Zombie update: Invasion plagues the Inter-Webs
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| You already know about another kind of zombie--compromised computers--in IT
| security, but you might not know that a "zombie" in the investing world is a
| company actively doing business in spite of bankruptcy. Of course, we've had
| this kind of zombie in Silicon Valley for years now.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9808743-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
SCO and Windows have something in common though. They are zombies.
Related:
Night of the Living Vista
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| Today, I think of Vista as the zombie operating system. It stumbles around,
| and from a distance you might think it's alive, but close up it's the walking
| dead.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2190228,00.asp
IE6: The zombie browser
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| Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and
| perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse
| will take decades to decompose.
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http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/09/ie6-the-zombie-.html
Novell files to lift SCO's bankruptcy stay
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| Novell wants the money SCO owes it, and sooner rather than later. As Groklaw
| succinctly summarized it: "If the New York Daily News was coming up with a
| headline for this filing, it'd probably be something like this: Novell to
| SCO: Drop Dead. First Pay Up."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/04/novell-files-lift-sco
SCO Lawsuits: 'Misguided From the Start'
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| One takeaway of the SCO filing is that "dubious legal claims are not a
| business strategy," said Amanda McPherson, marketing director for the Linux
| Foundation. "Building a business on Linux, instead of attacking it, has led
| to prosperity. Compare SCO and Red Hat, for instance," she said.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/7fPaWU1asLvfB6/SCO-Lawsuits-Misguided-From-the-Start.xhtml
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| "There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market
| capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs
| funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of
| cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new
| SCO source business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill
| for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail."
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html
Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
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| Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a
| Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful
| example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between
| 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004
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