SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again

phands writes "SCO has moved to partially reopen their 10 year old lawsuit against IBM. Unbelievable! Details at Groklaw." From the article, quoting SCO's filing: "SCO respectfully requests that the Court rule on IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Unfair Competition Claim (SCO’s Sixth Cause of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 782), which motion is directed at the Project Monterey Claim, and IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Interference Claims (SCO’s Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 783), which motion is directed at the Tortious Interference Claims."

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Re:License fee

[hedwards]

I'm pretty sure that cock-smoking teabaggers only run Windows. Them other OSes be soshulist inventshuns.

Linux was badly designed

[Paul Fernhout]

Linux was designed badly from a big picture perspective, which is why I never wanted to use it in the first place over a decade ago, but I did anyway in the end for social reasons (things can be useful, even when you know what a mess they are designwise comapred to what they could have been). Linux's design prioritized raw machine processing efficiency over human efficiency -- to begin with, by having a monolithic kernel. That mindset flowed into other applications, but the example was set by the kernel. So software ran a little faster -- but only when it ran, and it often did not for one random breakage or other. And kernel maintainers have said they could care less how much suffering they cause other programmers by incompatible changes (which they probably would not have had so many without being monolithic as well as not message-passing-oriented). UNIX was already obsolete when it was cloned compared to QNX, NeXT, BEOS, and so on. And Smalltalk still had a better model in many ways from the very start decades ago (message passing, virtualization in terms of a VM). Even just Forth might have been a much better model than Linux for a kernel and a module system.

Anyway, I've been using computers for thirty years (since the KIM-1) so I'm agreeing with you. And I'm mostly using Macs these days -- even though I'd rather use some really cool virtualized thing based around message passing (maybe Squeak-ish someday).

Still, for many people it is still fun, so things keep going. And "worse is better" up to a point, especially when driven by social adoption and related job opportunities. Sad.

Still Ubuntu these days seems to have rounded off many of the sharp corners of GNU/Linux (at least 10.04).