Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the standardizing-on-no-standards dept.
Corrado writes "According to this article over at Linux Box SuSE Is "Reevaulating Our Relationship" with SCO Group. There is also a reference to this article in wired about OSS developers rallying behind IBM. The best line of the article is "Eric Raymond called SCO's move 'deeply stupid...'""
SCO v. IBM...it's not gonna happen.
by
MsGeek
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· Score: 4, Funny
Fearless prediction: SCO's lawsuit isn't going to get a chance to happen. IBM buys SCO. End of lawsuit, end of story. I think this is the outcome the tattered remnants of SCO wanted in the first place.
-- Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Re: Which would be better...
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Black+Parrot
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· Score: 2, Funny
>... for SuSE to drop out or for the other participants to kick SCO-Caldera out? Could the members even boot another out of the consortium?
Yep, they could all quit and then start a new consortium without inviting SCO to join.
SCO would undoubtedly sue them though, claiming that it was impossible for a consortium to work without stealing something from SCO.
Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap copy of Windows??
Last one out, turn off the lights!
Re:Which would be better...
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sweetooth
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· Score: 5, Funny
I've got it....
ReUnited Linux!
Oh dear.... did I actually just post that?
Re:SuSE *IS* United Linux
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Anonymous Coward
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Ah, but United Linux is much more than just Suse 8.1. No one part of United Linux is greater than any other part. Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux have all combined into one Linux distro.
Its kind of like Voltron for crap.
Re:SuSE *IS* United Linux
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Anonymous Coward
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A big well known network gear manufacturer has decided to rename itself 'CI'.
Its spokesman stated : 'With those #@$à3 guys there over at SCO, we didn't wanted anymore to have this acronym inside our name, so we just removed it'
-- #include "coucou.h"
Linux is dying...
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Anonymous Coward
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...as independent reports confirm. So before you're forced to buy Windows and go to the Dark Side, come on over to the BSD. It's like the Other Light Side Of The Force.
FreeBSD is an excellent choice of operating system. We're happy to share it with any poor Linux refugees such as yourself. I think you've all suffered enough.
(With only a hint of sarcasm.:)
Re:Which would be better...
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kfg
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· Score: 3, Funny
Or how about "The Linux Confederacy"?
KFG
Re:SuSE *IS* United Linux
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Angry+White+Guy
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· Score: 5, Funny
And Calderra/SCO will form the asshole.
-- You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
SCOldera is starting to look a lot like that other lawfirm passing for a tech company. They really should change their company motto to
"SCOldera - You Innovate, We Litigate"
With the current legal system, those with the money always win. Companies like SuSE cannot possibly sustain legal action. So in a way it's good they picked a fight with IBM - at least they've got lawyers to spare.
It'll be interesting to see how SCOldera either tries to backpedal or dies a horrible flaming death. I vote for option 2;)
Cue up the banjoes, boys. "The Beverly Hillbillies", if ya please.
o/~ Ooooooo...lemme tell a story 'bout a group called SCO, they was havin' them some difficulty rakin' in the dough. They was lookin' at th'marketplace, decidin' what to do when they saw this li'l penguin an they figgered they would sue....
Big Blue that is. IBM. Deeeep pockets. Moola moooola....
So they filed them a lawsuit a couple billion deep allegin' Blue had fed that bird through source code feature creep. Blue an' Penguin shook their heads, an' marvelled at this feat, sayin' "Not our faults you silly gits ain't able to compete..."
Squeezed by th'market. Billy Gates on one side, Torvaldes on t'other....squisha squish, yeah.
o/~
-- Horse_Pheathers
Please mod parent up...
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Anonymous Coward
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...as insightful. It is not funny, it is not informative, it is *the truth*.
FreeBSD is a fine operating system that I personally think is a better "linux" (note lower case) that Linux(TM) itself (note upper case).
Entwick?
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Anonymous Coward
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Is that what happens when a bunch of Ents get together to program?..Christ, I could imagine the design phase. Three weeks of flowcharts to decide on how best to print "Hello World"..
Re:Which would be better...
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einhverfr
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· Score: 2, Funny
Well, 7-Up calls themselves the un-cola.
SCO claims sole ownership of the UNIX trademark
Leaving aside for a moment the fact that the UNIX trademark is owned by the Open Group and that what SCO owns is the source code of the original Linux....
Are you suggesting that they call it UNSCO?
I have a better idea-- UNSCO Megaconglomerate, or UNSCOM, and then they can ask the NSA to join with their SE-Linux;-)
OK, so that was a really bad joke with war looming with Iraq and all, but it had to be said:-P
Dr. Evil: Okay everybody leave! Except for you SUSE, cept for you Number 2 turbolinux, and you Conectiva S.A. cept for you Goldmember, cept for you guy back there, cept for you guy pretending he's working on the computer but really not... *SCO looks at Dr. Evil* Dr. Evil: Yeah! Tight moment right here! Goldmember: HaHa! Little guy can't take a hint!
The GPL was the license that gave them the right to distribute Linux and all the other GPL code in their distribution. So yes, they are now subject to the terms of the GPL.
Aha! Now I see it. SCO's in the tank but attacks IBM which has deep pockets, and many lawyers, and is not afraid of a fight.
What company has loads of cash, doesn't like IBM, and could easily buy off the holders of a fading company like SCO on the condition they make it appear that their demise was caused by the GPL? Which company would profit the most by such publicity?
Just kidding.:) Well, I think I'm just kidding.
News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge!
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Newer+Guy
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In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix.
"The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century" Chairman David Boies said today.
"We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and software Intellectual property"
Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue Microsoft for the use of the name "windows".
and it's use for networking.
"I came up with the idea of windows networking
30 years ago" Boies said. "When I was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In other words, Windows networking"
Slashdot Mirror
SUSE spokesman Bruce Campbell was quoted as saying... "Look man, I dont even know these assholes!"
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
SCO lets loose with one of the silent-but-deadly variety, and everybody is still in the room?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Run like your thong is on fire....
I would not let my dog be associated with the three lettter acronym SCO.
Got Code?
Twenty years ago, I never would have believed that I'd be rooting for IBM's lawyers today.
Fearless prediction: SCO's lawsuit isn't going to get a chance to happen. IBM buys SCO. End of lawsuit, end of story. I think this is the outcome the tattered remnants of SCO wanted in the first place.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
>
Yep, they could all quit and then start a new consortium without inviting SCO to join.
SCO would undoubtedly sue them though, claiming that it was impossible for a consortium to work without stealing something from SCO.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap copy of Windows??
Last one out, turn off the lights!
I've got it....
ReUnited Linux!
Oh dear.... did I actually just post that?
Ah, but United Linux is much more than just Suse 8.1. No one part of United Linux is greater than any other part. Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux have all combined into one Linux distro.
Its kind of like Voltron for crap.
I'll form the head!
A big well known network gear manufacturer has decided to rename itself 'CI'.
Its spokesman stated : 'With those #@$à3 guys there over at SCO, we didn't wanted anymore to have this acronym inside our name, so we just removed it'
#include "coucou.h"
...as independent reports confirm. So before you're forced to buy Windows and go to the Dark Side, come on over to the BSD. It's like the Other Light Side Of The Force.
:)
FreeBSD is an excellent choice of operating system. We're happy to share it with any poor Linux refugees such as yourself. I think you've all suffered enough.
(With only a hint of sarcasm.
Or how about "The Linux Confederacy"?
KFG
And Calderra/SCO will form the asshole.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
SCOldera is starting to look a lot like that other lawfirm passing for a tech company. They really should change their company motto to
;)
"SCOldera - You Innovate, We Litigate"
With the current legal system, those with the money always win. Companies like SuSE cannot possibly sustain legal action. So in a way it's good they picked a fight with IBM - at least they've got lawyers to spare.
It'll be interesting to see how SCOldera either tries to backpedal or dies a horrible flaming death. I vote for option 2
-- Gxis! Ed.
Cue up the banjoes, boys. "The Beverly Hillbillies", if ya please.
o/~ Ooooooo...lemme tell a story 'bout a group called SCO,
they was havin' them some difficulty rakin' in the dough.
They was lookin' at th'marketplace, decidin' what to do
when they saw this li'l penguin an they figgered they would sue....
Big Blue that is. IBM. Deeeep pockets. Moola moooola....
So they filed them a lawsuit a couple billion deep
allegin' Blue had fed that bird through source code feature creep.
Blue an' Penguin shook their heads, an' marvelled at this feat,
sayin' "Not our faults you silly gits ain't able to compete..."
Squeezed by th'market. Billy Gates on one side, Torvaldes on t'other....squisha squish, yeah.
o/~
-- Horse_Pheathers
...as insightful.
It is not funny, it is not informative, it is *the truth*.
FreeBSD is a fine operating system that I personally think is a better "linux" (note lower case) that Linux(TM) itself (note upper case).
Is that what happens when a bunch of Ents get together to program? ..Christ, I could imagine the design phase. Three weeks of flowcharts to decide on how best to print "Hello World"..
Well, 7-Up calls themselves the un-cola.
;-)
:-P
SCO claims sole ownership of the UNIX trademark
Leaving aside for a moment the fact that the UNIX trademark is owned by the Open Group and that what SCO owns is the source code of the original Linux....
Are you suggesting that they call it UNSCO?
I have a better idea-- UNSCO Megaconglomerate, or UNSCOM, and then they can ask the NSA to join with their SE-Linux
OK, so that was a really bad joke with war looming with Iraq and all, but it had to be said
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
United Linux should have gone Dr. Evil on SCO.
Dr. Evil: Okay everybody leave! Except for you SUSE, cept for you Number 2 turbolinux, and you Conectiva S.A. cept for you Goldmember, cept for you guy back there, cept for you guy pretending he's working on the computer but really not...
*SCO looks at Dr. Evil*
Dr. Evil: Yeah! Tight moment right here!
Goldmember: HaHa! Little guy can't take a hint!
They distributed the code.
The GPL was the license that gave them the right to distribute Linux and all the other GPL code in their distribution. So yes, they are now subject to the terms of the GPL.
Aha! Now I see it. SCO's in the tank but attacks IBM which has deep pockets, and many lawyers, and is not afraid of a fight.
What company has loads of cash, doesn't like IBM, and could easily buy off the holders of a fading company like SCO on the condition they make it appear that their demise was caused by the GPL? Which company would profit the most by such publicity?
Just kidding. :) Well, I think I'm just kidding.
In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix. "The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century" Chairman David Boies said today. "We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and software Intellectual property" Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue Microsoft for the use of the name "windows". and it's use for networking. "I came up with the idea of windows networking 30 years ago" Boies said. "When I was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In other words, Windows networking"
I love it when people get quoted not using their 'mass media language' :).
Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).
You've never been divorced, have you?
I'm a Slashdot poster!! I'll probably never have that problem!
Wow! You are so cool. I only hope, that someday, I could be cool enough to run gentoo.
Now, go play quietly with your Gentoo, the adults are talking.