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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. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    SCO when will the madness end?

  2. Gee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hmm it's show time! Wonders if they get bought or counter sued...

  3. I hate SCO. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I hate SCO. Fuck SCO.

  4. Re:LOL by shaitand · · Score: 0, Redundant

    yes, this is sco's new business strategy, sue EVERYONE.

  5. Re:Release the ninjas... by PukkaStoryTeller · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But there are so many 80's movies... Bless them all... of which are you referring to?

  6. License? by cbdavis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We dont need no steenking license!!!

  7. This won't make any difference by NavelFozz · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's pretty clear that SCO is trying to get IBM customers to pressure IBM to settle this. However, it frankly seems pretty absurd. The bottom line is that, as a customer, I am not responsible for IBM's alleged failure to maintain a proper license for UNIX. IBM's license is a license to *copy* UNIX software, and copying is the only activity that could possibly be prophibited. Given that IBM's customers already HAVE copies of AIX, unless IBM's license from SCO has some very odd language in it it seems extremely improbable that customers could lose the license they already have.

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  8. Stop it! by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If I have to tell you just 17 more times then your for it....maybe.

  9. What does F stand for class? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why yes, Jimmy, that's right: F stands for FAILURE! YOU FAIL IT COCKSUCKER

  10. Re:I's like to know if... by mobets · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If only I had mod points... That last one was hilarious.

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  11. Re:I's like to know if... by chabotc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think this quote from a salon.com article sums it up quite well:

    An IBM spokesman declined to comment on the SCO case. The company's legal response to SCO, however, leaves little doubt about IBM's feelings: The filing is an almost comically terse list denying all but the most indisputable claims that SCO makes. For example, one line reads that IBM "denies the averments of paragraph 19, except admits that IBM markets a Unix software product under the trade name 'AIX.'" IBM also candidly admits that its principal place of business is in New York, that it maintains an office in Salt Lake City, and that some of its microchips are more powerful than chips made by Intel. It gives no more ground than that, however.

  12. Re:DO NOT by rkz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 MOD UP

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