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SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE
Guy Smith writes "CRN reports that SCO will target SuSE and Red Hat with lawsuits after they are finished with IBM (providing that IBM allows them live). To quote Sco, "There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done." They seem bent on destroying the Open Source community and they deserve to hear the community's opinion on the matter."
...there won't be anything left. :)
"Hey, you! When I'm done kickin' these four bouncers' asses, you're next! You and your huge friends, there!"
SCO is a piece of garbage, hope they die painfully.
The Open Source infidels will cower at the will of SCO. Even now Linus Torvalds is jumping off a cliff and Alan Cox is shaving his beard before the might of Sad^Wour lawyers. There is only one UNIX system. All other UNIX systems do not exist, and have never existed. We have nothing against Linux users, just against the hegemony of greedy oi^Wcode-stealing developers. May Al^Hshcroft have mercy upon you ALL!
I'm going to need a scheduling app to keep track of who turn it is to turn our wrath on. Now, I've got Firebird(the DB) mail bombing scheduled for moday mornings, and a random senator on thursdays at noon. But this is 1:30PM wednesday and Sun is scheduled from 1 to 3 for a DNS, followed by a quick annonomous hate mail to Pat Robbertson at 3:30.
Does someone have an update for the hate list. Apparently I'm behind because I still have IBM scheduled for the first and second tuesday of each month.
Thanks ahead of time. Rant on.
Next thing you know SCO will be sueing Microsoft for having a command line interface in their OS...
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
McBride: Everyone just says we're a company going out of business, and throwing a Hail Mary pass, but once we get to court, those who say that will look as strange as the Iraqi information minister on TV saying the infidels are defeated and did not get into Baghdad.
Wow. That's like the Iraqi Information Minister saying that Rummy is going to look as strange as the Iraqi Information Minister when this is all over...or...something.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
For the first time I am actually hoping that a company will get crushed under the iron fist of IBM. Armeggedon cannot be too far off!
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
Remarkable. Most companies would have gone after SuSe to build precident, Red Hat to gain momentum, and then worked out some sort of deal with IBM. That, sadly, is the American way. These guys, though, just walked right up to the 800lb gorilla, punched it in the mouth, and tried to take its bananna.
This should be amusing.
Thomas Galvin
I am not going to bother refuting each sentence in here, but except for the part where the parent claims not to be a lawyer, everything in the parent is wrong.
"There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done."
Wow. Reminds me of every cardboard villain in every hokey 1980s action cartoon...
SCO: "You haven't seen the last of us, do-gooders!"
Thanks for the memories, SCO. We'll miss you after your well-deserved demise...
Only question being: how do you boycott a company
nobody was buying from anyway?
There's a Microsoft connection in here.
I can feel it. There's a definite disturbance in the Source...
Blockquoth the article: Jeez, does IBM have so many lawyers that they have to catapult them in?
"Understand you're having a little Jimmy Page trouble."
That's all well and good, but didn't several pretty significant people involved in Linux development already weigh in on this, and point out that there's no SCO code in their work? Linus included? SCO seems to be just spreading the FUD around. It's smarmy, it's sleazy, and I hope that IBM really whips their asses in court. In fact, if I were an IBM lawyer, I'd start opening countersuits. You know, the U.S. is the land where anyone can sue anyone, at any time, for anything. I'd be suing them for everything under the sun, no matter how thin the claim might be, and suck the life right out of them.
Think of it as an old Warner Bros cartoon:
(350-pound lawyer/gorilla): "Oh, you like lawsuits, eh? Well, let me indulge you... MUHAHAHAHA Let 'em have it, Ray!"
(98-pound milquetoast pipsqueak): "Um... What did you mean by that?" (looks up as a shadow expands around him, then forlornly says,) "Mother..."
BAM. An entire pallet of legal briefs drops out of the sky and lands on the pipsqueak with a little puff of dust. All that's left is his left hand, with a school ring on it, and his right hand, clutching a little briefcase. A groan is heard from under the pallet...
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
You are sadistic!
;-)
I like the way this man thinks!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Mod Ghods, please moderate this post up. It's not flamebait, it's insightful.
Santa Cruz really does suck. It's full of mean people who suck.
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
QUICK mod parent down before billy boy reads this....
"The one thing I could never stand about Santa Cruz all the Goddammned bloodsuckers!"
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
You messed up. On the first three lines it should read: "... speak up, because I was too busy running 'emerge -u world' to notice."
Lawyers
Are you paranoid if you know that they just want to know everything you say and do?
"There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done."
I think I know where the the Iraqi Information Minister is now working.
:)(smile)
2000lb man??
hehe..maybe he metaphored his way to the top! Hmm...maybe I can make it too since the early dog gets the oats!
FUNK!
SCO appears to be trying to change their primary source of revenue to be that which they get from lawsuits rather than actually selling services like they used to be doing. I don't know how viable of a business strategy this is
the RIAA/music labels have already adapted their business strategy to this concept, and it seems to work well for them. hey, if they can squeeze $100 trillion out of those college students (ha!) they don't need to sell any CDs for a looong time.
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I wrote them a few months ago when this all started, asking them for specific examples and they don't have any, because there are none.
It's a slap-suit, and I hope IBM bitch-slaps them back all the way to bearskins and stone knives (now let's see who get's the reference to bearskins and stone knives).
they are using Rumsfeldian tactics and are now in the "shock and awe" part of the campaign.
A radio maverick jumps to internet only. The Future of Rock n Roll
I don't know how viable of a business strategy this is, but even if they were to successfully sue every linux company into bankruptcy (hypothetically) they would eventually run out of people to sue and go bankrupt themselves. It's like a virus that feeds on other living cells until it has no more hosts. Once it runs out of hosts, it must itself die.
:)
Oh lordy. If suing Linux vendors is their new business plan... okay. Makes sense. Because, as we know, packaging and selling Linux distributions is such a profitable business that SCO is bound to cash in big time with this strategy.
*snicker*
4. Profit!
If L is the installed base of Linux, then dL/dt is the net rate of adoption. and if you were to decelerate the adoption, then that would be a negative value of d2L/dt2. But he said de-accelerate which would be a negative value of d3L/dt3, but a positive va....ok I'll go back to sitting in the corner and muttering to myself..
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
To paint the picture of just one of them: arms and legs wrapped around his briefcase, white-knuckled, bug-eyed from terror, suit flapping behind him, waiting for the meaty thud.
That cartoonist R. Crumb could really do it justice.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
All adressed to "Mr Tux" ;-)
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For example, we could make autocon, autogen, automake, binutils, gcc, emacs/xemacs, KDE, Gnome, gdb, gnu tar, cpio, ghostscript, gzip, bzip2, and any other essential GNU tools refuse to compile or run on SCO. SCO would then have to go and spend all of their time patching everything to run on their dead platform. Just make certain that any new GNU software does not work with SCO.
That will get their attention.
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I have $1000 in my hand right here! And Bill Gates is waving goodbye from his helicopter! It's real! I also have a 50% larger penis now too! Thanks, Bill! What a pal!
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
What's IBM:s view one this whole mess? There must be some kind of official (or inofficial) remark or comment from them on this.
Are they playing this safe, or unleashing Utah-covering-hoards of lawyers on poor SCO?
I can't help but feel gleefully expectant of what will happen when IBM makes their move. It's a little like watching those MTV-crazys take a kick in the groin or going down a stairway in a shopping cart.
Isn't it great to finally have the big gorilla in the right corner!
Die dulci fruere. Have a nice day.
SCO - Stop Creating Open-source...
Dude, where's my karma...?Dude, where's my Karma?
SCO: Suing Competitors Operation
If there is one thing SCO is known for, its support for massively SMP machines. Why, I once saw this 1024 CPU behemoth... oh wait, that was IRIX on mips. Well, there was this screamer of a system with 64 CPU's that collectively managed a sustained flops somewhere in the trilli... oh wait. That was Solaris on SPARC. Well how about that 128 CPU monstrosity...ooh, nevermind. Tru64 on alpha.
[thumbs through unix reference for 'SCO']
Here it is. SCO Unix is known as "the lamest unix implementation on the lamest CPU family in the history of technology, several notches below Minix, which itself was an intentionally incomplete unix implementation meant to teach students OS theory".
There you have it.
since this McBride character is a SCO PR guy
SCO can't afford a PR guy. This is the CEO.
http://www.sco.com/company/execs/
They decided to sue Slashdot, instead. Can't win 'em all.
...is like going to war without France.
Yeah, flamebait. It's a joke kids.
But he said de-accelerate which would be a negative value of d3L/dt3, but a positive va....ok I'll go back to sitting in the corner and muttering to myself..
What a jerk...
--Joey
May I quote a stable space opera move Star Wars?
So, before you think that successfully suing Microsoft is proof against future alliance with Microsoft against Open Source, remember Yoda's words:
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.