I actually got a reply back (I'm in Japan, so it appears to have come from their Japanese subsidiary). It's worth a laugh, so I've posted it below:
Thank you for your sending your message. It is unfortunate we can not make joint market for both products. You may understand SCO position from following URL: http://www.sco.com/scosource/
It may not be good explanation for current SCO's action, but like someone would took your technologies, such as some of your xxxx xxxx platform, and included into some software under GPL, then how your company would do. SCO protects SCO's assets of UNIX technologies which SCO owns now, and some of the technologies under UNIX has been included into Linux OS under GPL, so SCO is fighting to recover this situation. Though in Japanese, you can see SCO's Executives interview with Nikkei Electronics on this issue at Nikkei Electronics 10-13-2003 issue Cover Story "SCO's Linux Shock".
I hope you can understand correctly and come back again with us. Our SCO UnixWare product is very reliable and stable UNIX operating system for IA-32 platform and easy port from Sun/Solaris platform. And SCO Authentication product provides the single login system over Sun/Solaris UNIX, IBM AIX, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, and RedHat Linux working with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory. Please visit our SCO Japan web as well at www.jp.sco.com for more information about SCO's products and services in Japan.
Hmmm... "like someone would took your technologies, such as some of your xxxx xxxx platform, and included into some software under GPL, then how your company would do."
Well, I'm sure my company would first be very careful indeed to see whether or not "our" technologies were in fact ours before accusing anybody.
As for "understanding correctly and coming back to SCO" - sorry guys, but YOU FAIL IT!!1!!!
I would like to point you to our product page (http://www.xxxxxxxx.com); we provide xxxx xxxx systems to many large xxxx institutions around the world. Currently, we are based mainly on the Sun/Solaris platform, but are looking at moving to Intel due to customer demand. After considering SCO's products, we have been forced to exclude them due to your court statements regarding the General Public License ("GPL"); specifically, that it is unenforceable. Considering that large parts of your latest products appear to be licensed under the GPL, we find it difficult to reconcile your legal position with the products you claim to supply. Instead, we have decided to go ahead with Red Hat's Advanced Server product.
SATA = Serial ATA, a replacement for the old Parallel ATA. XFS = SGI's high-performance filesystem. CIFS = Common Internet File System, otherwise known as SMB. The Microsoft networked filesystem emulated by Samba. A misnomer in that it isn't generally used over the Internet (except for worms, ha ha).
An anonymous reader writes "Alex King has just had his site reduced to smoking cinders. It had some nice photos and comparisons to the Treo 300, but now it's been totally destroyed."
Well, if you read the article, you'd see he mentioned at the bottom how nobody on bugtraq came forward with a real-world problem that required itojun's fix.
I mean, itojun's a great guy and all, but he ain't God.
If anything, I'd say he's biased the other way, with his continuous digs at "that other OS", where all the package systems are crap and the developers are a bunch of wild hooligans who spew untested and broken code into the kernel.
- The tripled-insect character is not "made up"; it's a genuine kanji. - "Yanma" is just another word for dragonfly. - "Hamushi" is often used as a general term for beetle. - "Koyashi" means manure or fertilizer; in this case, 'feed' might be a better translation. - Both the fox and the badger are cunning animals in Japanese folklore.
What do you mean, "higher than the original"? The original voicetrack for Porco Rosso was brilliant - Moriyama Shuichiro did a great job as Porco Rosso, and Kato Tokiko (a singer rather than a voice actor) not only sung the title song, but also voiced one of the characters.
I know you're a troll, but just to put the record straight, both Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away marked some of the highest ratings ever when they were broadcast on TV in Japan.
It's funny how many retarded non-jokes certain people make about how (in this case) Chinese speakers can't pronounce the letter 'l', seeing as how that's actually a problem for the Japanese, rather than the Chinese, and also seeing as how there's a whole shitload of sounds in Chinese that are difficult for English speakers to pronounce correctly.
Yeah, yeah. So I'm a hypocrite, sue me;) Looking back on it now, the funny thing is that any personal information that/. may try to use is so riddled with people called "Fecal Troll" or "Penis Bird Man" that it's essentially useless...
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See the actual reply I got back here.
I actually got a reply back (I'm in Japan, so it appears to have come from their Japanese subsidiary).
It's worth a laugh, so I've posted it below:
Thank you for your sending your message.
It is unfortunate we can not make joint market for both products.
You may understand SCO position from following URL:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/
It may not be good explanation for current SCO's action, but like someone
would took your technologies, such as some of your xxxx xxxx platform,
and included into some software under GPL, then how your company
would do. SCO protects SCO's assets of UNIX technologies which SCO owns
now, and some of the technologies under UNIX has been included into Linux
OS under GPL, so SCO is fighting to recover this situation. Though in
Japanese, you can see SCO's Executives interview with Nikkei Electronics on
this issue at Nikkei Electronics 10-13-2003 issue Cover Story "SCO's Linux
Shock".
I hope you can understand correctly and come back again with us.
Our SCO UnixWare product is very reliable and stable UNIX operating system
for IA-32 platform and easy port from Sun/Solaris platform.
And SCO Authentication product provides the single login system over
Sun/Solaris UNIX, IBM AIX, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, and RedHat Linux working with
Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory.
Please visit our SCO Japan web as well at www.jp.sco.com for more
information about SCO's products and services in Japan.
Hmmm... "like someone would took your technologies, such as some of your xxxx xxxx platform, and included into some software under GPL, then how your company would do."
Well, I'm sure my company would first be very careful indeed to see whether or not "our" technologies were in fact ours before accusing anybody.
As for "understanding correctly and coming back to SCO" - sorry guys, but YOU FAIL IT!!1!!!
I would like to point you to our product page (http://www.xxxxxxxx.com); we provide xxxx xxxx systems to many large xxxx institutions around the world. Currently, we are based mainly on the Sun/Solaris platform, but are looking at moving to Intel due to customer demand.
After considering SCO's products, we have been forced to exclude them due to your court statements regarding the General Public License ("GPL"); specifically, that it is unenforceable. Considering that large parts of your latest products appear to be licensed under the GPL, we find it difficult to reconcile your legal position with the products you claim to supply. Instead, we have decided to go ahead with Red Hat's Advanced Server product.
Sincerely yours,
XXXX YYYY
ZZZZZ Co., Ltd.
They do after I stir-fry them with a bit of Thai fish sauce.
SATA = Serial ATA, a replacement for the old Parallel ATA.
XFS = SGI's high-performance filesystem.
CIFS = Common Internet File System, otherwise known as SMB. The Microsoft networked filesystem emulated by Samba. A misnomer in that it isn't generally used over the Internet (except for worms, ha ha).
Apologies. I forgot about the non-straight members of the audience.
Wasting his time. When you come down to it, it's really the only thing you have which is truly yours to waste, isn't it?
They think they're doing a good dead
What a peculiarly apposite spelling mistake.
Could we please have a War on Stupidity?
Oh, that's right - these "War on X" things don't actually work, so what's the point?
That should be fslf.org, you heretic.
Open Source is a tool of Satan! Only Free Software can show you the true path to salvation!
Yeah, but no women make it in, since they're not perfect enough as geeks.
Nice ;) You had me going for a moment there...
You mean you're wasting 7KB of precious disk space?
/bin/cat*
$ ls -l `which cat`
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 9388 Jul 16 1997
That should read:
An anonymous reader writes "Alex King has just had his site reduced to smoking cinders. It had some nice photos and comparisons to the Treo 300, but now it's been totally destroyed."
Well, if you read the article, you'd see he mentioned at the bottom how nobody on bugtraq came forward with a real-world problem that required itojun's fix.
I mean, itojun's a great guy and all, but he ain't God.
A GbE NIC is pointless if you don't have the bandwidth on the bus to use it.
If anything, I'd say he's biased the other way, with his continuous digs at "that other OS", where all the package systems are crap and the developers are a bunch of wild hooligans who spew untested and broken code into the kernel.
Looking at your "Notes and Reflections" page:
- The tripled-insect character is not "made up"; it's a genuine kanji.
- "Yanma" is just another word for dragonfly.
- "Hamushi" is often used as a general term for beetle.
- "Koyashi" means manure or fertilizer; in this case, 'feed' might be a better translation.
- Both the fox and the badger are cunning animals in Japanese folklore.
What do you mean, "higher than the original"? The original voicetrack for Porco Rosso was brilliant - Moriyama Shuichiro did a great job as Porco Rosso, and Kato Tokiko (a singer rather than a voice actor) not only sung the title song, but also voiced one of the characters.
I know you're a troll, but just to put the record straight, both Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away marked some of the highest ratings ever when they were broadcast on TV in Japan.
It's funny how many retarded non-jokes certain people make about how (in this case) Chinese speakers can't pronounce the letter 'l', seeing as how that's actually a problem for the Japanese, rather than the Chinese, and also seeing as how there's a whole shitload of sounds in Chinese that are difficult for English speakers to pronounce correctly.
It's best chalked up to Red propaganda and left at that.
Hey, the '50s called; they want their prejudices back.
You're just bitter because you're more of a sellout than we are ;)
Yeah, yeah. So I'm a hypocrite, sue me ;) /. may try to use is so riddled with people called "Fecal Troll" or "Penis Bird Man" that it's essentially useless...
Looking back on it now, the funny thing is that any personal information that
I told you that we should never have gone along with user registration!