What SCO Wants, SCO Gets - (Linux Assault)

Forbes ^ | 06.18.03, 12:00 PM ET | Daniel Lyons,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[dark_lord]

Talk is cheap. Let 'em fight it out with the blue dinosaur.

[PatrioticAmerican]

The beauty of a software suit is that it is a physical thing: Either the code exists in the product or it doesn't.

We'll just have to see if SCO has rights to the code they claim Linux uses.

[Servant of the Nine]

Hard to root for Microsoft or IBM, but these people are techno-vultures, pure scum of the earth.

SO9

[ikka]

So basically SCO are a bunch of lawyers out to grab what they can. The only problem is that IBM has lawyers upon lawyers. SCO are fools to think they will prevail.

[HAL9000]

At least IBM invents and manufacturers some useful products. SCO is nothing more than a patent boutique now.

[lelio]

My favorite thing about this case is trying to make people sign an NDA to view some of their code. If its in the linux source then its publically available so just tell us where the damn code is.
And if you do, open up yours to an independant auditor so that we can see if there's any GPLed code in there.

[dennisw]

My favorite thing about this case is trying to make people sign an NDA to view some of their code.

One Swedish or German company was sent the code but without the NDA demand. Was a mistake of the lawyers. This company then posted at slashdot? (I think another forum) that they saw no code match. No stolen code .

[dwollmann]

What is a "crunchie in the Linux community"? An open source potato chip?

Was this article supposed to be a Microsoft zealot anti-Linux user hit-piece, or is this particular writer always rude and condescending.

[Still Thinking]

Ping!

[Still Thinking]

Why is it hard to root for IBM? They make a fine product, have excellent service, and run a damn fine place to work. What more could you ask?

[lelio]

crunchie in the Linux community
Don't you know? All linux people are European dope smokers according to a managing director at Continental Airlines.

quote: Having one vendor throat to choke [Microsoft] is helpful in crisis situations, Hanks said. An IT pro can't go to the CEO and say that a server is down, "and hopefully some guy in Amsterdam" will get to a fix when he gets back from the "dope house," he said.

[Servant of the Nine]

Why is it hard to root for IBM? They make a fine product, have excellent service, and run a damn fine place to work. What more could you ask?

A leftover from the 60s and early 70s. They were very heavy handed back then.

So9

[paulk]

Either the code exists in the product or it doesn't.

Not exactly - The likely explanation is that both code bodies grabbed it from third place - a version of the free berkly unix that is public domain. This is a M$ funded attempt to create FUD to hurt the Linux movment.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, we captured that in one of the threads!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't recall us being that heavy handed!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Threads of reference:

Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code?

Did SCO Violate the GPL?

There are other threads on the tech_index list but I think this have what you were referring to!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Did anybody read this one?

http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/06/17/cx_ld_0617linux.html

Linux is going to be the next OS/2. I don't think so.

I guess she hasn't seen Red Hat lately.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

"Hard to root for Microsoft or IBM, but these people are techno-vultures, pure scum of the earth."

Got Root? I guess not.