I may be wrong. But I thought SCO only owned the System 5 UNIX code and technology. And I'm pretty sure that SYS5 would only work on a uniprocessor machine, and never had a journaling file system.
Sounds like the future has a theme feel of X-Men - 'Mutants are bad' (said in South Park tone) -
I can see a sub race of modified humans clanning together, providing their own education facility, using their advantages over the base human race for promoting good, or pomoting evil...
I wonder how much a retracting claws modification would cost me...
I'm not much of a stock guru. But it looked like 11,962,000 shares outstanding (does that mean ALL the shares of stock SCO has in circulation?). At the last trading amount of $3.10, that's $37,082,200.00. I'd say it would be MUCH cheaper to just buy all of the stock than to settle the $1billion court case.
If SCO really is persuing pissing off IBM to a point where IBM buys them to make them stfu, that could be a pretty decent bonus to the Linux/Unix community.
Consider this - one of the main arguments I've heard M$ use against Unix is it's lack of a 'single directing body'. If SCO would get off their get rich quick through court kick, and instead grow the cahonies to become one of the 'main directing bodies' to drive the Unix world, embrace the open source community, and simply play nice with the software world (not the litigating world - read "lawyers")... well, M$ would no longer have that argument point when approaching foreign countries to adopt Wind'ohs.
If IBM were to buy SCO, they would inherit the 'license' of UNIX as well - thus becoming the 'main directing body'. True, IBM has f'd up lots of software packages in the past (just not as many as CA has), but they would be a much better driving body than SCO has turned out to be...
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I may be wrong. But I thought SCO only owned the System 5 UNIX code and technology. And I'm pretty sure that SYS5 would only work on a uniprocessor machine, and never had a journaling file system.
Or am I completely missing that?
Sounds like the future has a theme feel of X-Men - 'Mutants are bad' (said in South Park tone) -
I can see a sub race of modified humans clanning together, providing their own education facility, using their advantages over the base human race for promoting good, or pomoting evil...
I wonder how much a retracting claws modification would cost me...
Could you imagine what the world would be like today if SCO hadn't had bought UNIX from AT&T, but instead Microsoft bid and won that purchase?
Sure - SCO sucks, the lawsuit sucks, their action will probably do much more harm than ever any good - but it COULD be worse...
I'm not much of a stock guru. But it looked like 11,962,000 shares outstanding (does that mean ALL the shares of stock SCO has in circulation?). At the last trading amount of $3.10, that's $37,082,200.00. I'd say it would be MUCH cheaper to just buy all of the stock than to settle the $1billion court case.
If SCO really is persuing pissing off IBM to a point where IBM buys them to make them stfu, that could be a pretty decent bonus to the Linux/Unix community.
Consider this - one of the main arguments I've heard M$ use against Unix is it's lack of a 'single directing body'. If SCO would get off their get rich quick through court kick, and instead grow the cahonies to become one of the 'main directing bodies' to drive the Unix world, embrace the open source community, and simply play nice with the software world (not the litigating world - read "lawyers")... well, M$ would no longer have that argument point when approaching foreign countries to adopt Wind'ohs.
If IBM were to buy SCO, they would inherit the 'license' of UNIX as well - thus becoming the 'main directing body'. True, IBM has f'd up lots of software packages in the past (just not as many as CA has), but they would be a much better driving body than SCO has turned out to be...