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SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM

Posted by simoniker on from the friday-the-thirteenth-indeed dept.

bcisys writes "Reuters is reporting that SCO is planning to revoke IBM's license to Unix this Friday unless IBM settles SCO's claim that parts of its Unix code are being used in Linux. 'If we don't have a resolution by midnight on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a different place', SCO President and Chief Executive Darl McBride told Reuters News. 'We've basically mapped out what we will do. People will be running AIX without a valid license.'"

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  1. First post by decepetion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post license revoked

  2. Fuck them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    says this first post

  3. yay. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yay.

  4. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    almost-maybe post 10-20....probly before 30 though. I hope. Please be before 30!

  5. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My first chance at a first post.

    So, what are the gonna do to those running without a valid license? Sue every company running AIX?

  6. Re:DO NOT by 56ker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is sounding like a cartoon. Makes me think of Elmer Fudd or Foghorn Leghorn - which cartoon is this all referring to?

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  7. Actually: SCO Moderation -1 100% Troll by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or 100% flamebait; take your pick!

  8. Re:Release the ninjas... by EvilAlien · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "We will revoke your UNIX license unless you give us... 1 meeeeeeelllleeoonnn dollars"

    SCO can wither away and die any day now, I'm getting sick of this story...

    BTW, there is another movie we can compare the SCO fiasco with: Dumb and Dumber.

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  9. Nah by cscx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it were April 1st, Slashdot would post the article, like, 8 times or so. Not that such a thing wouldn't happen under normal circumstances anyway.

  10. Re:Release the ninjas... by DragonMagic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So where are the sharks with the frickin' lasers on their heads?

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  11. No No No.. Its like this.... by acomj · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Its like this! Dukes of Hazard style...

  12. This kinda reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of that day I flipped off the Michigan State Trooper on my way home from work on I-94.

    Boy, was that a mistake!

  13. Re:I's like to know if... by Thing+1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Meanwhile McBride has been hyping the lawsuit [...]

    Anyone else think of Happy Meals when they read that sentence?

    Let's see, marry a female McDonald's employee: McBride!

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  14. Re:is this extortion? by Guardian+of+Separate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I should think they expected the codebases to remain separate and not "seperate". The grandfather of Internet spelling mistakes has struck again, and you, Sir, are the fifth perpetrator since my quest began.

    So; another soul saved. Do not let me catch you writing that again!