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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.
A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
"The company's base edition of Linux Server 4.0 software is licensed to accommodate up to 4 Itanium 2 processors."
OK, so it's good for a to 4-way system before you have to pay more money. But later...
"It supports 4GB of RAM..."
If you're paying out for a 4-way Itanium 2, wouldn't you (typically) want to handle more than 4GB RAM? I imagine there are applications that benefit from a 64-bit CPU but don't use much RAM, but I thought the core market was people using large amounts of data?
Or does it support more RAM and this article's just not great?
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."
More information on SCO, it's lawsuit, the many boycotts against it and why they aren't exactly the ideal company can be found here.
"I filter at +6, and have yet to miss out on an important comment." (#822545)
I don't think there's any controversy at all on slashdot about SCO; there appears to be a strong consensus that they suck.
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,
Not sure if it'd be worth the bother... SCO's "enhancements" (if you can call them that) generally suck anyway. I'd rather just see a parody distro of SCO than anything attempting to be usefull...
Besides, RedHat, Gentoo, and SuSE are way better (as well as being alot nicer) Although the whole RedHat/Pink Tie thing is a bit annoying...
Hopefully SCO will just die soon.
Rushfan
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
See this is all part of the strategy... sue IBM for infringing on your IP, so everyone will buy your product so that they won't be liable.
But wait, release a GPL product with your IP embedded in it... doesn't that mean that your IP is now GPL?
Boy am I confused, so SCO is suing IBM for writing software that they are now selling for themselves and benifiting from.
Where can I buy tickets to the court case? I can't wait for this!
"The similarities of sysadmins and drug dealers: both measure stuff in K's, and both have users."
What's this? SCO still makes a product? I thought they got out of that business.
I wish there was some there was some way that I could be outside playing basketball, in the rain, and not get wet.
Reality: You can download the same software for free, but we know that PHBs don't trust FREE software
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Reality:Even if UnitedLinux kicks us out of their group, we can still copy their stuff, after all, it is open-source
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Reality: No, we don't have any 64-bit apps for you to run, but this just sounds way cool!
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Reality: webmin.
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Reality: Which you won't use, or you'd already be running a cluster, which you can download for free here
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Reality: We want to lock you into a long-term support contract with us, even though we didn't create the thing.
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)
It would be interesting to have GNU or FSF buy a copy and investigate it to see if there are any GPL violations! What might they find?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
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...
so much for their 64-bit OS.
Patents aren't bad. Neither are trade secrets. There are 2 issues that most OSS developers take w/ SCO's lawsuit vs. IBM.
1.) SCO claimed in their brief that Linux is an immature operating system, that could only have gained dominance in the marketplace by IBM stealing IP from SCO and putting it into Linux (which is just patently false... pun intended); and
2.) SCO claimed in their brief that OSS developers don't have the intellectual wherewithal to have developed similar features found in SCO's UNIX on their own, short of IBM lifting SCO's IP and showing the OSS developers how to do it, which is also patently false.
Additionally, proving that SCO IP was somehow misappropriate is going to be just short of completely impossible, again making their lawsuit vs. IBM appear more as a grab for either 1.) as much $$$ as a trial will award them, or 2.) a plea to be absorbed/taken over by a profitable company, such as IBM.
In this light, the OSS community doesn't necessarily take issue w/ IP per se, just SCO's flagrant remarks against OSS developers in their plea to become profitable or purchased through litigation.
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
They should not get advertisment from slashdot. Microsoft releases some cool products and features and yet they are barely mentioned at all here on slashdot unless its negative because the editors hate them. Same should apply with SCO.
Cmd Taco and Timothy. If your reading this please do not advertise for SCO. Screw them. Tell them to shove it up there ass unless its something really worthwile or negative.
http://saveie6.com/
SCO's Linux Server Base version is priced at $599. It comes with no technical support or any kind of warranty.
Can someone just make a copy of their Linux software and distribute it for free? Why are people going to buy from SCO directly?
Who CARES if sco wants to charge $999 for linux? IF they can pull that off, MORE POWER TO THEM.
Why is it everytime someone charges money for something everyone freaks out?
The whole point of this whole open source/free software is that, within certain licensing constraints, anyone is FREE TO DO what they want with the software, including make money.
Seriously.. I hate SCO as much as the next guy (if not more), but give it a rest.
How has sco harmed you by offering this package? Oh, they haven't?
Did SCO just release all of their intellectual property under the GPL?
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.