More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX

inc_x writes "GROKLAW has a compelling analysis that shows that SCO's claims that it owns the UNIX operating system are not very truthful. The Open Group confirms this position: "Statements that SCO "owns the UNIX operating system" or has "licensed UNIX to XYZ", are clearly inaccurate and misleading." It seems that SCO finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish facts from fiction. Last week SCO claimed 'This IP battle is only one part of SCO's business and is an add-on component. The core of SCO's business is profitable,' not bothered by the fact that they had claimed the opposite in their SEC filing: 'If we do not receive SCOsource licensing revenue in future quarters and our revenue from the sale of our operating system platform products and services continues to decline, we will need to further reduce operating expenses in order to maintain profitability or generate positive cash flow.'"

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Oh for chrissake

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

With Slashdot's already extensive coverage of the SCO "affair", it's quite obvious that (1) it's a classic case of stock pumping and illegal insider's trading, (2) Most of the industry is not impressed, (3) they'll be squashed by IBM and (4) this whole thing is ridiculously overblown.

So, unless there's some really new development, why do we have to see SCO articles here over and over and over again?

This reminds me of the CueCat thing a while ago: Slashdot seems to regularly latch on some geek-attracting subject, use and reuse it shouting blasphemy against the great opensource and free speech gods, then suddenly drop the whole thing and fall back to the usual background noise of Microsoft bashing. It's really pathetic ...

Re:Oh for chrissake

[NanoGator]

"Well, DON'T CLICK IT ON SCO STORIES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THEM!"

Yeah, real useful advice when the story's already there.

Consider this: lots of people are SICK of the round and round "uh SCO is wrong" stories, but they still want to read the one that says SCO won or lost.

Slashdot needs to cool it a bit. Though, I am glad that the anti-MS bs has died down. (Note: my comment there excludes the important stuff like coverage of the Blaster worm.)

Re:Oh for chrissake

[NanoGator]

"So scan the stories---or maybe just the headlines. It's not like (at least in this case) you can't tell from the friggin' headline whether anything has happened, after all."

In other words, read what I don't want to read. In the mean time, they could be posting more interesting stuff.

Yep, great solution.

Re:It doesn't matter

[RevSmiley]

As I said in an earlier post about the Hatch p2p is pr0n article.

Can anyone deny now that these Mormons need to be dealt with. They control the FBI (Ever wonder why the FBI so fucked up and inept?) Mormons are the people behind SCO. Now Hatch is going to try and push this through while we still don't have secure borders and are being taken over by illegal aliens out here in California. I hate to sound bigoted but this shit has got to stop. Fuck these dammed religous zealots and their rich friends.

Go ahead mormon boy mod me down and I'll just repost. You can't stand have anything that might make you all look bad. I know you will because you did this last time I pointed out how out of control you people seem to be. You are entitled to your religon but not entitled to make me a second class citizen or infringe my rights so you can look good to your elders and get rich and give tons of money to your stake.

Reposeted as I said I would.

[RevSmiley]

As I said in an earlier post about the Hatch p2p is pr0n article.

Can anyone deny now that these Mormons need to be dealt with. They control the FBI (Ever wonder why the FBI so fucked up and inept?) Mormons are the people behind SCO. Now Hatch is going to try and push this through while we still don't have secure borders and are being taken over by illegal aliens out here in California. I hate to sound bigoted but this shit has got to stop. Fuck these dammed religous zealots and their rich friends.

Go ahead mormon boy mod me down and I'll just repost. You can't stand have anything that might make you all look bad. I know you will because you did this last time I pointed out how out of control you people seem to be. You are entitled to your religon but not entitled to make me a second class citizen or infringe my rights so you can look good to your elders and get rich and give tons of money to your stake.