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Posted by michael on from the yee-haa dept.

Time to clear out the bin of the taint of SCO, hopefully we haven't posted these already... The Economist has a piece titled Face Value -- Of Monkeys and Penguins. The EFF is pushing an email campaign about SCO. An anonymous reader submits this completely unverified claim that SCO needs to change the password on their mail server: sco.txt. And another reader presents a theory about SCO's stock performance.

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  1. Yes, I posted this story yesterday by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Informative

    and it was rejected.

    I'm not grousing.

    The Economist has captured the issue very well, and in a way that any businessman (your boss, your clients, for instance) will understand.

    It has also defined the core of this issue, namely the realignment of the IT industry from old to new, with SCO/MS on the old side, and IBM/OSS/Linux on the new.

    I never thought I would see IBM on the right side of IT, but there we have it.

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  2. Re:Whatabout paragraph 141? by EvilAlien · · Score: 5, Informative
    There is still no comment, but I think the comments to 140 say it all. DYNIX is not relevant here, given that it is based on the BSD lineage: "DYNIX developed at Sequent years ago was derived from BSD 4.1 with patches from 4.2 and new code by Sequent".

    The precedent set in the Berkeley v AT&T decision counters much of SCO's mindless spew. I got the idea that by the time Rob and Eric got to that point in the rebuttal that they got sick of repeating the same point over and over again, resulting in comments becoming sparser.

    Can somebody just hand Halloween IX to the appropriate judges so they can dismiss this thing already and focus on IBM's counterclaims? hehe Stupid SCO.

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