April 22, 2004
Toothaches & Novocaine
Posted by nerdling | April 22, 2004 10:42 AM
Aside from my ever-annoying incoming wisdom tooth and my impending afternoon appointment with my dentist to take care of it, today's news is interesting.
BayStar Capital, a major investor in technology, has sent a letter to SCO Group requesting the return of the $50 million investment made last October. SCO, as you might remember, is the company that is suing IBM, Novell, DaimlerChrysler and Auto Zone for what it perceives as outright theft from Unix. The loss of $50 million will certainly dampen the lawsuit against Linux, since carrying on four major lawsuits against very, very big companies is a time- and money-consuming process.
In keeping with my weekend's entertainment—watching movies, such as Last Call—the University of South Carolina just acquired a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's scripts, written toward the end of his life while living and working in Hollywood, at MGM. Sadly, Fitzgerald was not cut out to write for the screen and only one of the manuscripts ever made it on film. The rest are all preserved, most in his original penciled longhand, suited best for the reading public that made him famous.
