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Groklaw Sends A Dear Darl Letter

Posted by timothy on from the deserves-to-be-framed dept.

Ralph Yarro writes "The Inquirer is carrying the text of an open letter sent to Darl McBride from members of the open source community at Groklaw. This is a lengthy and detailed response to the open letter Darl sent a while back."

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  1. Beating Darl at his Own Game by billstr78 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Obviously, the SCO FUD machine will not halt under it's own misguided intentions. So it only makes sense that members of the community fight SCO on thier own grounds and at thier own game. It looks like the Linux owners claim of protection under the GPL is far a far stronger argument for suit than any 10 lines of copied source embedded deep within the kernel. It fills me with pride to read the calm, well thought words of a community under fire. I will sleep a little better at night knowing that serious action is awaiting SCO at the end of thier grab for cash profit scheme.

  2. Re:Ouchhh!..or is it??? by emurphy42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > what LKP exactly is

    http://www.sco.com/products/lkp/

    "The Linux(R) Kernel Personality (LKP) for UnixWare 7.1.3 provides Linux environment hosted on the UnixWare kernel. This environment does not contain a Linux kernel, but does contain the PRMs needed to run most Linux applications. By invoking the UnixWare kernel to run the Linux application, the application gets all of the performance and scalability advantages that UnixWare delivers. Linux applications that are disk or database intensive, or require support for a large number of users, typically perform with greater stability, reliability, and scalability when deployed on the UnixWare LKP environment."

    "Since UnixWare is much more powerful, scalable and secure than Linux, customers may replace multiple Linux servers with a single, more powerful UnixWare server."

    Goddamn, you can't make up stuff this funny!

    (I also liked the "Flame Editor" link at the bottom of The Inquirer's page. Apparently all their articles use that wording.)

  3. SCOX is not up on normal market demand.. by burnin1965 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you compare the data at ThomsonFN.com that shows some information on who is buying and selling you will notice something peculiar about SCOX.

    SCOX

    RHAT

    IBM

    MSFT

    If you look at the pie charts at the bottom of the pages, it seems that only retail traders are willing to let anyone know they are buying/selling SCOX. For the most part the known SCOX traders are people using online trading or calling up their broker and making a trade request.

    There are virtually no institutional traders who are willing to publicly advertise they are trading SCOX.

    Now all of these charts show a large portion of traders that are unknown, however, I have a suspicion that the unknown traders in SCOX are the driving force behind raising the stock price. And my suspicion tells me that it may be for two reasons, 1) it creates an impression that the market has faith in the SCO case and expects a big windfall coming to SCO, and 2) with SCO execs dumping stock this is one way that someone could provide a payoff without directly transfering cash to SCO or its execs.

    Of course this is purely speculation and I could just be paranoid. You'll have to make your own judgement as to what the numbers mean.

    burnin