Still busy.

I was fairly amused by this Slashdot article. It seems that SCO, purveyors of one of the most shitful Unix distributions in history, is suing IBM, claiming that IBM has swiped SCO intellectual property and given it to Linux.

If you're wondering why IBM would want to steal SCO's IP (that'd be sorta like Bushmills stealing the Soviet recipe for making hooch from cabbages and aircraft wing de-icing fluid), it's widely believed that this is a "profit-by-lawsuit" move on SCO's part (see also: Unisys and the GIF/LZW patent flap).

That could backfire, though. This is the same IBM that kept the U.S. Department of Justice in court for 13 muh-fuckin' years.

SCO has a total market capitalization of about $26 million. IBM has FIVE BILLION IN CASH.

I see this playing out like the scene in The Godfather where Sonny and Paulie smash the camera to bits, then contemptuously flip a handful of bills at the photographer.

Still very, very busy here. I did take the time to add some more entries to the blogroll. The people who appear there are all well worth reading. To keep the size under control, I'm limiting it to blogs that I consider top-quality and which deserve a wider audience. In a few cases I've added a link because the blog owner wrote me, telling me that he/she was linking me. Thanks, everyone!

I'm still thinking about whether I should link Glenn Reynolds, Lileks, etc. On the one hand, I read those guys every single day. On the other hand, is yet another link to InstaPundit necessary? I mean, is there anyone who doesn't already read InstaPundit? Perhaps the blogroll space would be better used for a smaller-readership (but still high-quality) blog. On the gripping hand, if you adopt that policy, where do you draw the line? Andrea Harris is linked all over the place (and deservedly so... it's my second stop after InstaPundit).

I may go to a ranking system in which the number one spot goes to the blog I visit most often and so forth. Be looking for further changes.

I won't link to anyone who I consider a babbling idiot. This includes sites such as:

Atrios and Hesiod (on the so-called left)

Free Republic and Lew Rockwell (on the so-called right)

I also won't link to anyone who supports (or even marches with) a group that I consider morally repugnant. This includes the KKK, the Nazis, Stalinists, religious nuts of the Jerry Falwell stripe, man-bashing "feminists", and so on.

Nor do I want any links from such people.

Current reading: Too busy to read anything other than code.

Current listening: Nirvana: Nevermind