SCO has filed its First (Non-Substantive) Omnibus Objection to Claims [PDF], which I gather is where a company tries to shuck off any claims they think they can. And the omnibus hearing scheduled for October 15, 2008 has been cancelled.

The Open Road: "Or how about Cisco, with this impressive list of open-source licenses used for software embedded in Cisco's security appliances?"

LinuxInsider: "Yahoo could use a calendar, or 10 of them, to measure the time that's passed since the last time it updated its calendar offering. On Wednesday, though, Yahoo rolled out a beta version of its calendar app, complete with

Linux Journal: "eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people - 10% of its workforce - redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of

Linux.com: "The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux users are fortunate to have a number of outlining applications from which to choose."

SUSE & openSUSE: "With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system."

Ubuntu Kung Fu: "Wouldn't it be useful if you could add your own right-click option that performed a specific action on the file? For example, if you right-clicked a Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org document, how about if a Print document

Ars Technica: "750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy."

Datamation: "Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org

Daily Artisan: "Linux is a secure and stable OS but is still vulnerable to bugs, security leaks and intrusion attacks specially if you are using it as a web server. To detect such attacks and security holes, security tools are

Tech Treasures: "when Richard Stallman, the Dean of the free software movement weighs in that it's actually stupid, it's going to make you stand up and take notice. So to get yet another view on all of this, I had

Phoronix: "Using MultiView on Linux you can easily drive four, six, or even eight screens. In fact, up to 32 displays are theoretically supported on a single system (permitting you have enough graphics cards and PCI Express slots). MultiView also

LinuxPlanet: "Akkana Peck shows how you can speed up your Web searches with custom bookmarklets-- you don't need to be an ace coder to create your own; it's easy, fast, and powerful."

Linux-Magazine: "Bottomley instead likened the OS X to a luxury jail and that Microsoft users are clearly finding themselves in one with dirty toilets in comparison. Mac users, he says, can't even see the cell bars for the plasma screens

HowtoForge: "Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This

Techworld: ""One thing that Jabber allowed us to do was to provide server side rosters so that when a new user starts, they already had everyone else in their contact list," he said. "By looking at another user's profile, they

This week in PDF has seen the release of a tool designed to combine digital and hard-copy workflows, an update to a digital rights management (DRM) solution and the launch of a subscription-based learning resource for Acrobat and PDF JavaScript.

Open source CMS provider Plone kicked off Plone Conference 2008 today in Washington, D.C., with founders Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan presenting their annual State of Plone address.It's been a rough start for Plone Conference 2008. We swamped the network

Opera Software announced the release of the newest version of their Web browser, Opera 9.6. With as much gusto as we imagine a software company can possibly muster, their Web browser boasts not only speed and performance improvements, but also

Presented by Nate Aune, Jon Stahl, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Geir Baekholt, Matt Hamilton and Brian Gershon as part of Plone Conference 2008, this panel discussion focused on the Plone consulting world.We have a lot of consultants in the Plone community. As