Pages Tagged “SCO”
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- Sweet Irony
This is a good one. Apprently in setting up their own anti-Groklaw site, SCO has grabbed PDFs of legal documents from Groklaw and Tuxrocks.com. In a campaign focused on intellectual property rights, where SCO is the accuser… Groklaw’s PJ has a good take on it: “I’m sure [Tuxrocks’] Frank would want to join me in […]
- More Linux Consolidation
Remember UnitedLinux? It was a consortium of Conectiva, SuSE, TurboLinux and Caldera to build a common distribution that could compete with Red Hat. That effort got derailed, in part because Caldera decided they could make more money by changing their name to SCO and extorting suing the market into oblivion. Now Novell owns SuSE, TurboLinux […]
- SCOre
Judge slams SCO’s lack of evidence against IBM. After all the wild claims they’ve made without providing evidence, it’s nice to see even the judge is getting sick of it.
- I’ll get you, my pretty!
Ouch. I can see these people take Darl McBride seriously: Techworld.com – Linux is mine, all mine, cackles distracted SCO head. I know it’s been said before, but he really is starting to sound like the famed Iraqi Information Minister.
- From the department of Huh?
Groklaw has posted an affidavit in the SCO vs. Daimler Chrysler case. Essentially, SCO sent DC a letter saying “as per your license terms, send us a list of all the computers you’re using UNIX on.” DC wrote back saying, “We haven’t used UNIX in seven years, so there is no list.” And SCO sued […]
- What color is SCO’s sky?
OK, I haven’t written much on the SCO vs. Linux debacle in a while, mainly because others have done so much better and in much more detail than I possibly could, so here’s a summary of the situation as I see it. SCO: Linux stole from us! Linux: Uh, no. What did we steal? SCO: […]
- SCO is a bunch of bastards
Several months ago, Scummy Computer Operations sued IBM claiming that IBM had copied code from UNIX into Linux. They refused to say what code had been copied. Already this sounds fishy. In their initial filing, they insulted the ethics and competence of the entire Open Source community. Eventually they started making wilder and wilder claims. […]