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SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix
dr3vil writes "eWeek publishes an interview with SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag about the IBM lawsuit. SCO now claim that Linux is a 'nonliteral implementation' of Unix, and compare their claim to those involving Harry Potter rip-offs and Vanilla Ice versus David Bowie and Queen." And ronaldb64 writes "Yahoo Business has a nice summary of the last couple of months of stock movement of SCO, and the reasons why. It contains quotes from business analysts ('Win or lose, the outcome is at least a couple of years away' - 'In the interim, we know the company is going to burn through its cash balance.'), the lack of interest in SCO licenses, the effect the license purchase of EveryOne Ltd. had, and its continuing battle with Novell. The explanation given by pro- and contra-SCO activists is interesting: the pro-SCO group (in the form of SCO CFO Robert Bench) says it is because SCO has been laying low lately, the contra-SCO group (in the form of Eben Moglen) says it is because investors are beginning to understand how weak SCO's case is."
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Once again, a member of anti-slash.org has poisoned the well by copying a previous post verbatim rather than writing something original, and then he goes and brags about it on the front page of anti-slash.org,
Well, yes, the grandparent article is pointed to by anti-slash.org and attributed to their "db tool", but that article is not in the anti-slash database.
While it's possible it was removed after the parent post's alert, it's also possible that the anti-slash post was a more elaborate troll: earlier this week anti-slash.org nominated one of my posts for modding up, and attributed it to the db tool.
Of course, my post was an original work and didn't come from anti-slash's db or anywhere else -- like Athena from Zeus's, my post sprang full formed from my brow.
My post to anti-slash's forum asking why my post had been incorrectly attributed to the "db tool" wasn't answered.
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