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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."
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.
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/ .
What is this SCO I keep hearing about?
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."
A new release of SCO Linux. I know Linux fans every where have been looking forward to this.
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)
"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...
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?"