It's all just convenience really...
Get me an iPod that can read LP's, 8-track cartrides, cassettes, CD's, DVD's etc. and fits in my shirt pocket and I'm with you !
Humunculus
"For Every Pleasure There's a Tax."
"McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property..."
So how do we know which supposed part of Linux is SCO's property, if they don't tell us ?
If I must buy a licence, I at least want to know what I am getting for my money, and what is contracted for, yes ?
If SCO's latest warning to all users about possible violations of IP now means we have to shelve all production system and projects regarding disputed IP (re Linux distros) used for commercial reasons to earn real $$$'s, then loss of such income and consequential damages brought about by this dire warning, means those that can prove loss, can litigate against SCO once (they potentially) lose this in court. No company will want to buy them to take on this risk. The only way out will be to file chapter 11 to protect themselves for all of us hungry wolves. Bye bye SCO...
This what Apple did of Microsoft...
Now lets see, take a sys V UNIX and linux console and place them side by side. Now type:
uname
touch SCO
ls
cat SCO >/dev/null
rm SCO
mmm, works the same...
If it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck !
I think they could win this hands down !
Now if I give up programming and take up corporate copyright law, I think I will be rich..
Rob.
"For Every Pleasure There's a Tax"
What do SCO make that is useful these days, and do people buy it ?
How can they exist and make profit (other than lawsuits) ?
Does anyone use their stuff and like it ?
Whilst the Apple Mac and OS X may not be earth shatteringly inivative, they have shown how UNIX on the desktop can be a true alternative to Windows; something Linux has been trying for years. (Of course NeXT really did this 12 or so years ago, but not in volume).
Now that UNIX has shown to be successful on the desktop for the "rest of us", there is a true opportunity for focussed Linux vendors (like Lindows, Lycoris ??!) to produce a real open source alternative to Windows. Driven by both the opportunity created my Microsoft and there licensing "initiatives" and the fact that it can be done, I say go to it, there's a market there, invest in it !
Rob.
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It's all just convenience really... Get me an iPod that can read LP's, 8-track cartrides, cassettes, CD's, DVD's etc. and fits in my shirt pocket and I'm with you ! Humunculus "For Every Pleasure There's a Tax."
That's it, the case will be thrown out of court !
"Linux has Tux, the cute/cool little mascot. What does SCO have? "
They have Darl(ing) McBride of course !
Now he must be far more cute and cuddly than some old moth eaten penguin !
I am sure that Darl can stir the kiddies onto greatness !
What sort of a wanker name is DARL anyway ??!
Rob.
"For Every Pleasure There's a Tax."
If I must buy a licence, I at least want to know what I am getting for my money, and what is contracted for, yes ?
Rob. "For Every Pleasure There's a Tax".
Rob.
"For Every Pleasure There's a Tax".
This what Apple did of Microsoft... Now lets see, take a sys V UNIX and linux console and place them side by side. Now type: uname touch SCO ls cat SCO > /dev/null
rm SCO
mmm, works the same...
If it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck !
I think they could win this hands down !
Now if I give up programming and take up corporate copyright law, I think I will be rich..
Rob.
"For Every Pleasure There's a Tax"
"For every pleasure there's a tax".
Whilst the Apple Mac and OS X may not be earth shatteringly inivative, they have shown how UNIX on the desktop can be a true alternative to Windows; something Linux has been trying for years. (Of course NeXT really did this 12 or so years ago, but not in volume). Now that UNIX has shown to be successful on the desktop for the "rest of us", there is a true opportunity for focussed Linux vendors (like Lindows, Lycoris ??!) to produce a real open source alternative to Windows. Driven by both the opportunity created my Microsoft and there licensing "initiatives" and the fact that it can be done, I say go to it, there's a market there, invest in it ! Rob.