that Novell owns the UNIX and UNIXWARE copyrights , and that SCO was also guilty of conversion (of money that belongs to Novell).Mr Lyons said in his article that he was “snowed by SCO” , with the justification that in a previous lawsuit by SCO - at that time called Caldera - what they said to him then turned out to be true. He says in this article he went to talk to SCO management, who gave him lots of information on what they were going to do to various entities… suing Hollywood studios that use Linux rendering farms and the like.. and he duly reported that to the world.

I find it admirable that he has written to state he was wrong about the SCO Saga all along. I have no issues with that. What I do have issues with is his calling of the good people at Groklaw “nerds” and “amateur sleuths”.

No. They are not “amateur sleuths”. They’re a collection of people who want to make sure that what is reported to the world is fair, balanced, and based on fact and truth. Groklaw didn’t just report what SCO management said, they also checked what was being said against known facts, and offered a report with opinion based on those facts. Check for yourself the history of the reporting of the SCO cases - in every published article the opinions stated, say by Pamela Jones (who runs the site), are backed up by well researched factual information.

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