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...'""
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Re:SCO v. IBM...it's not gonna happen.
by
Vicegrip
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I'd prefer they buy Trolltech and get them the hell out of Canopy group. Then, maybe buy SCO after its stock price falls through the floor to like.02 after investors realize that any hope the company ever had of turning a profit has disapeared in a cloud of angry open-source developers.
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Im sorry but they were never anything but 'were not RedHat', hell I am suprised Suse did not pull out earlier..
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SCO has a case and they should have done...
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DaphunK
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SCO has a very good case and they should have the right to enforce the contracts that were under their umbrella of responisibility. IBM does not own the original rights to the source that they built AIX around. Yes, they recently re-wrote most of the inefficent code that they were more or less "renting", but contracts are contracts. If you can't follow the rules of the contract, then you deserve everything you have coming to you. This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the LINUX/Open Source community. This has to do with basic business practices. IBM violated the terms of the contract and YES they were measures to get them to settle the matter peacefully. When IBM more or less said SCREW YOU, then yes, SCO was left to either drop the issue or take it a step further. I believe SCO is doing the right thing here. I don't agree with the dollar amount, but they do have a very valid legal case. The courts will decide what is right and wrong. Open source is open souce. Source code that was developed for profit and IP before the GPL and other free movements don't automatically become open source because LINUX is hangin around out there promoting its practices. I love LINUX and UNIX. UNIX is UNIX and LINUX is LINUX/UNIX. LINUX was built around the ideals of UNIX and yes IBM did release, either knowingly or not, SYS V code into the OSS realm without permission. I wish everyone would open their eyes in the business world and realize that just because you don't understand that contracts are binding, to stop kicking around that which you know very little about.
*steps off soapbox* Time to go home little kiddies.
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...that *ESR* called someone "deeply stupid"...
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
I'd prefer they buy Trolltech and get them the hell out of Canopy group. Then, maybe buy SCO after its stock price falls through the floor to like .02 after investors realize that any hope the company ever had of turning a profit has disapeared in a cloud of angry open-source developers.
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
Im sorry but they were never anything but 'were not RedHat', hell I am suprised Suse did not pull out earlier..
SCO has a very good case and they should have the right to enforce the contracts that were under their umbrella of responisibility. IBM does not own the original rights to the source that they built AIX around. Yes, they recently re-wrote most of the inefficent code that they were more or less "renting", but contracts are contracts. If you can't follow the rules of the contract, then you deserve everything you have coming to you. This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the LINUX/Open Source community. This has to do with basic business practices. IBM violated the terms of the contract and YES they were measures to get them to settle the matter peacefully. When IBM more or less said SCREW YOU, then yes, SCO was left to either drop the issue or take it a step further. I believe SCO is doing the right thing here. I don't agree with the dollar amount, but they do have a very valid legal case. The courts will decide what is right and wrong. Open source is open souce. Source code that was developed for profit and IP before the GPL and other free movements don't automatically become open source because LINUX is hangin around out there promoting its practices. I love LINUX and UNIX. UNIX is UNIX and LINUX is LINUX/UNIX. LINUX was built around the ideals of UNIX and yes IBM did release, either knowingly or not, SYS V code into the OSS realm without permission. I wish everyone would open their eyes in the business world and realize that just because you don't understand that contracts are binding, to stop kicking around that which you know very little about. *steps off soapbox* Time to go home little kiddies.
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