Someone mentioned already, but when it comes to IP cases (or any type of law suits), anyone involved in the case would cautiously shut their mouth and just say, "see ya in the court" with a big grin. At least that's how lawyers suggest, if not demand, them to do because what they say publicly can be used AGAINST their cases.
Instead Mr. McBride, Sontag and other SCO brasses appear all kinds of media (web, paper, you name it) with no hesitation and vocally explains minutes-to-minutes updates on the IBM case and vaguely mumbles what may happen in the near future to this ex-UNIX-distributer-turned-IP-broker.
Assertiveness and absurdness of Mr. McBride's comments explaining the whole situation of the case reminds me of Iraq information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, a.k.a. Comical Ali. At first I thought Mr. McBride's appearance on media was nothing but annoyance, but now I found it entertaining, and as a matter of fact, I can't wait to see more of his absurd comments appearing on media to make good laughs. I personally call Mr. McBride "Comical Darl," after the great information minister, but this can be an insult to the Iraq minister.
hmm...so, if you want to keep this worm up and running after July 14th you need to reset clock on your PC just like you did with XP Beta you downloaded from IRC?
Actually Lindows have Click'n'Run W32 Worms available and you don't have to compile them. Thanks to Michael Robertson, switching from MS to Lindows is seamless.
can someone hack the watch and install Gentoo or Debian for the sake of stability?
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it was amusing for a while, but now this story is just a plain annoyance. IANAL, but SCO doesn't have a case and they know they don't. they can't even bring this to prelim to stop IBM shipping products in "violation" of their IP.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/06/16.html
stupid media should realize this case is lion vs. fly, and media is being used by SCO the fly as a vehicle to spread FUD. IBM and Linux have already suffered substantial damages from this baseless accusation. someone should do something to stop this nonsense.
I'm just hoping that the sleeping lion will soon stand up and smash the obnoxious fly into ditch. then I will applaud.
"Do we have potential issues with Red Hat, SuSE and other commercial Linux distributors--yes, we might," Sontag said, adding that chances for negotiating with such companies appear to be slim.
Meanwhile, SCO will change its SCummy name to something more pleasing and better represents what the company offers.
IF and it is a BIG IF, if this is true then what happened to the Anti-Monopoly laws?
I believe sanctions to M$ were tamed down because gates made a large sum of political contribution to bush campaign. M$ paid to quiet DOJ down like they did to AOL last week. under george w. administration, M$ is immune to anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws. good news for share holders.
Selling at below cost to break your competitors is illegal in at least some places, im sure.
that's what MS has ever been doing with XBox though. MS is not dominant in game console biz for god's sake, but it's beating Nintendo to death. illegal? nah. unethical business practice? not according to billyg
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Someone mentioned already, but when it comes to IP cases (or any type of law suits), anyone involved in the case would cautiously shut their mouth and just say, "see ya in the court" with a big grin. At least that's how lawyers suggest, if not demand, them to do because what they say publicly can be used AGAINST their cases.
Instead Mr. McBride, Sontag and other SCO brasses appear all kinds of media (web, paper, you name it) with no hesitation and vocally explains minutes-to-minutes updates on the IBM case and vaguely mumbles what may happen in the near future to this ex-UNIX-distributer-turned-IP-broker.
Assertiveness and absurdness of Mr. McBride's comments explaining the whole situation of the case reminds me of Iraq information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, a.k.a. Comical Ali. At first I thought Mr. McBride's appearance on media was nothing but annoyance, but now I found it entertaining, and as a matter of fact, I can't wait to see more of his absurd comments appearing on media to make good laughs. I personally call Mr. McBride "Comical Darl," after the great information minister, but this can be an insult to the Iraq minister.
... has an expiration date of July 14th,...
...so, if you want to keep this worm up and running after July 14th you need to reset clock on your PC just like you did with XP Beta you downloaded from IRC?
hmm
Actually Lindows have Click'n'Run W32 Worms available and you don't have to compile them. Thanks to Michael Robertson, switching from MS to Lindows is seamless.
can someone hack the watch and install Gentoo or Debian for the sake of stability?
it was amusing for a while, but now this story is just a plain annoyance. IANAL, but SCO doesn't have a case and they know they don't. they can't even bring this to prelim to stop IBM shipping products in "violation" of their IP.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/06/16.html
stupid media should realize this case is lion vs. fly, and media is being used by SCO the fly as a vehicle to spread FUD. IBM and Linux have already suffered substantial damages from this baseless accusation. someone should do something to stop this nonsense.
I'm just hoping that the sleeping lion will soon stand up and smash the obnoxious fly into ditch. then I will applaud.
"Do we have potential issues with Red Hat, SuSE and other commercial Linux distributors--yes, we might," Sontag said, adding that chances for negotiating with such companies appear to be slim.
Meanwhile, SCO will change its SCummy name to something more pleasing and better represents what the company offers.
IF and it is a BIG IF, if this is true then what happened to the Anti-Monopoly laws?
I believe sanctions to M$ were tamed down because gates made a large sum of political contribution to bush campaign. M$ paid to quiet DOJ down like they did to AOL last week. under george w. administration, M$ is immune to anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws. good news for share holders.
Selling at below cost to break your competitors is illegal in at least some places, im sure.
that's what MS has ever been doing with XBox though. MS is not dominant in game console biz for god's sake, but it's beating Nintendo to death. illegal? nah. unethical business practice? not according to billyg