Search and replace SCO code

Linux developer Aduva released a tool at LinuxWorld that will allow companies to avoid getting caught in SCO Group`s legal net, if its lawsuit succeeds, reports TechWeb.

The battle between SCO and the rest of the Linux community - particularly IBM, which on Thursday counter-sued SCO - has made enterprises nervous about whether they`ll be the target of SCO`s lawsuits.

In the event that SCO prevails in the courts, IT staff could use Aduva`s OnStage to sniff servers for Linux code. Then, from one console, they can install non-proprietary, community-developed replacement code.

LWN.net has obtained a transcript of Big Blue`s counter-suit against SCO, and has put the text on its Web site, reports The Inquirer.

The document accuses SCO of creating fear, uncertainty and doubt - something that IBM has been accused of many times in the past.

The document also accuses SCO of orchestrating a press campaign, and "misusing" its purported rights to Unix to threaten destruction of the competing operating systems known as AIX and Linux, and to extract windfall profits.

This press campaign "not only included press releases and interviews", IBM alleges, "but [it also] held non-public meetings with analysts to disseminate its misleading" message about Unix, AIX and Linux, and to damage IBM and the open source movement.

Hewlett-Packard will introduce more than 100 new consumer gadgets today, from digital cameras to photo-quality desktop printers, in anticipation of what could be a Grinch-like holiday shopping season, reports eWeek.

CEO Carly Fiorina and other senior executives will unveil the devices at a New York gala that HP has called its largest product roll-out ever. The focus is on photography, entertainment and home computing, including some all-new products and upgrades of HP`s printers.