Hawk Software

First, for the many users of the HawkNL 1.x series, after over seven years of inactivity I am working on a new 1.7 beta update which will fix some recently discovered endian and 64-bit OS issues.  The update will also contain an update to HawkThreads which I created in 2006 but never released.

It is interesting that I had already discovered a way to avoid the 64-bit issues in my preliminary work on HawkFloat, so that part is easy.  I think it is also finally time to switch over to the GPL 3.o, and all my new projects will use this almost 5-year old license (how time flies!).

Now to HawkNL 2.0:

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After a long hiatus, work has begun again on my HawkVoice library, and there will be a change in focus and direction. But before explaining the changes, I need to quickly review how HawkVoice began in the first place, because I never planned to become an ‘expert’ in open source speech compression.  It began all about networking with HawkNL. Read the rest of this entry »

SCO has been saying for years that they wanted to plead their case before a jury, and today the jury in the SCO versus Novell trial affirmed that SCO never acquired the UNIX copyrights from Novell.  This eliminates most of SCO’s lawsuit against IBM.  For more details I direct you to Groklaw, the best resource for the SCO lawsuits and other free and open source software legal news.

Today is the official launch of Windows 7 and the media coverage is surprisingly low key.  From all the positive reviews it sounds like Windows 7 will do well.  Microsoft seems to have removed or toned down the most annoying features of Vista; perhaps many businesses will finally take the plunge and upgrade from XP!  But not me!  I am going to go the Ubuntu Linux route. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that Darl McBride, the infamous CEO of The SCO Group, Incorporated, has been unceremoniously let go.  Groklaw broke the news a few days ago, and I am sure many Linux users breathed an ever so slight sigh of relief. No, this does not end the ridiculous lawsuits, but it cannot hurt for SCO to lose its zealous leader. Read the rest of this entry »