IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual

Newsforge is running a statement from IBM on its decision not to bow to SCO's demand that they stop shipping AIX. In a statement this short, there's not much room for weaselly language, but the even-shorter version is this: "IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated."

Comments

Looks like a fight!

[bsrokc73013]

Looks like IBM is going to bitch-slap SCO!

Who cares about AIX?

[unix-oldtimer]

If SCO makes IBM payup licenses for AIX what do you Linux guys care?. AIX isn't your baby!

Oh so let me see...IBM helps linux so they are the good guys?. Wait SUN helps Linux (OpenOffice/Java/Gnome) but you are dissing SUN everytime you get a chance. Atleast Sun buys up companies and helps linux....IBM is a fucking selfish company...they have never helped anybody except themselves. Weasels!!!!

Caldera did more for Linux's initial appeal (note was the third commercial distro after Slackware and Redhat).

I hope for the sake of Linux, IBM and AIX fry!.

Let SCO Win This One, For My Sake

[The Spie]

Screw IBM. I'm calling the BSA out on my last two employers tomorrow. That'll teach them for 1) running Appgen, one of the worst POS excuses for an accounting software on Earth and 2) treating me like dirt.

Actually, I might end up leaving one employer alone. They're being migrated to Great Plains, and that's torture enough.

Re:way to go big blue!!

[leereyno]

Actually it is the Treasury that prints money. The Justice department is in charge of maintaining the criminal threat that keeps them in the business of going after criminals. When criminals are in short supply ordinary citizens are persecuted instead.