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Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean
rm69990 writes "In a recently unsealed email in the SCO vs. IBM case, it appears that an outside consultant, hired by SCO in 2002, failed to find copyright violations in the Linux Kernel. This was right around the time Darl McBride, who has before been hired by litigious companies as CEO, was hired. It appears that before SCO even began its investigation, they were hoping to find a smoking gun, not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. Apparently, they ignored the advice of this consultant."
No, it's not interesting. Do you expect everyone at Cessna to fly to work? Everyone at LL Bean to live in a tent? Just because your company makes a product doesn't mean that everybody at the company should use it for all purposes.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
"Any of the following alternatives is infinitely better:
-Windows XP, 2003, etc
-MacOS X
-BSD under any form"
If you weren't such neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie and obvious M$ fanboy with your head tuck firmly up your ass, you wouldn't have made the 2 erroneous statements above:
1) Windows XP, 2003, etc are better than Linux? In Bizarro World, maybe. We'll just assume you're high on crack.
2) OSX is BSD you ignorant little prick! Which negates you having to use it in the list, when you state "BSD under any form"
[flame war on] Windows in any form is a bloated piece crap! [/flame war on]
Linux Commonly distributed on 4-8 CD's and up Packaged with 143 different text-editors that all do the same thing (ya... no matter how you cut it, they all edit text and save it to a file). 56 webbrowsers, 14 different word processors, and a thousand different games, servers, and various other little programs that a user MIGHT need at any point durring their use of the OS, because as we all know... the average user won't be able to get anything to work that wasn't installed with the OS. Windows... 1 CD & 30minute install on a slow machine Easy partitioning that requires only a single partition. Maybe not the best way to do it, but the way that makes the most sense from any normal human's pov. 1 slim text editor (notepad) 1 slim word-processor (wordpad) 1 calculator (calc) 1 crappy paint program that is being slowly phased out 1 peice of software to do one job... Each of them are minimalist. If you need more software, there's downloads available. They can be installed quickly because you just double click them. As long as most major linux distro's come in the form of 4-8 (and up) CDs (isos), one or several DVDs... I don't wanna hear anything about Windows being bloated. Unless you want to use a useless operating system that boots off of a floppy or usb-keychain.
All these people who write anti-Linux rants like that chap did clearly have never used it. Linux needs work - there still isn't a great GUI for it yet, it needs a migration-from-Windows package, etc, etc. - but it certainly isn't "shit." On the other hand it isn't "the shit" yet either, but I keep hoping that will change as time goes by. Malleus Dei, satisified *nix user since 1975
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