Follow ups

IBM countersues SCO, following Red Hat and SUSE. Apparently triggered by SCO's attempt to sell SCO Unixware licenses to Linux users, which, BTW, is a violation of the GPL. Bruce Perens points this out, and also points out the danger of patents to Open Source, which is worrisome given that part of IBM's countersuit alleges patent infringement.

So this is more of a mess than ever. I still don't believe there's any real merit to SCO's claims. But the FUD spewed by all this is a terrific smokescreen for more serious attacks on Open Source - namely, patents and other manipulations of IP protections.

What's the situation in Iraq? Depends on who want to believe. All I know is that two more U.S. soldiers are dead in an attack and more than 10 Iraqis died in a car-bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. Read Salam Pax for an insider's view.

Winning? Losing? The peace, that is.