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Published by C1ay 08-10-2007
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#1
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CraigD
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08-12-2007
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 The SCO-Linux contraversy in words and pictures Quote:
For those who don’t know what the big deal is, this wikipedia article provides some background. The wiki article, with it dispassionate tone, fails, I think, to note the reason so many people consider SCO such a devil: for many years, they’ve done no actual technical work, having devolved almost entirely into a business dedicated to making money through attempting to gain royalties and lawsuit damages from enterprises that are. An image popular in the 1990s of the once logo character of SCO, a high schoolish-looking devil, committing an aggressive and unnatural act with the Linux penguin, summed up the general sentiment – (rather hard to find) image here (cartoon indecency - not suitable for all viewers). Whether this is really the end of the road / beginning of the falling dominos for SCO/Tarantella, or precisely what this company was, is, and will be, is a question for someone with far more legal and business acumen than me. For me, the whole sorry spectacle just serves to reinforce my view of society as a collection of people including those who make things, those who make money from things, in which the intersection of these two subcollections is small. | |
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#2
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Buffy
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08-12-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses Apparently though, its going to cause problems for Sun, because they got SCO to agree to let them put some of the "SCO Code" in their open source OpenSolaris distribution, and now that agreement has been invalidated. While I'm sure Sun got some indemnification from SCO in their agreement, SCO no longer has deep pockets (unless MS bails them out yet again), and so its not likely that they'll see much relief. Time for Jon Schartz to go begging on hands an knees to Novell for mercy... IP wars create lots of losers and sometimes nothing but, Buffy |
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#3
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C1ay
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08-12-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses More on those dominos... Quote:
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#4
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C1ay
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08-12-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses and another slant: Quote:
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#5
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C1ay
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08-12-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses and don't forget the Redhat vs SCO suit: Quote:
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#6
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alexander
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08-13-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses Quote:
I may actually read through the court ruling, this is so hilarious! Good thing BSD got it's own license, imagine if they were still under the Unix copyright... Sun is good, i mean while OpenSolaris stinks, sun has finally realized that it should join the OpenSource world, and over the past year made some excellent moves, like OpenSourcing Java, and their new processor. I think its back on a good track, maybe... | |
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#7
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Buffy
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08-13-2007
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| Re: SCO Loses Quote:
SCO 'disappointed' as shares plunge 70 per cent | The Register Those who live by torts, Buffy | |
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