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New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit
daddywonka writes "According to this article at internetnews.com, an upcoming survey from the Robert Frances Group shows that 'cost-savings and the General Public License, or GPL, are trumping any concerns about SCO Group's claim of copyright infringement within parts of Linux.' The survey only covers 15 companies. That doesn't seem very reassuring to me. Do any slashdotters have experience with their companies pulling the plug on Linux projects due to the SCO trial or is it business as usual?"
And that works on your planet? You people are alien!
you insensitive clod! Yeah, I know SCO are talking about BSD now, thus proving they really are crazy.
A memo was sent by a manager (non techy) to my team leader (very techy) about the possibility of us having to pay linux license fees on our servers....his reaction "They can shove it" and "Im not f*cking paying anything to SCO".
Three AIX servers, thirty six Linux servers in two clusters, one happy team of system admins. If SCO ever come calling here they will be escorted from the building to the sound of our laughter.
Ed
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
General Purpose License?
That's silly, we all know it stands for the General Products License, which allows one to use a General Products Hull, except around black holes and antimatter.
With a small selection of sidearms one bad employee could put an end to all this FUD.
When I first saw that headline, I thought "What the hell is a Linux Chili?"
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I love my job, and I am in complete agreement with the direction of our wise leaders!
Now I must go, because my 2-minute per month slashdot reading period is over. I must recite the Company Pledge of Allegance.
- Mike
Who's afraid of the big bad SCO
Big bad SCO, big bad SCO?
Who's afraid of the big bad SCO?
Mother F-ing Darl
Who's afraid of the big bad SCO
Big bad SCO, big bad SCO?
Who's afraid of the big bad SCO?
Mother F-ing Darl
Darl is the windy wolf, the three little pigs are IBM, Redhat and Novell. Unfortunately, there were no straw or twigs used in this story, and the three little piggies are all laughing their asses off as Darl stands outside the door of the brick house, huffing and puffing about the validity of the GPL, the mysterious stolen code and Darl's hurt feelings because he tried a working relationship with IBM and it went sour.
C'mon, Darl, let's see you huff and puff and blow the door down. I don't think you can do it!
Is that you, Mom??
-Mike
I don't think they even read their own e-mail. I *STILL* did not receive any kind of answer to this message I sent through their website, more than one month ago:
I am running linux and have not paid any copyright to SCO. I'd like to know if you are willing to sue Brazilians running Linux. If so, I'd like to be sued by you, but I have no clue on how to proceed. What info do you need to sue me ? Please let me know and I'll promptly provide you all the requested info. I am running it in just one machine, but am willing to run it in more machines if it increases my chances of being sued. This is a serious question, please reply.
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
Geez, I'm not even sure our IT department can spell Linux...We just loooooovvvvve filling Bill's pockets with money.
Oh wait, gotta reboot....
Dogu
ps - as much as I hate to admit it, we've been switching most everything over to Win2000 and/or XP Pro and the overall reliability of workstations and servers has improved - we don't crash and burn nearly as often as we used to.
I don't even know all that much about the legalities of what's happening
We noticed, Kev, that's what makes it so amusing.
I just passed a kidney stone last week, I for one am hoping this SCO issues is MUCH less painful.
I know I don't know what I don't know.
"The more he talked about his honor the faster we counted the spoons..."
deploying XENIX. Merry holidays...
Finally top it off with a "linux is not unix" and hasn't been proven in a court of law to be anyway.
;-)
Please no more recursive acronyms
You sound like a millionaire who is _about_ to loose his job, and goes stealing bread and butter in advance.
No choice my a$$
"/Dread"
There is a proverb in my language which says when loosely translated "The support of a straw for a drowning man".
The American version is "grasping at straws".
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Let the anal probing begin!
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
>grow some balls. believe in something and take a stand.
So says the Anonymous Coward.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.