Check out Groklaw for more information, cause I ain’t no Lawyer. That said, it looks like the court put the ball in Novell’s court.

Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
‘The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.’

That’s Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that “SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent”. That’s the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses.

Not sure about buying an iPhone…closed source, and expensive? Enter OpenMoko. OpenMoko is an Open Source project to create the world’s first free mobile phone operating system, and so far it looks impressive. With Wifi, GPS, and Multi-Touch screen it looks like a great alternative to an iPhone. Starting on July 9th you can get one, and it isn’t tied to any specific carrier. Two versions will be available…a standard version and a developer version at $300 and $400 respectively. The Devel version comes with a PCB debugging board, cables, and a Guitar pic and Torx screwdriver (to open the case). How cool is that?

** I know that Zooomr isn’t Open Source itself, But Kris does use a lot of open source projects to build the site. PostgreSQL, Linux, various javascript libraries, Python, etc.**

Zooomr Mark III: Hardware Crash PSA from Kristopher on Vimeo

It looks like the darkest hour…one that no one wanted to see. Kris Tate, a 19 year old programmer, has been working many long hours especially this last week trying to get the site upgraded to the newest incarnation, Zooomr Mark III. After the long wait everyone that had been following the progress during this time in the IRC chat room and on their Ustream channel was excited to finally see Zooomr up and running…for about 15 min. Then something bad happened.

That something bad was the machine that they had been using for production took a hard hit and went down. Looks like the Raid controller just couldn’t hang, and died. Soon afterwards a someone in the chatroom drove Kris to their datacenter only to find the machine in an unusable state.

Where does that leave it? I don’t know. What’s their next move? I think that they are now in that holding pattern to see if the calvary is coming and who’s calvary it is…

If you can help out a new start up…now would be a great time to step up.

I for one will donate a little something…and I will be hitting Dell, IBM, Red Hat, and Novell and filling out contact forms to see if I can drum up some action there. Won’t you join me? Feel free to Copy this text into feedback letters if you write companies.

More details to come but it looks like it is a Done deal…GPL V2 also.

Technorati Tags: java, gpl, open source

It has been a long busy end to the summer. There have been a lot of reasons that I have not had a new VS in a while, but that ends now. So thanks for Hanging in there. I am working on the next one now.

I have an iPod 20g 4th Gen (B and W Screen) that I want to trade for a iPod 4gb Nano. I want something smaller to use. If you are interested drop me a comment here, and I will get in touch with you.
The iPod that I have is practically mint.

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