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IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-to-go-blue dept.

prostoalex writes "IBM refused to settle with SCO and comply with their deadline, expiring Friday the 13th. "We've got a strong defense case, and we're going to fight it", IBM representative is quoted."

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  1. Has Slashdot reported this? by beldraen · · Score: 5, Informative
    It appears SCO is expanding their threats to everyone else.

    Linux software companies could also become SCO targets. "Do we have potential issues with Red Hat, SuSE and other commercial Linux distributors--yes, we might," Sontag said, adding that chances for negotiating with such companies appear to be slim.

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    Bel, the mostly sane.. "Of course I can't see anything! I'm standing on the shoulders of idiots." -- Me
  2. Re:I fear that IBM will win. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Modern OSS lack original ideas.
    No it doesn't. Look at GNU Radio. You can use it to decode HDTV signals. Try finding non-free software that does the same thing. The linux kernel has VFS (Virtual Filesystem Switch) which acts as an abstraction layer allowing you to mount and use many different file systems in the same way. That's pretty original. Look at OpenBSD. It has encrypted swap space and random pids. What other OS has that? Look at apache. Before apache you couldn't have more than one website per box. Look at Gnutella, it was the first distributed p2p software ever. And the list goes on....

  3. Re:I hate to say... by tartanblue · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, it used to be called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company back in 1911. CTR merger in 1911

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    TartanBlue
  4. SCO site still uses Linux by LuiWoh · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a company that seems to hate Linux so much it is funny to see via Netcraft that Sco's site SCO.COM is running Linux. Seemed they used to use SCO UNIX but switched to Linux according to the graphs. Yet IBM, that pushes Linux runs on AIX.

  5. Re:I hate to say... by cgleba · · Score: 5, Informative

    The part of IBM that has been around since the 1890s is Hollerinth:

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring00/V22.0004- 00 2/history/hollerinth.html

    The US Census was the birth of the punch card and indirectly, what we know of as IBM.

    IBM history is really fascinating. For instance, in the great depression Watson made the same mistake as Henry Ford -- over-production. IBM would have struggled hard like Ford did if it wasn't for Roosevelt's New Deal (which, incidentally, needed a *lot* of tabulating machines to account for it all).

    I could go on and on, but I suggest you get a good book such as "Computer: History of the Information Machine". The history of the computing industry is much like a geek soap opera.