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Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money

Posted by timothy on from the like-mel-gibson-in-ransom dept.

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?"

9 of 455 comments (clear)

  1. I told you SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No you didnt

  2. Re:DEAR GOD THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hello there maybe you can help me. i haev almos completed gta vice citu bu i cannot compete the mission wehre you haev to take bombs with a rc helicopter and guide it to a building that is benig bulit and make it explode and take it down.
    can you help me????

  3. Re:DEAR GOD THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If you are on that mission, then you haven't almost completed Vice City.

    Anyway, do the one on the top floor of the building first, then work your way back.

    Avoid the workers.

    Practice flying the helicopter.

    It took a few tries, but wasn't that difficult.

  4. Re:DEAR GOD THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyway, do the one on the top floor of the building first, then work your way back.

    I disagree. You should start at the bottom floor, and finish with the top floor. The reason being is that once you set the last bomb, the mission is complete. If you finish with the bomb that is furthest away (on the top floor) you never have to take that long trip all the way from the top floor back to the van.

  5. Re:DEAR GOD THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I disagree. While Mortal Kombat was a good game, I think Donkey Kong was the best game ever.

  6. Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprint by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But can you build a beowulf cluster of those...

    --
    "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
    --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
  7. Re:Red Herrings Eat Profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... what the hell?

  8. Usenet Kooks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you find Usenet kooks amusing check out David Tholen:

    He hangs out in rec.music.classical, although he's also active on OS/2 newsgroups.

    He writes these crazy lists of people he considers are antagonistic towards him, although even asking him a single, simple question can get you added to the list. Check it out:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie =U TF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=bpiesb%24r1p%241%40online.de &prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe% 3DUTF-8%26group%3Drec.music.classical

    or just search rec.music.classical for the word `antagonist`.

    He's inspired the following site.

    http://members.tripod.com/~tholen_of_borg/

  9. Re:DEAR GOD THE FAGGOTRY IS THICK IN HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, you're right. I probably should have done it that way.