OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money

viewstyle writes "Just when you had heard enough, the ongoing controversy about SCO vs. Linux has popped up over at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). According to Eweek's story, the panelists agreed that SCO is targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise cash. Most importantly: "if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go.""

Comments

About money? But

[AtariAmarok]

It's all about money? I thought it was about the cool evening wear of the mascot.

Re:About money? But

[bsharitt]

Wow, you can't get anything past these OSCON guys.

Re:About money? But

[RALE007]

whoa whoa whoa, let me get this right? You think this about the money? You my friend, are an idiot! Why SCO obviously has an inherent right to everything on this planet, DARL C. MCBRIDE SAYS SO! We all owe him 3 billion dollars for existing, he says he has solid proof that he will share any day now, that gods creation of the Universe was based of off SCO IP. Infact many parts of our own double helix is a direct copy of secret proprietary code (he just won't tell us which yet). Oh my god, I just figured out the missing link in mans evolution! It was SCO source code injected into human DNA by the evil IBM! Nobel prize, here I come.

If you mod me -1 flamebait, you my friend, have no sense of humor.

How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?

FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.

AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.

AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?

Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?

Re:How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux?

[wayward_son]

If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?

FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.

AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.

AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?

Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?

WTF???

SCO Lawsuit About the Money

[grennis]

In other news, it was discovered that the Earth is round and fire is hot. Film at 11.

Re:SCO Lawsuit About the Money

[Bob McCown]

In other news, it was discovered that the Earth is round and fire is hot. Film at 11.

I thought it was "Cellophane factory burns. No film at 11!"

Umm..

[grub]

You mean Chris Sontag isn't serious about wanting Linux to grow and prosper? That greedy son of a bitch!

It's just a consequence of a natural process

[Anonymous Coward]

When an animal dies its sphincter loosens up and a smelly mess is created. Ditto SCO.

Re:OSCON eh?....

[gantrep]

NOCSO?

It's all about money?

[Homology]

Oh dear! I just thought it was righteous outrage at teft of SCO's GPL'ed IP.

You missed the opportunity

[Pac]

And there is one reason for profit corporations exist-- to make money. This is a surprise why?

The real quote would be: And there is one reason for Courts to exist-- to help corporations make money. This is a surprise why?

Use protection

[mikeophile]

People in the open-source community should also not accept software under the Microsoft Shared Source license as they could become "contaminated"

That just sounds vaguely nasty.

Remember kids, don't share unprotected source with Microsoft, or you risk litigiously tramsmitted diseases.

Bingo!

[Jack William Bell]

I got a diagonal Buzzword-Bingo on CTO, TCO, BSD and ASP. What did I win?

GNU Beach

[Dr. Mojura]

The Free Software Foundation has never sued anyone who was in beach of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as it simply wants them to come into compliance with the license.

I have never heard of this beach before. Where can I find it? Is it a GNUde beach?

It's all about the money

[jjp5421]

Step 1. Run company into ground
Step 2. File frivolous lawsuits that enrage the entire computing community (even mac users).
Step 3. ...
Step 4. Profit!

What's SCO?

[Ignominious Poltroon]

I read slashdot all the time, and I have no idea what this is about. I wish they could provide some context with these articles.

to anyone versed in logic

[mikecarrmikecarr]

if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go.

I'm not sure how many people out there are versed in logic but essentially:

IF HYPOTHESIS THEN CONCLUSION is logically equivalent to IF NOT CONCLUSION THEN NOT HYPOTHESIS. (you're examining the contrapostive of the original statement)

Anyways, if you apply this transformation to the original statement (if a company is not after money then suing is not the way to go) you get:

Suing is the way to go if a company is after money

Food for thought ;)

Shock and awe

[NanoGator]

"panelists agreed that SCO is targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise cash." ... in stark contrast to every other corporation in the world that is in existence to better humanity.