SCO vs. Novell

SCO vs Novell was a Federal lawsuit, it started in 2004 at a Utah Court and ended up at a Federal District court. SCO group filed a lawsuit stating they were the owners of the operating system Unix, they said the owned the rights of author for Unix. On the other hand Novell have bought the operating system long time ago in 1995 from the original author AT&T and during an agreement they said that they did not transfer the whole property rights, they transferred some responsibilities to the Santa Cruz Group, but those responsibilities were only to improve and license some rights of the Unixware. So, SCO though that with those transfers they already owned the whole thing, but they only had certain rights. Then after years of counter-claims, allegations and appeals the court ruled at Novell's favor and because obviously they were the owners in the first place and they will never transfer something that will give them a big profit, SCO ended up owing Novell millions of dollars and filing for bankruptcy.

Team FredNet and the Geogle Lunar XPrice

The team Frednet one of the groups competing to win the Google Lunar X Price, the team is known to the only team open source development team because anybody can contribute to their work that they are doing. What I like about this team is that any user can access their project, study it, change it and improve it. In my opinion this will help schools, and universities to educate people that interested in space research because most of the students do not have the possibilities to have their hands on a real space research project like this one. So I think the universities and colleges should collaborate with this only open source team to win the grand price! There are schools that have the monetary possibility to collaborate with projects like this one that would help the students with their space research and space travel exploration. The Frednet team is planning to start a Open Source Foundation to help individuals that want to do their own space projects or just to contribute with the education of those that need their help. So let's help Grand Open Source Project!!

Linux Kernel Numbering

The Linux kernel numbering system has changed since the first release. Not a big change since they only added one or two more number to the numbers it already had from the previous version. To my point of view they just did that to make it more confusing. I do not see any advantages to the change. The numbers are the same as versions, but only with different revisions and releases. The first numbering scheme was at least for me a little bit easier to understand. The first scheme was composed of three numbers, the first one was the version number, the second number was the major revision and this number was either odd or even depending if the version was developing or if it was already a stable version. And finally the third number was the minor revision which it changed when a new bug fix or new features were discovered.
After 2004 they have added one more number to the numbering version; now the first two numbers do not mean anything, the third is the actual version number of the kernel and the fourth are the fixes for new bugs or security problems.