With that in mind, I found something that relates to two of SCO's claims, first that it can sue over header files and second that it never deliberately released any code under the GPL. It's a request for help on a message board back in 1999 from a user trying to compile something called R, which is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, a GNU project. It runs on Windows and BSD and UNIX and Linux, and he was trying to get it to work on Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. The individual posts the problem encountered, which seems to involve a missing errno.h for linux file, and guess where the solution turns up? On one of Caldera's CDs that the person hadn't installed yet:

The kernel-headers were not installed on my machine, but there is a package on the Open Linux 2.3 CD. I believe they weren't installed simply because I didn't choose to have all the development tools/libraries added when I installed linux. I didn't realize how soon I'd be compiling things.

2. The missing package that led to my posting to this list. It can be found on the COL install CD and is called linux-kernel-include.rpm.

I'll show you both of the messages in full, and explain why I think this proves that Caldera did distribute under the GPL, making up a special package which included header files, and it distributed errno.h and one presumes the others on purpose, knowingly.

Ever since Steve Jobs addressed the adoring crowds at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the press, Apple fans - and most especially, Apple investors - have been concerned over the state of his health. The reasons are obvious: Five years ago, Jobs announced that he had been diagnosed, and cured, of a rare and happily less pernicious form of pancreatic cancer (the more common variety is almost never discovered before it has become incurable). And, when Jobs took the stage this June, he was far thinner and more haggard than he had ever been seen to be before.

Since then, although rumors have swirled, Apple has refused to state whether or not Jobs has had a recurrence of his cancer - or disclose any meaningful details at all. Even on calls with securities analysts, Apple’s response has only been that “Steve’s health is a private matter.”

Thus you might think that if you were a journalist, and you got a call from Steve Jobs yourself, giving you, and you only, the private scoop on the status of his health, you might feel like a pretty lucky guy, and take that news to the public within whatever constraints you had agreed to with the Apple CEO. Or would you write a different story entirely, and bury that news in the penultimate paragraph of a long story, and write at length instead about how stockholders were entitled to know the news that you had just buried?

With that lead in, you can guess which way New York Times business page columnist Joe Nocera called the coin toss. So here’s the good news about Steve Jobs (up front), and the bad news about a Journalistic decision.

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