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Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money
benploni writes "George Weiss of Gartner has published a paper with some interesting recommendations regarding SCO. They include 1) Keep a low profile and do not divulge details on Linux deployments. 2) Until a judgment in a case would unequivocally warrant it, Linux users should not pay SCO the license fees it has asked for to settle its allegations of infringement of intellectual property rights. 3) Do not permit SCO to audit your premises without legal authorization. 4) For customers of SCO Open Server and UnixWare, an unfavorable judgment could cause SCO to cease operations or sell itself. That could harm future support and maintenance. Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years. There's more, but are the analysts finally catching on?"
Man, I want a job at the Gartner group. It seems their methods go something like:
1) Something happens
2) Side with big business and release a paper
3) Wait until popular tide changes
4) Release new paper contradicting old one.
Shit, I could do that all day. Sign me up!
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Elmer Fudd: "Be vary vary quiet. We're deploying Linux!"
'cause they don't know jack shit! We once had Gartner do market analysis for us, and when the guy came over to present it, a couple of his pie charts showed wrong percentages. The percentages he had on his slides were adding up to something like 112%, not 100. Of course he got caught and laughed at. We haven't used their services since then. :0) Our management can pull better numbers out of their ass.
You mean the same Gartner Group that recommended people to halt Linux deployment because of all the SCUD (SCO FUD)?
Wait a minute ... no, no, none of this adds up at all! :-)
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They know they have absolutely no case... so what is SCO trying to do, exactly?
Are they just toying with the system for whatever reason? Is the CEO bored so they ask themselves, "How much BS can we get away with before we get arrested and/or the govt. tells us to stop?"
What exactly is going on? They're not stupid. They know that their claims that "their" code was included in Linux distributions is completely asinine.
That'd be like me running of and trying to sue all these corporations because I wanted to buy black shoelaces but purchased a remote control helicopter instead (or something else utterly stupid that wastes everyone's time)..
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Anyone have any details on how to do this? I've got some systems that I'd like to cloak as classic MacOS machines to discourage script kiddies from poking at them. They're already locked down, but I figure the more indirection I can throw out, the more likely that they'll go off and bother some other poor sod.
"SCO sues Gartner Group"
So it's kind've like painting goat's blood over your door...
I don't know, I just can't see McBride as the angel of death.
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
It just took them a bunch of time to finish reading all the SCO stuff on /.
But what do they think about emacs vs vi?
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More like a snow-angel of slightly bad day.
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Wang VSOS 7.53 seems to be very non controversial. I bet users could get great deals on ProDOS 3.3 for Apple ][. Maybe there are even a few copies of OS/2 3.1 hanging around somewhere? As long as we're at it, I haven't heard a single litigious thing from CP/M lately. Let's use that!
You mean SCO *has* customers?
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I also recommend that you run out to CompUSA quickly because I saw a copy of "SCO Unix in a Nutshell" on the discount shelf for only $5. You will need this after SCO goes out of business and you no longer have support.
No trees were harmed in the composition of this; however, numerous electrons were inconvenienced.
If Microsoft==Gardner
Then Gardner -> Pro-Linux
Pro-Linux -> Anti-SCO
And Microsoft-> SCO
This doesn't match up... Guess we'll need NEO to balance the equation (or Agent Smith)
how long until
Huh? Are there actually companies stupid enough to say,
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
utter rubbish
SCO Information Minister McBride claims Garnter Group isn't even within 100 miles of the truth.
overextending yourself is a bad business model. They're like Rome!
The crucial difference here is that Rome was, at one time during its history, feared and respected.
I am waiting to see how long it will take for good old Darl to come out and say that this report is just IBM plotting again.
I was watching X men and it hit me that the whole movie was a SCO analogy. Stay with me here. Bill Gates is Magneto and Darl McBride is Toad. Now I haven't figured out who Mystique is yet, but since she is the closest thing to a nude woman most Slashdotters are ever going to see, we all need to at least get a mental image of her at this point. Anyway, Magneto has all the important people rounded up at this big party -- these people are IBM, Novell, Red Hat big wigs, etc. -- and he has this huge electrical storm heading toward them (I have seen the movie three times now and I'm still not exactly sure what that electrical-storm thing is supposed to do?). Now here is where it gets good because Linus is Wolverine (Logan) and off on the side, as this big storm comes, he is battling Toad. First, Wolverine makes it look like he killed himself by starting to talk about incorporating DRM into Linux, but this is all blowing smoke up everyone's ass, 'cause Toad, thinking Wolverine is dead, goes up to him and starts looking through his pockets for some code to steal, but Wolverine shoots his knives out of his fingers and rams them right through Toad...you can see them sticking out of his back, and as the camera zooms in, you see blood stained, cool-looking shiny metal glistening in the moonlight. Now with Toad out of the way Wolverine turns his sights toward stopping Magneto and his electrical storm-cloud thing speeding towards everyone. Wolverine quickly finds the computer controlling the storm and starts to do some hacking on it to stop the storm, but when he brings up a DOS window to run a script in, the damn thing gets a BSOD...forcing Logan to do a crtl-alt-delete on the computer...three times. Luckily, the reboot stops the electrical storm-cloud thing, but Logan does feel a little robbed that it was Magneto's own poor software that really did him in!
To be continued....
Ron Paul
In summary:
Thanks, Gartner. That's the kind of hard-hitting, insightful business advice we need in this management-by-Ziff-Davis world. Maybe next month they can do a helpful piece on not paying a parking ticket until you've been issued one, and then only if it was issued by a real Dept. of Traffic officer, and not some homeless guy who wrote the citation on a napkin.
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Oops, I already emailed SCO and dared them to sue me...
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I can see tomorrow's headline already: "SCO Sues Gartner"; claims ownership of 'letters and numbers and stuff' used to create the report citing similar reports produced by SCO in the past. It appears most of these allegations stem from similar comments strewn across the reports such as "we are so screwed" and "hurry up and sell that before it goes back down."
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"Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years."
Why do they need top publish this advice on a website? Can't they just email SCO's last remaining customer directly?
For the longest time I had Konqueror reporting that I was browsing using Mosaic .01A on a Coleco Adam. Used to drive our webmaster nuts when he ran the user agent reports for the month.
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So a few thousand /.ers should apply for the position? How long would it take SCO to figure out their leg was being pulled?
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