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IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline
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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2.4.21 is out.
Now, what's particularly interesting is that it's arrived right at the dead time between SCO treatening to do something, and actually doing it.
If I wanted to thumb my nose at SCO, I'd release a kernel right now (probably call it the "recumbant bicycle" release, or something). Of course, the dev time for the stable series is so long, that it's just coincidence - right?
So why did Marcelo say he was planning 2.4.22 in a few weeks?
If SCO's aim is to hurt linux, I think that they just got a good demonstration that the engineers (who, in terms of OSS, are the only ones who count) don't care about them.
I don't feel that OpenBSD's strength is that they are doing something different. It shares a large base of code with the other BSDs and is about as *nix as you can get. The strength of OpenBSD is that the maintainers are actively seeking out and squashing bugs. Even with all the linux advocates out there trumpeting the many eyes theory it doesn't beat a core team that spend the majority of their time just finding bugs.
IBM even made machines that were sold to Nazi Germany before WW2 and used to administrate the execution of Jews. Or so I heard.
If you want safety, buy treasuries. The government can just print up more money if they need to pay you.
And they're going to have to do it, too, which will accelerate inflation- the #1 enemy of the bondholder. It swallows your interest earnings. If they just turn on the printing press to pay you, it wasn't such a good investment, was it?
If you want safety, buy Euros. The dollar is going to crash sooner or later once they start printing money to pay for these tax cuts and the baby boomer retirements. As a share of federal budget outlays, interest payments on the debt have already almost caught up to what we spend on the military.
Almost makes you wonder why the government even bothers to borrow money instead of just printing it in the first place. It wouldn't be any more irresponsible than what it's doing now.