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With over a year since Hewlett-Packard Compaq merger, it is about time HP decided what to do with OpenVMS. Its limbo state is beyond all reason. It is still better than Unix, Linux, Windows for security, clustering. [The Inquirer]

HP should be more active with marketing it, or sell it to concentrate on less profitable product lines it is so enamored with. If OpenVMS is as profitable as claimed, where is the money going? [The Inquirer]

Hewlett Packard announce the availability of OpenVMS 8.1 for Itanium based systems.

SCO, pariah of IT industry, got what may be legally damaging return fire from German Linux kernel developer, an email presenting SCO with formal notice alleging GPL copyright infringement was sent the firm this weekend. [The Inquirer]

A German claims he has managed to look at SCO evidence about Linux, without needing to sign one of the very irritating non disclosure agreement (NDA) documents, via someone's mistake in a law office. [The Inquirer]

Reports say SCO may have violated GNU General Public License, GPL; eWeek says parts of Linux kernel code were copied into Unix System V source tree by former or current SCO employees. [The Inquirer]

Today's Wall Street Journal quotes SCO outside lawyer Mark Heise saying GPL is preempted by US federal copyright law; GPL license lets software and work derived from it be copied by anyone at no charge. [The Inquirer]

Reader email shows that SCO-Caldera changed their policy about GPL quickly, documents this with quote from SCO website: this material is provided AS-IS and at no charge. [The Inquirer]

Reader letters with links and quotes from SCO website showing SCO use of GPL principles, with some insightful comments. [The Inquirer]