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SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix

Posted by michael on from the no-truth-to-it dept.

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."

12 of 573 comments (clear)

  1. ATTENTION GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please crapflood ticalc.org

    Thanks.

  2. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sco makes music?

    1. Re:first post? by boisepunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      they do

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  3. SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE, SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    shake your goatse! shake your goatse!

    SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE, SHAKE SHAKE SHAKEshake your goatse! shake your goatse!

    SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE, SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE

    FIRST POST MUTHERFUCOKER!S

    1. Re:SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE, SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      interesting concept

      but you fail it hard.

  4. FROSTY POST YOU NIGGERS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  5. Re:SCOX rampage. by Dr.+GeneMachine · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    --= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?

    No.

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  6. THIS iS GOATSEX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mechanics. So I'm

  7. Nonliteral Implementation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy Shit!!!!!! I am so stoned and I have no idea what the hell nonliteral implementation means!!!!!!!! Does that mean the same as orthogonal or is it like the projection of Linux onto Unix?????? Im so confused, who can help me??????

  8. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *SIGH* Lemme get out my special dialing wand.

  9. Re:What gets me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're Bingo! You're Bingo! Bingo the clown-o!

    WERE YOU LOOKING AT MY MONEEEEEEEEY?!

  10. Re:TROLL ALERT by orthogonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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