Search for "miserable failure" and "weapons of mass destruction" on both the MSN search tool and Google's and the first hit for both searches with both are the same.
Darl and his buddies make a living of sueing, that is their modus-operendi (IKON, DR-DOS etc).
I do believe they did not expect the response to their suit and subsequent charges from the Linux community. Obviously they really don't realize how Linux and the open-source community got where it is, by lots of smart folks working together.
I worked for SCO, got hired by Sequent before it was bought by IBM, still work for IBM. Darl and his buddies are in for a world of hurt if they expect that IBM will give in to their charges. While working for IBM I have found that its "prime directive" (ala star trek) is that it will NOT be sued, and if it is it will CRUSH the sueing fool(s). It is my understanding that the combined legal knowledge of just IP lawyers working for IBM is more than most colleges or universities.
Long ago I soldered together a Sinclair 1000 ripoff, the ACE, once it was complete and running with its onboard 2K of memory, I decided to obtain and solder a 16K addon board, I purchased this and soldered the sockets, caps, resistors etc, then proceeded to put the various logic and memory chips on this board. Once I powered it up nothing worked, so I used my index finger to "feel" the temperature of each memory chip, all but one were cold, the one that was not cold was VERY EXTREMELY ULTIMATELY HOT!, It literally burned the memory chip's model type and production date into my finger, I got a second degree burn. I had to toss the burned the chip but once the replacement was installed correctly (not backwards) the addon memory board worked fine, I now had a whole 16K of memory and a very sore finger!!!
Any one remember WANG, sued all PC MB manufacturers because they were using "WANG's Proprietry" SIMM holder? Where are they now? Where is Centronics? Can't think of modem company that created "AT" command set but they are no longer around either. This looks like death throes of Caldera/SCO.
I used to support SCO UNIX, back when they bought "UNIX" name from NOVELL, as far as I can remember back then that's all they bought. As far as I remember HP got some part of that purchase as well, I believe HP got the smarter UNIX engineers.
I believe that SCO also put into public domain older SCO UNIX about 3 years ago. Also SCO started as a company that Licensed XENIX from Microsoft and went on from there. When I worked at SCO Microsoft owned about 15% of SCO. What was weird was prior to SCO purchasing UNIX, SCO had to pay Microsoft a licensing fee for XENIX source code in SCO Enterprise UNIX. Since Microsoft owned XENIX, and XENIX was derived from UNIX, Microsoft had to turn around and pay licensing fee to UNIX group Licensing for UNIX code in XENIX. What is wierd is that once SCO purchased UNIX, SCO was paying Microsoft for use of XENIX code, Microsoft was paying UNIX for use of UNIX code in XENIX code which then filtered back to SCO.
I have supported MS-DOS, MS-WINDOWS, APPLE/MAC, SCO Enterprise UNIX, SCO UNIXWARE and IBM AIX, my belief is that "What works, sells".
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Search for "miserable failure" and "weapons of mass destruction" on both the MSN search tool and Google's and the first hit for both searches with both are the same.
Darl and his buddies make a living of sueing, that is their modus-operendi (IKON, DR-DOS etc).
I do believe they did not expect the response to their suit and subsequent charges from the Linux community. Obviously they really don't realize how Linux and the open-source community got where it is, by lots of smart folks working together.
I worked for SCO, got hired by Sequent before it was bought by IBM, still work for IBM. Darl and his buddies are in for a world of hurt if they expect that IBM will give in to their charges. While working for IBM I have found that its "prime directive" (ala star trek) is that it will NOT be sued, and if it is it will CRUSH the sueing fool(s). It is my understanding that the combined legal knowledge of just IP lawyers working for IBM is more than most colleges or universities.
what exactly is in my RedHat Linux 9 that qualifies to be licensed from SCO?
so what's to keep some enterprising individual from hacking these cameras
Another to consider is "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll
Long ago I soldered together a Sinclair 1000 ripoff, the ACE, once it was complete and running with its onboard 2K of memory, I decided to obtain and solder a 16K addon board, I purchased this and soldered the sockets, caps, resistors etc, then proceeded to put the various logic and memory chips on this board. Once I powered it up nothing worked, so I used my index finger to "feel" the temperature of each memory chip, all but one were cold, the one that was not cold was VERY EXTREMELY ULTIMATELY HOT!, It literally burned the memory chip's model type and production date into my finger, I got a second degree burn. I had to toss the burned the chip but once the replacement was installed correctly (not backwards) the addon memory board worked fine, I now had a whole 16K of memory and a very sore finger!!!
Any one remember WANG, sued all PC MB manufacturers because they were using "WANG's Proprietry" SIMM holder? Where are they now? Where is Centronics? Can't think of modem company that created "AT" command set but they are no longer around either. This looks like death throes of Caldera/SCO.
I used to support SCO UNIX, back when they bought "UNIX" name from NOVELL, as far as I can remember back then that's all they bought. As far as I remember HP got some part of that purchase as well, I believe HP got the smarter UNIX engineers.
I believe that SCO also put into public domain older SCO UNIX about 3 years ago. Also SCO started as a company that Licensed XENIX from Microsoft and went on from there. When I worked at SCO Microsoft owned about 15% of SCO. What was weird was prior to SCO purchasing UNIX, SCO had to pay Microsoft a licensing fee for XENIX source code in SCO Enterprise UNIX. Since Microsoft owned XENIX, and XENIX was derived from UNIX, Microsoft had to turn around and pay licensing fee to UNIX group Licensing for UNIX code in XENIX. What is wierd is that once SCO purchased UNIX, SCO was paying Microsoft for use of XENIX code, Microsoft was paying UNIX for use of UNIX code in XENIX code which then filtered back to SCO.
I have supported MS-DOS, MS-WINDOWS, APPLE/MAC, SCO Enterprise UNIX, SCO UNIXWARE and IBM AIX, my belief is that "What works, sells".