This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

In English class, "back in the day," I was taught that T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" (the ending is quoted from memory above) was the greatest poem of the 20th century. (With apologies to Langston Hughes, Alan Ginsburg, and anyone who wrote after 1970.)

What's so great about the poem is that, in journalism, it's so often true. Especially in technology journalism.

Heard from SCO lately?

Here's why. Their legal funding, BayStar Capital, is backing away. And their big case against Daimler-Chrysler got laughed out of court almost as loud as Bill O'Reilly was when he sued Al Franken.

The laughter was good for both O'Reilly and Franken, who both crave publicity. But when you think you've got a serious case then laughter from the judge's bench is not what you want to hear. It's the kind of bang that leads to whimpering, and if you never read of SCO again, well, I warned you that might happen.

What this means is that the legal threat to Linux is dead. Long live open source. The short version is you have your rights, now create something wonderful.