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SCO Relies On IBM-donated Servers With Groklaw
Technician writes "It appears that SCO and Groklaw have the exact same tie to IBM: the ibiblio service. 'An eagle-eyed Groklaw ninja, sk43, has spotted an ftp site where you can get binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers who use lxrun. But you can't get the source code from that sco.com ftp site. SCO directs their customers to .... sunsite.unc.edu. Why bless my stars, sunsite.unc.edu is the old name for what is now ibiblio!'"
Anyone else getting that old-junior-high-school drama vibe?
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Did you hear about Becky? She's been with Dave.
Dave! But Dave's been seeing Sarah.
Dude that's my sister.
Well she's hot.
Shut up.
Cue the collective sigh from the rest of
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Did you even read the entire Groklaw article? The whole reason this was posted is in response to this totally asinine Information Week Article headline:
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IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw
(See http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.j
Basically, Information Week and some asshat reporter named Paul McDougall tried to smear Pamela Jones by suggesting IBM was behind Groklaw because Groklaw is hosted on ibiblio. Well, so is a shitload of other stuff, including support files for SCO OpenWare.
Read the SCOG complaint ...
... "In fact, most of the servers on which Groklaw.net and other ibiblio publications run are hosted on IBM-donated servers. IBM's support of ibiblio is, according to the project's director, continuing in nature."
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-1018.pdf
In that motions, SCOG make the claim
OK, so groklaw simply points out that SCOG material is found amongst the "other ibiblio publications", and the entire SCOG motion is easily exposed as the utter nonsense it truly is.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200704032 33141649
Exhibit 15 and 16 as offered by SCO are about Ibiblio supporting Groklaw. This isn't just about an Information week article - this is evidence SCO is offering to the court.
Sco is using this as evidence IN COURT that IBM is supporting Groklaw. Now we see that SCO is supported by Ibiblio (and therefore IBM, by SCO logic). This nullifies pretty much any benefit these exhibits would be for SCO.
I would say IBM has bet the farm on Linux. Otherwise, the case might have been over long ago.
As far as anyone can tell, SCO brought the suit in hopes that IBM would buy them to shut them up. A few people would have made a lot of money and they could move along to the next scam. The trouble was that IBM, having bet the aforementioned farm, needed Linux to be unencumbered by any taint of anyone else's IP. So, IBM has defended Linux vigorously and when it's all over nobody will doubt that Linux is as pure as the driven snow. As Machiavelli pointed out, you don't send half your army into a battle that will determine your whole fate.
So, no, it's not just drama.
Except they aren't paying peanuts.
SCO didn't just pick some random lawyers out of the phone book. One of the firms has Kevin McBride as a partner. Last name sound familiar? Kevin is the brother of SCO's CEO Darl McBride. In my paranoid (yet possibly true) ravings, part of SCO's plan has alway been to funnel part of the money to their friends and relatives in these law firms. Grab as much as they can for themselves, send the rest to friends as legal fees, and leave as little as possible for the damages that they'll be forced to pay once the farce is over.
On the other hand, this monkey shit is exactly what the lawyers are getting paid for. Not to win the case, not even to make valid legal point--only to draw the case out as long as possible. SCO isn't trying to win, just to get more money out of the market. (Does Microsoft pay "licensing fees" based on how long SCO keeps up the FUD about the legality of OSS?)
didnt beleive it .. so i did it myself .. .. so lest see :
.. IBM is hosting the SCO's investors relations ..
.. conspiracy theories are surfacing that :)
ir.sco.com is the investors relations website for SCO
well ok
ric@ric ~ $ host ir.sco.com
ir.sco.com is an alias for cald.client.shareholder.com.
cald.client.shareholder.com is an alias for webcenter360.shareholder.com.
webcenter360.shareholder.com has address 170.224.5.57
ric@ric ~ $ whois 170.224.5.57
OrgName: IBM
OrgID: IBM-1
Address: 3039 Cornwallis Road
City: Research Triangle Park
StateProv: NC
PostalCode: 27709-2195
Country: US
So
website
errr
IBM actually owns SCO
ROFL