Obituaries
Dennis Ritchie also helped write the popular C programming language.
Business
A U.S. judge ruled that SCO Group did not have copyrights that are key to its claims of ownership of technology used in Linux software.
Technology and the Internet
SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming that its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.
SCO Group Inc. said it registered a copyright for its Unix software to strengthen its lawsuit against IBM Corp.
The move intensifies a legal dispute over the rights of companies to the popular Linux operating system.
Disappearing stories have been a popular product for other social media companies, but Fleets didn’t drive any meaningful revenue for Twitter.
IBM Corp. is to unveil a new server computer today that an analyst says gives the world’s largest computer maker a temporary advantage over two key rivals.
Compaq Computer and Microsoft on Thursday announced an alliance aimed at easing the way in which corporate computer operating systems developed by the two work together.
California
The College of Extended Learning at Cal State Northridge is offering a five-day certificate program at the Ventura campus on the “UNIX System and Network Administration.”
Compaq Computer Corp. said its computers running high-powered Alpha processors won’t be compatible with future versions of Microsoft Corp.’