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  • #1

    SCO providing laughs again...

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031


    Attacking the GPL itself. This should be pretty entertaining. SCO has got to be the controlled by a 12 year old or something. "Mommy, nobody is buying my lemonaide." "Ok, just claim that you made the first lemonaide and that anyone else who makes it, must pay you first." "What if that doesn't work?" "Then just tell them that they can't have any lemonaide because you made it first and there can be only one."

    This is getting pretty ridiculous.

    Leech
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  • #2
    They are getting desperate
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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    • #3
      I'm more likely to assume the Inquirer is the one that is bonkers.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Brian R.
        I'm more likely to assume the Inquirer is the one that is bonkers.
        Have you been following the SCO thing at all?
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        • #5
          I'm saving up so that I can pay my $699 license fee

          Oh and the analogy really is that you'd claim you own the rights to making sugar which helped make lemonade so popular
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          • #6
            *feels dumb*
            who is SCO?

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            • #7
              They distribute SCO Unix and they are claiming that IBM took code from their version of Unix and put it into Linux. They originally sued IBM for $1 billion in damages, but when IBM denied their accusations and the Linux community jumped on them, they raised the stakes to $3 billion.

              They also used to distribute SCO Linux, so there is an argument that they made all code they *may* own as open source anyways. I guess this is a ploy to go against that.

              Oh, and their group of high priced lawyers is headed by the guy who prosecuted Microsoft.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by TnT
                I'm saving up so that I can pay my $699 license fee

                Oh and the analogy really is that you'd claim you own the rights to making sugar which helped make lemonade so popular
                I was comparing it to them saying that the GPL is flawed because they claim that there can be only one copy of ANYTHING. But as far as the SCO vs. Linux, that would be the proper analogy.

                who is SCO?
                SCO are currently the owners of the license of Unix, are based in Lindon, UT (which isn't too far from where I live , so maybe I should pay them a visit....) They are also what used to be Caldera Linux. They are sueing IBM claiming that IBM stole some of their Intellectual Property of Unix and put it into Linux. But SCO has not come forward with any of the so called stolen code.

                On the other hand, IBM is counter-sueing SCO and they ARE listing all the IP that was stolen by them.

                Leech
                Wah! Wah!

                In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                • #9
                  Here, reading the headlines alone reveals how much crack SCO is smoking:
                  Search Slashdot
                  http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=&op=stories&author=&tid=88&section=&sort=1
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                  • #10
                    No, I haven't followed any problems with SCO. I just flinch when I see an article in that mag.

                    Actually, up until I read this thread, I thought SCO was a reputable company.
                    Last edited by Brian R.; 16 August 2003, 20:38.

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                    • #11
                      Yeah, prior to this a lot of people (me to) thought the were reputable.... But now their name is Mud, I think their only *marginal* hope for survival is to win the lawsuit or hope someone buys them out. There has been a lot of conjecture that the whole thing was to get IBM to buy them out anyway. But I think IBM is going to trash them(legally) and let them die

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                      • #12
                        It's getting funnier with every day. They showed an example on the SCO Forum, that should proof, that many lines of code are taken from Unix to Linux.



                        They proof this with a comment?? The same comment can be found in the stone-age-old bsd2.11 sourcecode http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/PDP...ys/subr_rmap.c



                        Rakido
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                        • #13
                          ROTFLMAO
                          If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                          Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                          • #14
                            link to the article containing above pic
                            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                            Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Brian R.
                              Actually, up until I read this thread, I thought SCO was a reputable company.
                              Well they where and went out busniess and then Claderia renamed themselfs as SCO...which was know as Santa Cruz Orgination or something....
                              Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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