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Most people that are in the Linux community know about Microsoft’s president, Steve Ballmer, making statements that Linux violates several Microsoft IPs and Copyrights. There have even been some companies that have made deals with Microsoft to protect their customers from this.

I was reading PC World today and there was a little blurb about this in there. Nothing special really, just mentioning that Microsoft’s claim and a statement from an open source lawyer that they haven’t provided any proof except to those who made deals. They also give past examples of SCO suing IBM for something similar.

I’m wondering how this will affect the outlook of Linux. PC Magazine isn’t your small publication by any means, so a lot of people will read it. They tease you with some info on both sides and do a decent job of staying neutral throughout as well. While this will make some people look into this more and maybe even find a reason to use Linux along the way, this may also give fuel to the Microsoft crowd.

I’ve pretty much stopped caring about this issue until Microsoft comes with some sort of proof. In fact, the only reason I’ve thought about this in quite some time was because of this little blurb in a magazine I happen to read.

Interesting.

I found a neat intro on the net for gddrescue. For those who don’t know, which is probably most of you, gddrescue is a Debian package that lets you recover data from a damaged hard drive. I’ve never used it and haven’t had to recover data since I started using Linux tools to fix computers so I can’t speak for it, but it’s probably a good free option. I double checked on the System Recovery CD website, and it’s not included so you’ll have to add it yourself if you want it on a all-in-one cd.