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May 29th, 2003, 07:15 PM
#11
w00t. I have always been a fan of Novell, and have been fairly saddened at their huge market loss.
Sure their old stuff was fairly clunky, but I still have fond memories of pulling all nighters, or a weekender to fix a hard problem.
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May 29th, 2003, 08:57 PM
#12
Originally posted here by KorpDeath
P.S. I used to hate Novell, now they seem to be on the right track. (except with their software)
True, true.
*tips hat*
I've never been a big fan of Novell's products, but I'm now definitely a fan of the company. They slapped SCO pretty good! 
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June 2nd, 2003, 03:16 AM
#13
Senior Member
If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently all ears.
McBride's comments came in reaction to a report from Forrester Research Inc. analyst Ted Schadler, who wrote last week that IBM or an IBM-led consortium will likely "pay off SCO" or buy the company to "make the SCO problem go away."
source page http://www.computerworld.com/softwar...,81709,00.html
Looks like there is truth in the speculation that SCO wants to be bought out.
\"Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.\" — Kernighan & Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
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June 2nd, 2003, 09:09 AM
#14
ICeStorm, that's a posibility too..
The one thing I do know is that SCO has had the most publicity ever..
and remember, there's no such thing as BAD publicity..
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
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June 4th, 2003, 03:48 AM
#15
Senior Member
I just read this article http://www.alwayson-network.com/comm...id=514_0_3_0_C by an IP lawyer. It is titled "SCO & UNIX: A Comedy of Errors." It is kind of funny.
\"Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.\" — Kernighan & Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
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June 4th, 2003, 05:17 AM
#16
You think that is funny!! Check out the link that I posted in the Tech Humour Forum, I came close to wetting myself when I saw this...
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=244464
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June 6th, 2003, 01:33 AM
#17
Senior Member
That was a riot. I can hear SCO now, "Tham dukes!"
\"Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.\" — Kernighan & Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
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June 8th, 2003, 02:47 PM
#18
SCO shows some proof
PARK RIDGE, Ill. — SCO Group revealed the foundation of its legal battle with the Linux community, when it rolled out evidence of large blocks of Linux code that it contends were stolen from Unix. Analysts who saw the samples of the allegedly stolen code said the evidence is damaging and that SCO Group has a formidable legal case.
“If everything SCO showed me today is true, then the Linux community should be very concerned,†said Bill Claybrook, research director for Linux and open-source software at the Aberdeen Group (Boston).
If SCO (Lindon, Utah) prevails in its legal efforts, many observers believe the action could, at best, result in hundreds of multimillion-dollar licensing payments from Fortune 1000 companies and, at worst, damage the foundation of open-source software.
Full Article [ here ]
It seems two analysts have checked the code and 80 lines including comments match up very closely. I wonder what kind of impact this is going to make on the whole mess? It already seems like a disaster in the making, and I can't even imagine whats next.
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June 8th, 2003, 05:31 PM
#19
Senior Member
It seems two analysts have checked the code and 80 lines including comments match up very closely. I wonder what kind of impact this is going to make on the whole mess? It already seems like a disaster in the making, and I can't even imagine whats next.
The way I see it right now.
1) Those lines may have been taken from a BSD a used in SCO UNIX, which would mean that they are not the property of SCO any way.
2) The may have come from an older version on Unix that was ruled public domain by the courts. http://www.alwayson-network.com/comm...id=514_0_4_0_C
3) This little statement from then Caldera may invalidate SCO/Caldera’s claim. http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
4) IBM may buy out SCO.
5) Maybe those lines of code came from Linux itself (although I think unlikely, but possible).
Worst case scenario for end users.
SCO wins and some of the kernel needs to be rewritten.
Worst case scenario for big business.
SCO wins and want some $$. The win would most likely be a huge setback to Linux deployments in the enterprise. (Would Big Blue let this happen? I doubt it.)
\"Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.\" — Kernighan & Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
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