SCO vs. Novell

         In the SCO v. Novell case it was a legal battle over ownership of the source code for the UNIX operating system, including part of Linux.  It all started when  In the early 1990's, AT&T sold the UNIX code to Novell and  Novell partially sold some of the rights of UNIX code to Santa Cruz Operations then A few years later, Santa Cruz Operations sold the UNIX code to the SCO. A couple of years later SCO decided to seek legal action against Linux manufacturers and distributors for what they believe were a copyright violation.  The case went on for a few years, but it all finally ended on March 2010 when the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Novell. It was a victory for Open source project!

The Google Lunar X Prize

        I don’t agree with Fred Bourgeois and his plan of spending a considerable amount of money in a project that I consider unnecessary at this time, if ever. I think the time and cost invested in this project outweighs the benefits. I’d agree on motivating people to create and explore ideas like these, to think above and beyond to captured data from the moon and even other planets. But in this particular case, and taking into consideration our economy I don’t think it’s worthy to invest Millions of dollars in such project when there’s probably other ways to make open source projects here on Earth that could be more useful at a lower cost.

how Linux kernels are numbered

          In my research about of “how Linux kernels are numbered” I found out that there are two ways for numbering the Linux kernel: Even numbered kernels such as versions v2.0, v2.2, v2.4 are stable kernels, because it has been fully tested after to introduce all feature and drivers. So this is considered a stable version while the other one odd numbered kernel such as versions v2.1, 2.3 and so forth, is considered unstable versions because those one are performed by developments without previous test. I think it has advantage mainly in novice users because now is easier to  know what version is better when a user want to update a Linux operative system.