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OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-there's-a-shocker dept.

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.""

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  1. Official WIZARD postal flip out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dking3/real_ultimate_p ow er.htm


    Wizards are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.

    Facts:

    1. Wizards are mammals.
    2. Wizards fight ALL the time.
    3.The purpose of the wizard is to flip out and kill people.

    1. Re:Official WIZARD postal flip out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You ASSHAT! You wasted a perfectly good first post by getting the link wrong!

      Thereby, I claim that YOU HAVE FAILED IT and your first post is invalid.

      Now get out of the way and let the real trolls do their job.

      Have a nice day.

  2. Just like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Spike Lee suing Viacom over the Spike TV name, and, gosh, he happened to settle when he got a TV deal from Viacom owned network Showtime.

  3. Slashdot quoting slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The moderator of the Panel... /.'s own Chris DiBona

    This isn't news. It's hardly even opinion.

  4. Yeah it's the money.... by Iron+Monkey543 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but it's used to pay for Stephen Hawking's cover charge

  5. Money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bling Bling,
    What what,
    Dolla Dolla Bill, Ya'll!

  6. SCIZZO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCIZZO is sizuing for tha scrilla, yo!

  7. No way! by NaugaHunter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Enron used child labor? Those bastards!

    --
    R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
  8. Re:IP problems of Linux well known to Unix experts by CoolVibe · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mac OS X has been based on BSD for the following reason: OS X is actually a very new version of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/etc. The original *STEP versions ran on a Mach microkernel with a 4.4BSD personality. So Jobs chose BSD because the old NEXT stuff ran on BSD, so to speak. This has, well, absolutely nothing to do with the SCO suit.

  9. More interesting "other news" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And in other news...CNN is reporting that Stonehenge is actually a big stone representation of a human female reproductive orifice. I kid you not. Now that *is* News for Nerds. ROTFLMFAO!