Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

SCO & Linux: If You Can't Beat 'Em

Posted by Hemos on from the join-'em... dept.

BugBBQ writes "The NetworkWorld Fusion News reports that SCO is going to jump on the bandwagon and produce its own Linux Distro. " The article also has some analysis of what the SCO folks could bring to the scene as well as what extras they have to add.

1 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. SCO - the Dan Quayle of OS vendors by Lucius+Lucanius · · Score: 5

    Newsflash:

    A vendor famous for its remarkably comical marketing dept, SCO shocked the entire unix world by jumping on the linux bandwagon after everyone else had, instead of standing alone and fighting it out as it generally does. "Our marketing dept. ran out of analogies and cliches," said a senior SCO executive on condition of anonymity. "So we jumped on the bandwagon to show we are not a flash in the pan".

    SCO's CEO had been quoted a few years ago in Byte magazine ridiculing open source development for linux, using the analogy of holding a cup under a waterfall and waiting for the water to flow.

    But having changed its mind, SCO outlined some of the features which would differentiate it from other distributions:

    * README files with a neverending flood of press releases announcing "industry partnerships" and "strategic alliances".

    * Industrial strength stick-to-it persistence. "Once we make a mistake, we repeat it until we get bored of it or people stop paying attention," said a SCO executive.

    * Clueless marketroids included free with each upgrade.

    * 20 year old icons, stored carefully in clingwrap in the secret SCO vault.

    * Open Source Litigation to harness free legal support for SCO's battles with Microsoft over Xenix (not included with distribution, but free if you buy a $5 "I love SCO" bumper sticker).