My Visit to SCO

Ian Lance Taylor writes "I signed the SCO NDA and visited them to discuss their claims against Linux. My essay about it is on the Linux Journal web site. The short version is that SCO's claims are unproven, as indeed I expected would be the case before I went. The amount of information they were willing to show me was extremely limited, and did not by itself prove that their claims were true, nor that their claims were false." Other SCO-bits: Sun is doing their usual foot-in-mouth routine, thinking that two FUDs makes a Solaris purchase, or something like that. IBM is now joining the contact the customers bandwagon. Eric Raymond has been keeping himself busy - here's a story about him. SCO hates BSD, too, but they're not taking it lying down. And of course Cringley has his two cents.

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Mac OS X

[jo_ham]

Buy from Apple. They have no such nonsense with OS X. No serial numbers, no activation, no spying, no treating you like a criminal, no slimy EULAs giving them access to your drive and all data on it.

Just an operating system on a couple of CDs that works, installs easily and still makes Apple money. Imagine that.