SGI Code Changes Not Enough, Says SCO

yeremein writes "According to this vnunet.com article, SCO's code changes Update: 10/04 20:51 GMT by T : (This should read "SGI's" rather than "SCO's.") removing arguably System-V-related code from SGI's Linux submissions is 'not enough.' According to Blake Stowell of SCO, 'Making minor amendments to its XFS file system doesn't cure the breach. SGI must do more as outlined [in the August letter] to cure all of their breaches.' But later on in the article, we learn what was outlined in the August letter: 'We don't believe that SGI has taken all of the steps necessary to cure all of the breaches, and in fact in our letter to them, we state "SGI's breaches of these agreements cannot be cured."' So SCO essentially told SGI, 'You're in violation of our contract and unless you remedy the violations, we'll pull your UNIX license. Oh, BTW, you can't remedy the violations.' This looks to me like the clearest example yet of how SCO is acting in bad faith." Read on below for another snippet of SCO strangeness.

An anonymous reader writes "As many are aware, SCO has sought (and got) a 4 month extension to its IBM lawsuit. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: 'SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said Tuesday that he understood the extension is being sought "for the purpose of gaining documents from IBM related to the patents they claim. . . . Some of the patents aren't even filed with the U.S. Patent Office, as far as we can learn."' I thought this was worth looking at, and quickly found that the patents in question are 4,814,746, 4,821,211, 4,953,209, and 5,805,785 - which can be found by typing in their numbers in this USPTO form."

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Re:The only Real Remedy...

[RighteousFunby]

Why, when reading that, do I think of Hitler giving a speech?

parsley sage rosemary and Tyme

[Stephen Samuel]

There'a a song by Simon and Garfunkel called 'Scarbrorough fair'. It's a message to the singer's ex-love ("she once was a true love of mine"), and it has two repeating parts: "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Tyme" and "Then she'll be a true love of mine".

Musically, the song is absolutely gorgeous, but one day a lover of mine explained the story of the song:
First of all, Parseley, sage, rosemary and tyme are 3 common spices which are (by themselves) delicious and harmless, but if you mix them together, the result is poisonous.
The second part to note is that his requests to her for what she should do whence "then she'll be a true love of mine". are all impossible.

This beautiful song when fully understood is really a poison pen letter. In HitchHikers Guide To The Galasy terminoligy it's executive summary is: "do seven impossible things before breakfast, and I'll meet you at the restaurant at the end of the universe where we can discuss the possibility of our getting together again.