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Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
blackbearnh writes "Last week, the net was all abuzz with speculation that SCO was finally gone and done for. With the final judgment in SCO v. Novell in, and SCO millions of dollars in the hole to Novell, it seemed like the fat lady had finally sung. But like most things in the legal system, it isn't nearly that simple. O'Reilly Media sought out Groklaw's Pamela Jones, and got a rundown of what's still alive, and why a final end to the madness may be many years away. 'Summing up, it looks bleak for SCO at the moment, but let's enter the alternate realm of SCO's best-case scenario in its dreams: in that realm, SCO wins on appeal, which one of SCO's lawyers indicated might take a year and a half or five years, and the case is sent back to Utah for trial by jury, which is what SCO wanted (as opposed to trial by judge, which is what it got), then everything listed above (except for the IPO class action) comes alive again, presumably, depending on what the appellate court decides. Then SCO is in position once again to go after Linux end users, as well as IBM, et al.'"
WTF is up with the userpage! It was bad I get slapped with the dumbass firehose-with-Idle's-stylesheet, but now I don't even have a tab for my comments.
If I want Firehose, I'll go to to Firehose. (I don't, and wont)
If I want Idle, I'll go to Idle. (I don't, and wont)
If I want my userpage to be a clean, simple and informative interface, I'll click on my username in the upper right. Oh wait, I can't!
If you want to dick around with the userpage, fine. Just give me a checkbox that says "opt out of this crapfest" like you did with the index and comments.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
I agree. They can only keep this going with money. They don't have any, so it's not going to be five more years of crapola.
SCO is dead.
SCO have become what was suggested to them, a company that only does legal action. The employees and directors are getting paid well during this time.
Other companies who like the idea of Linux in a quagmire have provided money for 'licences', and will continue to do so.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
they are worse than Cylons. They seem to be "killable", but keep replicating. Hell, they don't even improve models. You need to find the Resurrection Ship and put a nuke in its colon.... preferably making it a HUGE swollen colon, that no deep space Ben-Gay nor Preparation H can favorabley re-sequence...
SCO should be SCO^3, which could stand for: "Self-Contained Organism, Secreting Copies Over Secret Channel Outputs"
Or, SCO could be a tag/jingle for: "Semi-Conjugative Ogres: Screwing Companies Over"
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
After years of hearing about their BS tactics, trying to sue all sorts of businesses, I don't even know what they do anymore. I'm partly joking, but you rarely hear anything about them beyond court cases. Usually, you hear about a company doing something dumb/stupid for a while, then you hear about some product they are releasing or something new they are doing; you know, like companies that provide a service or a product. Not with SCO. I just don't understand how any company like that could ever expect new customers or continued contracts with any dignity. I know they shot themselves in the foot so many times, but most companies I've seen do this in the past are at least worked on something substantial while lawsuits continue. end rant
When I consider SCO, the single digit that comes to mind is not the number *one*...
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Jeesus, some people (like whomever modded me off-topic) just hate to have (or let others in on) fun. Don't you realize that LAUGHING or helping someone laugh is a lot more healthier than disparaging a single person? Not as if i'm a politician with so much power over others that i MUST be under scrutiny for the good of the public.
I thought i was being funny. Maybe YOU don't know the issues of facebook for f/b users who hated "their" view of their profiles changing. There is a parallel here.
Besides, last week i saw to my dismay, LOTS of what qualified as "redundant" comments -- as many as 20 in a sub-200-comment topic -- and virtually NONE was marked redundant. This tells me i have one or more foes who sign up looking to slam-dunk/grind or agitate people.
Slashdot's moderation systems asks people to concentrate on being positive. Apparently, slashdot doesn't seem to track and reign in people who "stalk" or abuse karma/moderation points.
If i am so worthy of being bitch-slapped/fucked with and having my scores capriciously capped, slashed and turned from a positive rating/description to redundant/off-topic/troll, then WHY is my Karma never changing. Is that, too, another issue with Slashdot's karma and scoring systems? That could very well BE why these pages are being reshuffled. Maybe slashdot's core controllers are finally sick and tired of cowardly stalkers who never get listed as foe/hater, and gleefully do damage to people.
I virtually NEVER attack specific people here. I don't mod people, mainly because MY sense of humor often is at variance with others', and so, who am i to say what IS humor to a broad spectrum of readers here. It makes me feel good, and my day a few notches better when someone takes their time to comment back and on the occasion when they mod me up, or at least find some way to avoid undercutting me. Undercutting is, to me, a vindictive, petty way to suppress someone, literally censor them, by forcing others to have to read below -1 just to sleuth out player-hate victims.
This isn't a grouse: it's what i see/feel going on. I at first hated the new layouts, and to some extent thought the previous was better, but now, if the long range goal is to bury player haters, i whole-heartedly hope VA/slash adopt a player-hater tracker!
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Has anyone seen an actual install of an SCO product in recent years? I mean a real, live, in production server running SCO Open Server?
HOLY FUCK! As if the new user page weren't bad enough, it mixes the classic green color scheme with whatever the theme is for the current subdomain, if you happen to be on one. You thought http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName looked bad? Check out http://yro.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName or http://games.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName or http://it.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName!!!!!
Orange links on green? My eyes! Ze googles, zey do nossing!
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
'Nuff said. Except it's not enough because this sorry excuse for a redesign is still there. Oh, god, it's like a 15 year old with no concept of color got let loose with FrontPage and wanted to do a MySpace lookalike but without the same professionalism and restraint.