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SCO Relies On IBM-donated Servers With Groklaw

Posted by Zonk on from the come-together-right-now dept.

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!'"

5 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Stupidest SCO article ever. by SashaMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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:

    IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw

    (See http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=198100504)

    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.

  2. A very good illustration of SCOX folly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the SCOG complaint ...

    http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-1018.pdf

    In that motions, SCOG make the claim ... "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."

    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.

  3. Re:Stupidest SCO article ever. by Mistlefoot · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Well actually ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. there's more by hebertrich · · Score: 5, Interesting

    didnt beleive it .. so i did it myself ..
    ir.sco.com is the investors relations website for SCO
    well ok .. so lest see :

    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 .. IBM is hosting the SCO's investors relations
    website ..

    errr .. conspiracy theories are surfacing that
    IBM actually owns SCO :)

    ROFL