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SCO to Unix developers, We want you back
NoGuffCheck writes "CRN is reporting that Darl McBride is looking to get Unix developers back onboard with cash incentives for completing training in SCO's new mobile application kit; EdgeBuilder. It doesn't stop there; there's a 12-cylinder BMW or $100,000 dollars for the development of the best wireless application."
RTFA. The article says 10 cylinders -- not 12. That's probably the svelte M5.
No, it's a clone of Unix, and it is no longer designed only for Intel chips. It was originally designed just for the 386, but now runs on anything, including your toaster.
What the hell is a "biztone"?! Is it some sort of ringtone for your cell phone where instead of ringing it goes, "Yeah, um, about those TPS reports..."?
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what profits a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his immortal soul ;)
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I think it adequately informs Daryl of the industry's opinion of him and his company.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
File chapter 11 and liquidate those assets already.
I always thought that chapter 11 was "reorganization" and chapter 7 was "liquidation"
Dear SCO:
We don't like you. You don't play well with the other children on the playground. We think you're mean and we're not going to let you play dodgeball with us at recess.
Besides that, your products are pretty awful. The only redeeming quality of Caldera Linux was that it was based on RedHat. That made it really easy to completely dump your distribution and go to RedHat when you guys got out of the Linux game. Your OpenServer product is the the most god awful piece of crap ever sold. It's so painful to work on that I'd rather just gouge out my eyes with a spoon.
Please just go away.
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The article clearly states it's a 10-cylinder bimmer, not a V12
What I would like to know is why is HP & MySQL helping to finance this?!? What a way to get company blacklisted - especially a GPL project.
/. that MySQL is giving any aid or comfort to the enemy before I started modifying my opinion of the company or their software.
I looked at TFA, the SCO contest site, the SCO site, and NONE of it said MySQL or HP was sponsoring this contest. It did say there would be MySQL and HP training at the SCO forum, but that doesn't mean that the training is provided by or sponsored by those companies.
SCO is trying to promote its alternative to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with SCAMP (SCO, Apache, etc.). But because it can easily acquire and redistribute all of these components under the GPL and even offer its own support and training for them, it can make things look official when they're really not.
I'd need some more evidence than an unsupported post on
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It's actually a BMW M5, which has got a V10 engine. The article summary is wrong.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
In order to get that car you need to sign a contract with SCO. Any code you develop belongs to SCO because any code that runs on unix is a derivative work. Oh and Contracts are what you use againist your friends.
Yes SCO is claiming such things in both the court of public opinion and sometimes in the court as well.
Any laid off developer would be better off collecting unemployment and staying out of SCO's lawyers reach.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
It what way do you mean "free fall" when speaking of SCO's stock price?
SCO's stock is currently at $4.30, which is about where it has been since the the climax that occurred in 2004. Today's stock price is almost smack dab in the middle between the 52 week high and the 52 week low and today's trading volume so far has been 250 shares. Current price is the same as it was when it opened today. I would call this the doldrums rather than a "free fall". Large amounts of SCO's stock is held by a very few number of people and few outsiders want to buy any, which means that the stock trading volume is generally very low and the price is steady. I wonder if there is anything, short of losing two appeals after losing to IBM, that will significantly impact SCO's stock price.
Israeli intelligence has come up with some interesting applications for cellphones. Is that wireless enough?
It's Shrewsbury, actually. Although I doubt there's anyone there anymore to get offended. I don't know what's in Digital's old building, but they're long gone from that area, as are most of the old Boston-based minicomputer companies. (Data General, Prime...so many others.)
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Doesn't seem unlikely given that they entered into an agreement with them last year, as reported on Slashdot and elsewhere. The news release about that is on the MySQL site.
I'd need some more evidence than an unsupported post on /. that MySQL is giving any aid or comfort to the enemy before I started modifying my opinion of the company or their software.
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Here you go:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article
"Seek first to understand." - Socrates
iirc, it was SCO who paid mysql money for them to support SCO users, not the other way around.
Right. I went back and read TFA, and Mysql is NOT sponsoring this. Neither is HP. They are offering Mysql and HP "training," and smearing those company's names in the eyes of those who don't read carefully enough (the poster I replied to, and myself to name two).
I stand corrected: Again, MYSQL and HP are NOT Sponsors of SCO's laughable ploy, and probably have nothing whatsoever (or as little as possible) to do with SCO.
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You are mostly correct. Chapter 7 bankruptcy is generally a controlled liquidation of the entire company (Ch. 7 also applies to certain personal bankruptcy cases). Chapter 11 is the "reorganization" chapter, where in theory, firms divest themselves of underperforming businesses, restructure their debt and return lean and mean. However, there are Chapter 11 cases where all of the assets of the business are sold in bulk, which looks a lot like a liquidation.
Of course, this theory doesn't really reflect much of what goes on in the Bankruptcy Courts, but that is another discussion.
Here you go. Just click on the "Sponsors" tab.
of the SCO conference... see http://www.caldera.com/2006forum/index_flash.html and click on 'Sponsors'. So at the very least, MySQL AB is sponsoring SCO's conference
Quote from TFA:
> To draw Unix developers back into its embrace, SCO is offering cash incentives for
> developers to attend its upcoming user group conference in Las Vegas in August.
Quote from promotional materials for the above user group conference:
> SCO and MySQL AB have teamed to create the ideal applications platform SMB and
> replicated/branch enterprise computing environments. With SCO and MySQL, you gain the
> competitive advantages offered by both open standards and open source.
MySQL AB is listed as a 'Gold' sponsor and the preceding is the copy for that placement.
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Darl -
Hi, its Paul. You don't remember me because you weren't associated with SCO at the time, but I was an SCO developer and beta tester 'back in the day'. I ran a public access SCO UNIX system in Philadelphia. I (helped) run the UNIX SIG on CompuServe and converted a bunch of applications so they ran on SCO platforms. On the commercial side, SCO UNIX ran construction management and engineering procurement software for a $500MM project (it no longer runs on SCO).
Not any more, Darl. That ship has sailed. I'm a 50 year old, bald, bearded engineer and I'm mad as hell at you Darl. I will do anything in my power to make sure you fail. I grep'ed through old source code just to find prior art (and I still have source from 1984).
I'm not alone Darl. We are the decision makers now. Money and cars don't cut it. Your goin' down, Darl, and the harder the better.
Your pal,
Paul
I won't post the link, because SCO shouldn't boast "users" because of this, however.....
.Net and Java development platforms, having developed on those platforms. You must be able to demonstrate proficiency with these platform languages and may be asked to submit an example of Java application you or your company has developed."
Some nice items:
"You must be a qualified developer with the
So, they can say you are not qualified because they have given no criteria about what is or what is not qualified.
You need this much machine:
"a. Memory 768MB, HIGHLY recommend 1GB plus
b. Windows XP Pro or Windows 2003 server (Windows XP Home will not work)
c. Processor speed - faster the better, at minimum should be Pentium (P4 class) 1.8 - 2.0GHz plus.
d. If firewall software is installed, it must be configurable.
e. Need to be able to disable anti virus software"
This would require having Windows XP Pro or 2K3 Server, no thanks.
It would cost more than $1000 to get to vegas, stay at a hotel, make sure you have the software & hardware needed.
So, $1000? Not worth it.
I've never heard of any law that says that you are allowed to violate copyrights simply because the product is not commercially available. The copyright holder might not have as much motivation to sue you, since they weren't making money off the product anyway, but you're equally culpable either way.
Yes, the code is out of your reach, but you can redistribute BeOS with relative impugnity.
I believe you are wrong about that. It would be nice if the law worked that way, but AFAIK it doesn't.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I was on fire six weeks ago you insensitive clod; I remember putting out the flames, I remember pulling my hand out of the water, the ten or 15 seconds in between is like they didn't exist.
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Coding was SO much more efficient back then. Today it would take many feet of tape.