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SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com)

Posted by timothy on from the best-served-cold dept.

JG0LD writes with this news from Network World: A breach-of-contract and copyright lawsuit filed nearly 13 years ago by a successor company to business Linux vendor Caldera International against IBM may be drawing to a close at last, after a U.S. District Court judge issued an order in favor of the latter company earlier this week.
Here's the decision itself (PDF). Also at The Register.

9 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Finally! by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Funny

    Burn the remnants of SCO and then stir the ashes.

    1. Re:Finally! by haruchai · · Score: 5, Funny

      dump into the biggest volcano you can find, then nuke it until there's nothing left but ...wait...for...it...a caldera.

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      Pain is merely failure leaving the body
    2. Re:Finally! by beheaderaswp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Trap their souls on electronic tape and send them to watch bad pop psych movies and bad science fiction.

      Call it the wall of fire... or Incident 1.

      Then make it a religion.

      --
      Another consultant who stuck it out.

      "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
  2. Paraside Lost by epine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere buried in all of this was an opportunity for Netcraft to finally be right about something. Maybe that story has yet to surface, and will appear all in due course in tomorrow's feed bag.

  3. Re:Geez, it's like clamydia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Double-tap to the head

    Lawyers routinely survive this and go on to more career success. See previous instructions re fire, acid, sun, black hole.

    Q: Why do they user lawyers as lab rats now?

    A: There are some things the rats simply won't do.

  4. License fee by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Boy, do I feel like an idiot for paying my $699 License Fee to SCO.

  5. Re:Open source SCO by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever used SCO?

    I have. It wasn't a bad system. I didn't like it as well as Solaris, but it was stable and reliable and pretty well documented. For a long time, they had a good product and supported it pretty well.

    It was kind of like Debian stable but not nearly as cutting edge.

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    Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
  6. And... Emacs Wins!!!! by mysidia · · Score: 3, Funny

    And... Emacs Wins, Vi loses!!!!

    Oops, sorry... wrong battle.

  7. Xinuos owns SCO Assets by meburke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many of my customers are still using SCO Open Desktop. For new licenses and users I now deal with XINUOS http://www.xinuos.com/ . They acquired the assets of SCO from the bankruptcy proceedings. They are pretty good people to deal with. The best part is that I can use the same platform that I have used since 1981 when I was supporting AT&T 3B2 computers (with technical upgrades, of course). Open Desktop is the name of the System V 3.2 architecture. It is now time to stop denigrating SCO (the OS) and see it as a viable commercial alternative to Linux or xxxBSD, and is a stable, strongly usable platform for getting actual work done.

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    "The mind works quicker than you think!"