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McNealy: "Don't touch" Linux without legal guarantees
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| 31 July 2003
| Dominic Tonner
Posted on 07/31/2003 1:47:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
07/31/2003 1:48:55 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(All we need from a Governor is a VETO PEN!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just to be safe, everyone should buy and install Microsoft Windows.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wooo, I'm scared. I'm shivering as I carry the RedHat 9.0 CD towards the CD drive, reboot, and type 'linux'. Will this mean my fortune is hostage to SCO?
Nah.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We offer indemnification, but many suppliers do not. I'd like to see these indemnification clauses from Microsoft and Sun. I searched all over Microsoft's web site, to no avail.
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posted on
07/31/2003 1:55:51 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sun, which sells the proprietary Solaris version of Unix,Yes, they do. It's very expensive, slower than Linux on the same exact machine, and more prone to seg faults because of memory leaks and stack over-runs.
But I do have to admit that I use a Sparc5 running Solaris for an X-windows terminal for my linux server. I love the large monitor that draws about .78 KVA. And I'm too lazy to download and install Linux for a machine that only reboots once a month.
/john
To: Right Wing Professor
LOL! It'll be interesting to see who's secretly funding SCO in their stupid lawsuit...could it be Sun & Microsoft? I wouldn't be surprised....
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posted on
07/31/2003 1:57:44 PM PDT
by
egarvue
(Martin Sheen is not my president...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
An IBM win would not prevent SCO from pursuing individual claims, which, if successful, could cost far more in penalties than buying a SCO licence would The shakedown continues...
To: Incorrigible
Just to be safe, everyone should buy and install Microsoft Windows.You're..... just...... incorrigible....
I checked. Hell is not frozen over, pigs are not flying..... and I still don't do windoze.
/john
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, SMC makes good hardware but sometimes they do bone-headed things.
When Sun first introduced their Java programming language, a number of small coffee shops in California received "cease and desist" threatening them with legal action if they used the word "java" when referring to a cup of joe.
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posted on
07/31/2003 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Scott McMealymouth strikes again.
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posted on
07/31/2003 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
adam_az
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Bush2000
Sun bashing thread over here....(snicker)
/john
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
SUN's day has come and gone and all the lawyers in the world will not be able to push SUN back to its old heights...(excuse the slight puns)
McNealy hasn't come to grips yet with the Open Source phenomena and is the head of a company that IMHO is quickly becoming extinct.
Solaris is bloated, and not very well polished and to me seems much more difficult to administer than Linux...
An organization across the street from us still uses Solaris and their systems are absolute chaos...
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This coming from the same schmuck who 86'd Solaris x86 (until there was massive backlash from the Solaris-on-Intel community).
Sorry Scott, I'll take my chances with Linux. Solaris can take a long walk of a short pier.
-Jay
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:08:07 PM PDT
by
Jay D. Dyson
(Leftists are like any other lower life form...they devour their own when it suits their purpose.)
To: chilepepper
Sun Microsystems has always been proprietary-minded. Do you remember when OSF stood for "oppose Sun forever?" :)
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: Incorrigible
Just to be safe, everyone should buy and install Microsoft Windows. Safe from who? SCO? ...or the millions of anklebiters who can root Microsoft's crapware faster than Kobe can make a 19-year-old girl quack like a duck?
-Jay
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:10:46 PM PDT
by
Jay D. Dyson
(Leftists are like any other lower life form...they devour their own when it suits their purpose.)
To: JRandomFreeper
pigs are not flying.....Oh, yeah?
Walks like a flying pig, talks like a flying pig...
I've rebooted this flying pig twice today.
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:12:28 PM PDT
by
LTCJ
(Oink)
To: Right Wing Professor
Will this mean my fortune is hostage to SCO? You know, I remember when SCO was a "real" software company... And they had a really great product! SCO Xenix would run on a 286, and later a 386 intel platform. It was great business server software for companies who didn't have the money or need to put a PC on every desktop: When dumb terminals were just fine. One of the best platforms I ever worked on was a Mitsubishi MP-386 (16MHz 80386) with 8MB RAM and a 65MB hard drive! I know of at least 15 businesses here in the KC area that used to run on them. They were built like tanks and ran forever (even thought those hard drives, Mitsubishi MR-535s ran awfully hot... I wonder how many I installed? 977 cyls, 5 heads, 26 sectors... I don't think I've worked on one of those in at least 10 years! lol). No, SCO was once a good company. Now it's nothing more than a reason for suing other companies. Mark
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:18:02 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(I didn't claw my way to the top of the foodchain for a salad!)
To: Jay D. Dyson
Just to be safe, everyone should buy and install Microsoft Windows.or the millions of anklebiters who can root Microsoft's crapware faster than
The view of those on the 'software end' of the biz who NEVER blame their hardware OR their third party drivers ...
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:22:45 PM PDT
by
_Jim
(First INDICT the ham sandwhich ... the next step is to CONVICT it ...)
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