I thought SCO had dropped (fumbled?) the IP issue after Novell jumped in? That it's all contract stuff now? ("All over the map" doesn't begin to descibe them.) If so, it's all a matter of what was in the contract. If the contract said that if IBM walked away, they also walked away from the code, then that's what happens. (Although I doubt IBM's lawyers would have signed that.) Without access to the exact contract (and a big team of lawyers to interpret it for us:^) the point is moot at the moment -- although it'll probably resurface at some point in the years ahead. (Yes, I said years.)
A probe 30 years ago almost found life, and in December, another one is going to try again. I guess it was either this or another $COX or spam story.:^)
It's really the RIAA/MPAA backing Microsoft backing SCO. You see, Win is going to have DRM to shut down those evil pirates, and Linux won't -- so Linux has to be stopped! Oh, and the Masons are in on it too. What? Dried frog pills? Certainly, thank you!:^)
What do you see as a company's options in the face of your warning? I would suspend any new Linux-related activities until this is all sorted out. But first get that opinion of your legal counsel. If they say there is no problem and no issue, then you probably have nothing to worry about. But I doubt there is any attorney worth his salt that is going to say there is no potential of an issue here. There is a big issue.
Oh sure, put all development on hold until a huge legal fight winds it way through the courts in a long slow battle. I can just imagine lots of Linux development companies that could afford to do that!
They'd do better to have damage control get the spin-drives back on line and warp out.
I seriously doubt.. that they will work for next to nothing on OSS.
This overlooks that the cost of living/operating a company is much less in India. A small amount of western capital goes a long way. This might actually be a plus for OSS development there.
The higher-rated of the two bulletins includes a patch that fixes four separate vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) software. That alert, rated "important," addresses vulnerabilities that could make servers running the software vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack.
"We definitely want everyone who is running IIS 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 to install the patch," said Microsoft program manager Stephen Toulouse.
You made me look. That line was also in Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome a year later. Don't you think this line would be more on-topic? "Laugha while you can monkey-boy!"
Or just just get him a copy of Peedy, the little Microsoft Agent Character parrot. I prefer Merlin myself. (It's fun to do have a page where Merlin slaps Elron Hubbard in the nose. Not very useful, but fun.) Ahh, that spin-off Microsoft Bob technology!
No, Trek73 was single terminal. This was multi-terminal. It was inspired by Trek73 however. This was on the HP2000 of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal.
Trek73 was available with Slackware in the game library last I looked.
Old news for multi-player games. The best one (done to me) was in 1976. I was playing a starship game on the school board mini. Once in a while the game would glitch and give you control of someone else's ship for one command. Someone I was dueling with got my ship and turned off the shields.
I almost died laughing when I, years later, saw The Wrath of Khan.
Not only will IBM's land sharks bite SCO for claiming to own the rights, but didn't IBM buy a whole company on the basis of those claims to get licencing for AIX?
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I thought SCO had dropped (fumbled?) the IP issue after Novell jumped in? That it's all contract stuff now? ("All over the map" doesn't begin to descibe them.) If so, it's all a matter of what was in the contract. If the contract said that if IBM walked away, they also walked away from the code, then that's what happens. (Although I doubt IBM's lawyers would have signed that.) Without access to the exact contract (and a big team of lawyers to interpret it for us :^) the point is moot at the moment -- although it'll probably resurface at some point in the years ahead. (Yes, I said years.)
A probe 30 years ago almost found life, and in December, another one is going to try again. I guess it was either this or another $COX or spam story. :^)
Can't be a Raelian, he's got way too many lawyers .. must be a $cientologist.
It's really the RIAA/MPAA backing Microsoft backing SCO. You see, Win is going to have DRM to shut down those evil pirates, and Linux won't -- so Linux has to be stopped! Oh, and the Masons are in on it too. What? Dried frog pills? Certainly, thank you! :^)
Why not use their stock symbol $COX?
Check the link in my sig, and scroll down a little. Isn't their UNIX stable enough to handle the load?
Oh sure, put all development on hold until a huge legal fight winds it way through the courts in a long slow battle. I can just imagine lots of Linux development companies that could afford to do that!
They'd do better to have damage control get the spin-drives back on line and warp out.
Uh-huh. I'm sure they spent a lot of time down at the pub conducting much research. :^P
This overlooks that the cost of living/operating a company is much less in India. A small amount of western capital goes a long way. This might actually be a plus for OSS development there.
This news makes me want to go out and have the all-you-can eat buffet at the local Indian food place in celebration!
*sigh* Ah well...
Is McBride related to Commander McBragg? (They've got lyrics for Tux too.)
I wonder how Ray Noorda feels about all of this?
What about a slow steady drop when they haven't released a patch? I bet that would worry them more! :^P
As I recall, the first FUI ads were in the older Mac style.
Is it just me or does anyone else look at those Microsoft banner ads and think "Microsoft's got balls"?
You made me look. That line was also in Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome a year later. Don't you think this line would be more on-topic? "Laugha while you can monkey-boy!"
Or just just get him a copy of Peedy, the little Microsoft Agent Character parrot. I prefer Merlin myself. (It's fun to do have a page where Merlin slaps Elron Hubbard in the nose. Not very useful, but fun.) Ahh, that spin-off Microsoft Bob technology!
Trek73 was available with Slackware in the game library last I looked.
You're a bad user? Whoops, not the right one, but it's kind of close hmmm? ;^)
I almost died laughing when I, years later, saw The Wrath of Khan.
Plenty of hacked moby ships too.
It would be interesting to cruise the Wayback Machine to seem how the claims have changed over the years.
Not only will IBM's land sharks bite SCO for claiming to own the rights, but didn't IBM buy a whole company on the basis of those claims to get licencing for AIX?
That Microsoft isn't going to give SCO money? tsk!
If those people lost network access, how would Microsoft know? ;^)