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SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2
GreyPoopon writes "Computerworld has an article referring to SCO's announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote: "With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2 market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy. Newsfactor has a better article."
what's this Itanium I keep hearing about?
Shift happens. Fire it up.
RMS's favorite distribution is now available.
Isn't there some way to tell them, fuck you, stay away from our OS? Stupid double-edged sword of open source...
Does this mean they're going to have to sue themselves?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Fund the death of Linux!
If Baghdad Bob hanged himself the other day, he obviously made it to heaven, and God must have left the Reality Machine unattended.
Q: What's the difference between SCO and a carp ?
A: One is a worthless scum-sucking bottom dweller, the other is a fish...
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
SCO's suit, which requests "not less than $1 billion" for damages, has been a source of great controversy in the Linux community.
No controversy on Slashdot certainly.
Nosirree Bob.
SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, has sued itself for more than $1 billion, alleging that SCO misappropriated their own Unix technology and built it into Linux.
The suit, filed Thursday afternoon in the 3rd District Court of Salt Lake County in Utah, alleges misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of contract and tortious interference with SCO's business, the Lindon, Utah-based company said. SCO also sent a letter to itself on Thursday demanding that if it doesn't meet various demands, SCO will revoke it's own license to ship its version of Unix, in 100 days.
"We are alleging we have contaminated our UnitedLinux work with inappropriate knowledge from Unix," said Chris Sonfag, senior vice president of operating systems at SCO and head of the company's SCO source effort to make more money from its intellectual property.
Analysts saw the move as a desperate one for SCO, a company that hasn't been profitable in its current incarnation.
"It's a fairly end-of-life move for the stockholders and managers of that company," said Jonthan Unice, an Illuminato analyst. "I mean, hell, they've already gone ahead and filed suit against IBM - but, this is really over the top."
I don't think there's any controversy at all on slashdot about SCO; there appears to be a strong consensus that they suck.
What a hoot!
It's ironic that SCO is suing IBM over code in the Linux kernel.. but they're making profits off of Linux.
You assume they'll actually sell enough of this distro to make a profit.
Trolling is a art,
Probably something that is illegal in 49 states, Nevada the exception.
SCO to Hell
I mean, to buy those CPUs retail would cost about $2000, so this is a really good deal.
... what's that? this is JUST for the OS? Bugger off. That's insane.)
(Wait
What's this? SCO still makes a product? I thought they got out of that business.
but RedHat, Debian, SuSE and even SGI got there first.
More like leading supplier of hot air and frivolous lawsuits.
utter rubbish
"Okay, if I'm dying, what the fuck do you call SCO on Itanium?" - BSD
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Why would I want anything Linux? It is to Unix what a bicycle is to a luxury car. SCO will back me up on that. Wait...
ScoLinux was going to include some old UNIX tech to support 16Gb of RAM until ScoSource threatened to sue them for $1Bn.
SCO's CEO was quoted as saying, "We're not in any danger of going out of business, we just want to stop these thieving bastards from taking our precious thirty-year old source code, dusting it off, polishing it up, refactoring it - actually, just writing new code from scratch, but 'Linux' sounds sort of like 'UNIX', so it *must* be descended from ScoSource IP - and selling it as their own."
He then removed his rose-colored glasses, glanced at a recent SCO SEC filing, and muttered, "Oh, shit."
Arr! The laws of physics be a harsh mistress!
PR News Release
SomeHickTown, Utah. (Apr 16, 2003)
The SCO Group has released a Linux server operating system for the 64-bit Intel Itanium processor, the company announced Wednesday. A SCO Product Manager was quoted as saying "As our main revenue stream is based on frivolous lawsuits we thought we'd expand further by deploying a Linux distribution based on a failing server technology - how could consumers not be tempted by this marriage made in hell?"
"SCO's future on Itanium is immense, burning brightly like a flaming retard. SCO on Itanium supports more than 4GB of RAM. Do not believe the Debian infidels when they say otherwise! We are also the cheapest Linux distribution in the world! Anything you are told by the scheming harbingers of doom is a lie."
I could go on all day with this thread.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
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SCO= Slow CEOs OnBoard
Don't Tread on OpenSource
That's "late" as in "the late Arthur Dent".
You'll have to excuse Tom, he hasn't had his circus peanuts today, so he's really grouchy. I get that way when I'm jonsing for them too. But what's with the "other 3 people" comment? Tom and I like them, and I was just on the phone with Cindy talking about this, since they are her favorite too. Mary just sent me her daily "Circus Peanut" peom, and then John...wait, I haven't heard from John in two days..oh no, John's dead. Not John, he was the kindest guy I know, as long as he had those circus peanuts. I have to go now. I have to email Mary about this.