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.

Comments

Oh the irony...

[MoogMan]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.sco. com

'Nuff said.

Damage SCO's lunacy might cause.

[s0ckratees]

While, SCO's claims seem to be destined to fizzle out eventually, I fear they may have caused enough damage by then. This will give fodder to anti-linux lobbby claiming this is something that would never happen with a proprietary. Yeah, Linux may be great, but look at "these problems" with "this kinda software".

Re:What SCO is really afraid of.

[sbwoodside]

I'd bet a all the money I have that if that "offending" code was revealed tonight we'd have it all rewritten by Monday morning. The Linux community is more angry about this than anything that has ever touched it. All that anger would be unleached in an orgy of coding the likes of which even God has not seen.

The big headache will come if SCO manages to get through this without ever revealing the code. Then they can charge extortion money from anyone without end.

simon