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SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits
AlanS2002 sends in a link from a local Utah newspaper covering the SCO-IBM trial. The Deseret News chose to emphasize SCO's claim that IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet. "[A]n attorney for Lindon-based SCO said IBM 'pressured' companies to cut off their relationships with SCO. And 'the effect on SCO was devastating and it was immediate'..." As usual Groklaw has chapter and verse on all the arguments in the motions for summary judgement.
Isn't that what competition is about? Taking business from competitors?
I fear the Y2038 bug
Probably SCO should have thought about this before suing IBM for billions of dollars (with fake claims.)
You can't handle the truth.
The theme "not our fault". When will these jokers die? Wasn't it SCO suing it's own customers that might have had something to do with their profit loss? Or their millions spent on flimsy legal activities? Might it have been... oh what's the point, it is all too ridiculous anymore. There's just about nothing that can be said that hasn't not been said ad infinitum already. This stuff almost doesn't rate as 'news' anymore, just another spewing forth from the absurd. The news will be when this is over and their corpse rotting.
Can we call this one a dead horse and move on?
SCO did plenty of hurt to their own selves when they fired letter-shots across the bow of companies using Linux.
After they're done with this suit, they will sue IBM for messing up their restrooms, for parking in the wrong spots, for eating greasy food while looking at their legal documents, for IBM laywers not wiping their feet before entering SCO on rainy days, for sneazing colds around, etc. etc. etc.
Table-ized A.I.
Oh the irony! The master blamed of copying his most brilliant student ways. Who do you think taught Microsoft to behave like that?
IBM hurt the relationship between SCO and other people by fighting SCO's copyright suit. By fighting the copyright suit, it pissed off many people who decided to move away from SCO lest they may be sued in a few years.
Fight Spammers!
I'm sure the impact on their business had nothing to do with them frothing at the mouth and raving like a pack of lunatics since 2003 while threatening to sue their own customers over using Linux.
Nope, not a bit.
It, like Groklaw, must all be part of a Scientology-level conspiracy by IBM to discredit them and make them look bad.
*sigh*
Sanity is a sandbox. I prefer the swings.
Despite the daily press conferences, SCO never came up with any evidence to support their claims. They did briefly claim copyright infringement on a specific piece of code only to have the claim shot down within hours when the original author was tracked down.
While all of that was going on, blogs all over the tech world spouted off about how lousy SCO's products were, how there are better alternatives, and how SCO appeared to be running a pump-and-dump scheme to swindle investors just before the company finally died.
Their quarter filings looked rather dim as well. They didn't even have enough funds to pay for their own lawsuit. That is until Microsoft came along and gave them a huge infusion of cash in return for something Microsoft had no use for. This reinforced the idea that the daily press conferences truly were nothing more than FUD.
SCO encountered even more troubles with an SEC investigation and the deaths of two key board members who both shot themselves in the head.
If you were a SCO customer watching all of this, would you stick with their product?
The Deseret News is nothing but a rag, I've lived in Utah for years and I don't think I've ever seen them report anything well and timely. The Deseret News will support anything Mormon or Utah over other religions and states, don't bother reading.
Do a little research on "Amdahl". You'll learn very quickly how IBM used to treat competitors, back in the age of big iron, long before Microsoft was even a gleam in Bill Gates' eye. Sure, they've "re-invented" themselves in the past couple decades but we're still talking about Big Blue. SCO would have been better off tangling with the IRS.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Since when was IBM responsible for SCO's profits?
SCO Xenix cough Openserver has the been the worst unix out on the market for almost 20 years and Caldera's Openlinux lite sucked goatballs. Old sco has the opportunity to make Openserver more like Solaris, AIX, and Linux for over 2 decades but decided to make it stagnant for decades.
Worse SCO intentionally crippled its product by not having standard components like a TCP/IP stack unless of course you pay $1200 or something outrageous. No gnu tools, no debuggers, no well just about anything to troubleshoot a dying sco.
But it seems IBM hurt SCO not by endoring Linux but SCO's crappy linux distro and lottery ticket. Darl McBride won over $26 million personally from the disk compression lawsuit from MS that was included with DOS 6. I think he wanted the same thing to happen with Linux and they were hoping old sco would provide. Bad move.
SCO has itself to blame and they could have been the next redhat or maybe sun if old sco actually improved their os 20 years ago. Its time it died like other companies who made poor business decisions.
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SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits
Good.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
SCO would have been better off tangling with the IRS.
Uhm, what makes you think they haven't?
Who is John Cabal?
Big businesses do not own massive climate controlled rooms filled with panties. We hope.
"No one likes working in a hamster wheel, and your shop smells of cedar shavings from here." - TaleSpinner
Sorry, I tuned out everything after "SCO says..."
I thought it was because theysued their own customers.
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Your posting to slashdot, and u have a 4 digit uid. You will never have children, as that requires interaction on an intimate level with a member of the opposite sex.
More likely your home made robotic shark with freakin lasers will read about the SCO debacle in soviet russia as they welcome their new beowulf cluster overlords running linux.
You shall know him by his Sig
- An OS that hasn't be updated in forever
- Absolutely no native software
- A decent chance of being sued by SCO for no real reason.
- A decent chance of being sued by IBM or someone in the Linux world for using software that SCO distributed in violation of the GPL
- An absolute lack of techies with experience in your platform
- The 50% "conscience" bonus you need to pay your admins to work with SCO
I'm moving my servers to SCO today!!Screw you, I have PLENTY of intimate interactions with members of the opposite sex! Sure, they usually aren't aware of it, but still . . . :P
So, they started with:
1. License Linux for $699 a-piece
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Then it turned into:
1. ???
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
And now, finally it's:
1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
IBM is not the only company to squeeze others for their profit. They killed Amdahl out of greed. They've done that in the software and hardware business many times over. It's not like IBM is an angel.
For those of you who remember, it was not too long ago when Microsoft was the champion of freedom and IBM was the tyrannical oppressor.
Microsoft is often bashed about this very same practice, squeezing PC makers to ship machines pre-installed with windows "otherwise....", however, don't forget the hundreds of other companies that resort to similar unethical behavior.
That said, SCO asked for it. They are getting shafted and they only have themselves to blame. This time, I am all for IBM. When it comes to fscking with open source and Linux, take no prisoners and spare no quarter.
I have a 4-digit UID and seven grandchildren, you insensitive clod!