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OSI vs SCO
the jackol writes "As expected, the OSI's just given the SCO vs IBM case a bite with this position paper. "SCO has never owned the UNIX trademark. IBM neither requested nor required SCO's permission to call their AIX offering a Unix. That decision lies not with the accidental owner of the historical Bell Labs source code, but with the Open Group.""
OSI is ISO backwards. Conspiracy.
Someone actually used AIX?!
Could you please troll in an open format such as Ogg?
Real for Linux sucks balls.
OSI Papers notwithstanding, all it takes is a tipply judge to cause a lot of headaches for everyone from RedHat to Yellow Dog. In any case, Microsoft wins. Their line...go with the smart, non-litigated choice...Windows XP. Now with Software Assurance!
And if all else fails, there is always the HURD... :-) (seriously!)
I beg to differ as a corporate lawyer specialized in IP laws I think you mom sucks real hard.
now mr.trollboy go play somewhere else.
Heh, mine were:
...SCO made the "ancient Unix" Version 7 source code available for free[13], which rather disposes of the theory that the original Unix code had any residual IP value in the marketplace of today. They belatedly terminated this offering on May 19th 2003, apparently realizing how badly it damaged their trade-secret claims.
SCO's complaint is factually defective in that it implies claims about SCO's business and technical capabilities that are untrue. It is, indeed, very cleverly crafted to deceive a reader without intimate knowledge of the technology and history of Unix; it gives false impressions by both the suppression of relevant facts, the ambiguous suggestion of falsehoods, and in a few instances by outright lying.
Ouch. 'Dem are some strong words!
Their strength has been in franchise operations including McDonalds, Burger King, and Pizza Hut, which involve lots of parallel small deployments with no individual site requiring enterprise technology. [...] SCO's claim to own the scalability techniques certainly cannot be supported from the feature list of its own SCO OpenServer
So, SCO Unix is the equivalent of a McDonalds' hamburger? Mmmmm... tasty... Would you like a SCO media kit with that?
Examination of SCO's 10Ks reveals that, even were we to assume that every dime of their revenue came from the enterprise market, their 2002 share could not have exceeded 3.1% [5] This is at the level of statistical noise.
Bur-r-r-r-rned!!!
During the USL/Novell vs. BSD court case, it was determined that only three files out of eighteen thousand in the distribution were found to be the licit property of Novell and removed. I wonder how many will be found in Linux.
Uhh... can you say "too late now"?
I think I've had enough already.
Have EVDO, will travel.
in AIX:and in Linux:The names of the variables were changed, but that didn't fool my eagle's eye.
maybe they should have started with OSI so they could get their facts right!
Don't Tread on OpenSource
I agree with your paranoia comments. I'd mod me down if I could.
I'd still look for connections down the road. MS sure capitulated to SCO mighty fast. But, don't discount Gates' respect for Unix/Linux either.
But after doing a painfully difficult 1 minute search on Google, I'd say SCO is looking more and more like a Rambus. The lawyers are calling the shots. I see their gripes with MS.
I'll start working on an Illuminati and Free Masons angle. That will be much more diffiulct to call paranoia because we all know they run the world anyway.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
So we know (for a change) how the IP story ends :
...95141.3
But now I'm confused about how that story starts. Any clues?
As an attorney interested in legla matters related to the software industry, I am followwing this case closely as well, and my legal opinion is of the contrary. After careful ponderance of the evidence presented so far by both sides, it seems that the judge is leaning heavily in favor of granting all further rights to nVidia. This will leave the OSI in a lurch as it has pending preprocessed propietary patents in proper due to come up with SGI in 2004. This will leave the GNU scrambling to find new sources for OT... SCO had better purchase PanIP, a far more experienced enterprise class litigator, or shut up shop.
Did you just teleneted in as root??
:)
Its not only your OS that is outdated