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SCO Announces Product Line Updates
ArbiterOne writes "Techworld has the story: SCO has unveiled their upcoming product plans, including a new release of UnixWare and a version for point-of-sale devices. Oddly enough, the article states that 'SCO's continuing Unix intellectual property lawsuits against IBM, Novell and others is apparently putting customers off.' I wonder how that could have happened?"
Who actually uses SCO Unixware. I mean, usually any business that wants unix will go with Linux, and in some cases AIX, etc. But who actually uses SCO Unixware, besides SCO (oops, forgot that they were running Linux...)
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I interview earlier this year for a position with a large national autoparts chain, while talking about their systems they mentioned that a large amount of their legacy stuff was dialup to UnixWare servers. I asked them what their feelings were re: the longterm viability of SCO and what their contingency plans were if SCO were to fold. They basically said that they had been thinking of moving to Linux but had made no actual moves towards doing so and that they felt that even if SCO folded that someone else would buy the IP and continue the license. I responded that I doubted whoever bought the IP would continue to offer UnixWare but would rather buy it to be able to controll their own Unix product entirely and would drop UnixWare. They didn't seem too pleased with that assesment. Maybe that's why I didn't get the job but I would rather not have been hired on and then asked to clean up the mess in the future!
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I just went to the SCO website to see what they were advertising, and I noticed something...
Any web designers want to comment on the "turning the picture into grayscale" rollovers?
"he drew his sword Ringil that glittered like ice... and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds..."
If you caught the article from yesterday you will find that DirectTV sue fest is over.
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
its even better, guess who will probably be blamed for the DDoS attack that is happening while this is on the /. main page.
"SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even unconstitutional)! Meanwhile they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their "Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux, Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms."
This guy is way out there
Oddly enough, the article states that 'SCO's continuing Unix intellectual property lawsuits against IBM, Novell and others is apparently putting customers off.' I wonder how that could have happened?
The RIAA and the MPAA would be wise to learn something from the lesson of SCO. Perhaps they will be shrewd enough to do so....let us see.
Check the insider trading history -- the dump is over. The only goal now is to appear to be legit so that they can avoid investigation.
Today's news of SCO's new product line up isn't even enough to help their stock.
Let's see...
Senator Orin Hatch, primarily responsible for DMCA, Patriot Act (he had it written before 9/11) and lots of other very evil legislation.
Senator Bob Bennet, perhaps more benign, but the sort of cluelessness where he claims to be a giant of tech. He takes credit for a lion's share of the drive behind convincing the government to lean on private industry with the Y2K silliness, to the effect of a hundred of billion dollar or more wasted. Then is suprised that tech later had less money to spend on legitimate projects.
Hundreds of thousands of Mormons arguing for a constitutional ammendment that is so religiously based that it also makes the marriage practices of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, etc., which are still vigorously defended if not practiced by Mormons unconstitutional (is this an uninteended consequence? all there were previously were court rulings).
The Utah Republican Party campaigning to defeat a popular referendum (popular in Utah where the majority is Republican) to regulate and tax the absolute worst forms of dumping of toxic wastes in Utah (also represented by Hatch's Son, like SCO).
The list goes on and on [...]
No such thing as bad publicity, if we are going to stop these people slashdot should not post stories covering their saleable goods. On such a high traffic site like this, it may actually net them a sale.
Years? They will run out of cash in 4 - 7 quarters.
7 quarters at current burn rate, 4 with accelerating expenses if the trails get underway.
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Considering what the last UnixWare upgrade used, I have to wonder how many of these enhancements rely on GPL- and BSD-licensed software.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
By coincidence I wisited their homepage yesterday, just to see who actually resells SCO nowadays (the list is impessivly short).
(Im in the middle of moving a client away from a SCO solution)
In USA, there where no resellers listed, just corporate HQ, and 2 branchoffices.
In Germany and UK I belive it was 3, Sweden and Finland one, Africa one, middle-east one (Isreael)
I didnt check all of them, but those I did check was not actually involved in SCO anymore, when I called them theyy got slightly embarresed to be connected to SCO, and told me that they recomended me to convert to Solaris or RedHat, depending on workload (wich they offered to help me with). They blamed SCO that they where still listed, they had terminated all connections some 4 month and 8 month agp
Has anyone else tried clicking on the related topics on the right hand side of the page e.g. company profile?
It takes me straight to Micro$oft's home page!!! What's going on here? I am running FireFox 0.9 on a Mac. I notice that the link switched to is http://http//www.sco.com/company/profile.html. Even stranger, why does this take me to Micro$oft? Is someone at Mozilla playing a joke?
I'm confused!
Kevin
"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in" O. Nash
Nobody's asking them to give their code away, nobody wants it. They want SCO to stop claiming they own the independently-developed Linux code that IBM brought features to, the same as they brought JFS, NUMA, etc. to AIX from their other OS'.
SCO's business is floundering, and they've stooped to nuisance suits against a deep-pocketed IBM claiming they own AIX/Dynix, thinking they'd be bought out, but instead have drawn the attention of the Pinstripe Nazgul onto themselves. The end result is likely to be a smoking crater in Lindon where once stood SCO. And the rest of us will bring marshmallows.
Easy there... you would be hard pressed to find anyone besides Mormons that considers Mormons to be "Christians".
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Well, atheists tend to lump them together, forgetting that Mormons place as much emphasis on Jesus as Muslims do. In fact, people should check out some of the online resources, like religioustolerance.org, and read some of the essays comparing Islam with the LDS church. Some startling similarities, especially WRT their founders and how they started their religions (both were aproached by beings of light that only they met, both claimed knowledge from a hidden source [Joseph Smith had tablets only he could read, Mohammed took dictation when he supposedly couldn't write], and both were started with the premise that the Christian had messed up Jesus' teachings and they were prophets with a mission to get the Church back on track). So if you meet someone who insists Mormons are Christian, tell them, in that case, Muslims are Christian.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
...(both were aproached by beings of light that only they met, both claimed knowledge from a hidden source [Joseph Smith had tablets only he could read, Mohammed took dictation when he supposedly couldn't write],...
Basically the same thing applies to every other religion ever invented, including yours, if you have one.
Of course, the fundamentalist wack jobs of whatever particular religion see that in all other religions, but ignore it regarding their own.
This is one of the major problems with fundamentalism. The people who buy into it are incapable of dealing with reality. They can see the problems with everybody else's beliefs, but even though the problems with their own are essentially identical to those they see in others, they freak out and lose all rational capability when you point this out to them.
So Mormons are at least as good of Christians as any fundamentalist wacko branch. The Mormons I know are better people (and better Christians) than any fundamentalist I've ever met. All these gay hating, forcing prayer in the schools, institute religious law in America, psychopaths have no freaking clue what the hell the person they claim to follow even said, or they would realise when he said not to do all that crazy hatred bullshit that he was talking specifically to them and the rest of their ilk.
the rules of priesthood will always encourage this type of behavior
The rules of priesthood have existed for thousands of years. The pedophilia only existed a few decades. Tell me again how the one encourages the other?
Oh, and ignore the fact that you're more likely to be abused by a camp councilor or Protestant minister than you are a Catholic priest.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.