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I can’t say how happy this makes me! You can read the actual articles from Digg, Reuters, Salt Lake Tribune, Information Week or any of the other sources from Google news. SCO didn’t acquire any ownership from the deal with Novell. SCO can’t sue IBM because they don’t have any standing. Novell on the other hand does have standing to sue IBM but Novell directed SCO to waive all rights in regard to this. Also it is important to note the following.

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For many small Windows programs I use AutoIT (I’m not much of a programmer) and in Linux I do a lot of Bash scripting (comparatively). In middle school I took a computer course where I learned some Basic programming. I really started learning programming on my TI-83 using kinda a form of Basic. I was interested in games and how they worked so I tediously copied the entire source from them onto paper to learn from it. Eventually I wrote a game for it (hah it still exists) and I was planning to port it to Z80 Assembly (since it was sloooooow, and it would run out of memory). When I started learning Z80 assembly for processor and coding it by hand since I didn’t have a PC. At one time I started to learn some assembly for the x86 because I was interested in making an OS and understanding how it works. I’ve used Perl over the years a few times to do more complicated things that I couldn’t do in Bash. I’ve wrote a packet sniffer for Diablo 2 in C++ and a few tiny Visual Basic applications (for generating large IP address lists) many years ago. I’ve created some rather large projects in mIRC scripting (AIM client). I feel that I’ve started to reach the limits of AutoIT when I have to rely on DLL calls and other executables to get the job done. I’d rather learn an actual programming language than continue to work with AutoIT. AutoIT still has a place for me when I need to make tiny program, automate a task or create a installer.

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