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SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the help-lug-help-us dept.

althalus writes "PLUG, the Provo Linux Users Group, of Utah recently requested representatives from SCO to answer the questions of the local *nix users regarding their lawsuit. Since this topic has been the point of a bit of discussion here on slashdot ( 1, 2, 3, 4) We figured it might be nice to get some of the questions from here. SCO has agreed to allow us to submit a list of questions ahead of time, and we will contain some of the highest moderated slashdot questions. SCO has warned us, that since this is an active lawsuit, there are some questions that obviously cannot be answered at this time, but overall, feel free to ask. Notes/Answers will be submitted to slashdot afterwards." Think of this as a third party Ask SCO almost anything.

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  1. Dear SCO, by Sevn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did you help Al Gore create the internet?

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  2. Lawyers by guacamolefoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When you hired your lawyers, did you go for:

    1. Really dumb ones that simply don't know any better, or

    2. Ones that can keep a straight face when drafting the complaint that was filed, or

    3. Ones that are really desperate for the money, so that even though they might face Rule 7 sanctions, they were still willing to go ahead with the complaint anyway

    Inquiring minds want to know!

    GF.

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  3. Re:Well... by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SCO doesn't sell UNIX per se. They sell SCO UNIX, UNIXWare and whatever the hell they call their Linux distro this week.

    SCO UNIX is dead, dead, dead. UNIXWare is in maintaince mode and has pretty much been that way since '95 when SCO bought it from Novell. Exactly what useful ideas are in there that didn't get cloned years ago?

    As for borrowing from NT, unfortunatly yes. The design philosophy behind KDE seems to be "We like Windows, if it just didn't suck. Oh, and we LOVE Qt more than Free Software." and GNOME seems to be all about reimplementing all of the core Microsoft technologies except putting more themes and chrome in. Of course the desktop is where we are always behind, wonder why..... Couldn'e be chasing taillights and reinventing crappy tech poorly..... nah.

    But RMS won't die happy until everyone is using GNU/Linux, GNU/BSD or GNU/HURD. Ok, honestly everyone has to use GNU/HURD and spend 90% of their time in Emacs. Make that GNU-Emacs, the heretics using XEmacs must all die. :)

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