-Kevin

Tonight Live: The "Dark Side" & Oh Please Mr. Sontag (SCO)>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight with an interesting twist.

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week and the expo. Tonight on the news: SCO cluelessness, lots on Microsoft, Consumer Electornics news, and several views from outside the community.

Story Links

• The News This Weeks
  • Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection- ZDNET
  • Did Linux lose a marketing opportunity?- CNN.com
  • Linux Set to Break Through in Consumer Electronics- Reuters
  • IBM steals server sales from Sun- By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com
  • Linux community told to 'get real'- by Bill Thompson BBC News
  • SCO: fee due even if you replace our code- by Karl Cushing ComputerWeekly
  • DVD-copying code loses free speech shield- By John Borland CNET News.com
  • Small Webcasters sue RIAA- By John Borland CNET News.com
  • New Office locks down documents By David Becker -- Staff Writer, CNET News.com
• Old SCO
  • Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO-
  • An Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
  • 'SCO' code could be written out of Linux-
  • Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO's Linux Claims -
  • CALDERA Employess work on Kernel- Jeff:I told you so
  • Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux- from e-week
  • SCO Owns Your Computer- Byte (how appropriate)
  • OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint-
  • Eric Raymond's attempt to find holes in SCO's claim-
  • SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight- by TODD R. WEISS of Computer World This may be the defining story of the entire SCO situation
  • SCO v. IBM satire. A Defining Moment- by Ed Foster
  • Warning: You may want to consider speaking a new language
• The SCO/Microsoft Connection
  • The Linux and Main Summary- has to be good, quoted jeff.....
  • Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft- By Dennis Powell
  • "SCO ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT" - the official press release
  • If it Look like a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!!
  • OK, So Why Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?- by Maureen O'Gara of LinuxGram

Segment Two- "Freedom's Dark Side- The iron fist, the invisible hand, and the battle for the soul of open source.- A view from outside the community.

Tonight we will have a conversation with Bruce Sterling , noted author and journalist to discuss his recent article at Wired Freedom's Dark Side; and will discuss the view of the oepn source community from the outside looking in.

Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, editor, and critic; was born in 1954. He has written eight science fiction novels and three short story collections. He edited the anthology MIRRORSHADES, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the nonfiction books THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992) and TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine.

He also writes a weblog and runs a website and Internet mailing list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial design. He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show, CBC's Morningside, on MTV, and in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Nature, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel.

He lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.

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