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Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal

Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE dealIt's all fun until someone loses an eyeThe industry should have seen this comming. It started with Microsoft and everyone cheered... now the legal muck left over from that encounter is encouraging competitors to use the legal system instead of being big-boys and making a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., Darl McBride, David Boies

Discussion threads 2003-11-19

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What the SCO take-out really means

First of all it's not $100 million. It's up to $100 million. Anyone who has ever signed a cellular data contract or owned a cable modem knows what "up to" means.  It means not likely. It means "in your dreams, pal." ...

Tags: SCO Group Inc., Open Source, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?Actually......the lawsuits need to be settled and buried and current management must be removed (contracts bought out, if necessary) if SCO is to survive. The former and maybe the latter will take lots of money and this man appears to have it, but...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, IBM AIX/370, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much more

SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much moreBelated obituaryThe Santa Cruz Operation died in 2002. The pieces were sold to Caldera (a Linux distributor, mind) and the rest eventually went to Sun Microsystems.The last five years haven't been so much a long slide into...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Waywardness, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., Caldera Systems Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-19

Windows vs. Unix: the resolution

Be it resolved that Microsofts success is a marketing, not a technical, phenomenon. Theres a two step argument for this: first its possible to argue that Microsoft has never yet introduced a significant technological innovation - that everything theyve done...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Microsoft shelves its Virtual PC for Mac

Microsoft shelves its Virtual PC for MacHow many fools have said this with every version of Office.Far too many for you to be the first in line...MBU is too important to MSNo way do I see them dropping Office for the Macs - it's been around (Word & Excel) even...

Tags: Desktops, MBU, Microsoft Virtual PC, PC, OpenOffice, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2006-08-07

Do you really want to hear the latest in the SCO-IBM case?

I don't.I long ago lost interest in SCO's claim it "owns" Unix and can force everyone to "license" Linux for its benefit.Yet the case goes on. At this point I believe SCO is basically a law firm, specifically the law firm of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP of New York....

Tags: SCO Group Inc.

Blog posts 2005-11-01

Yet another SCO e-mail comes to light

Yet another SCO e-mail comes to lightSCO should settle out-of-courtfor whatever they can get . . .One thing looks apparant...Microsoft's ROI on this deal sucked.Not another e-mailThis wasn't an e-mail. It was a declaration produced specifically for filing with the Court to rebut the laughable Gupta Declaration.I know it's...

Tags: Litigation, OPEN SOURCE, mouse, Microsoft Corp., e-mail, IBM Corp., settlement, SCO Group Inc., SCOx

Discussion threads 2005-07-19

Open source: Prepare for attack

Open source: Prepare for attackPatentsAlthough the patent system is currently broken (witness the recent MS Doubleclick/Drag and Drop patent), it has nothing to do with AutoZone. That was strictly copyright and contract.The lady doth protest too much"Most legal observers discount the legal claims by SCO as illegitimate. But there are...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., SCO Group Inc., open source, OSS, patent, attack

Discussion threads 2004-06-03

RIAA sued under gang laws

RIAA sued under gang lawsLet me be the first to sayABOUT D$#%@ED TIME! Let's see how they like it!I was waiting for thisThe only question is if she will be able to, financially, hold out for the length of the suit.How about a class action RICO lawsuit?I am not a...

Tags: RIAA, music, CD

Discussion threads 2004-02-18

SCO sees loss on legal fees

SCO sees loss on legal feesInstead of sending letters, show the evidence!I´ve heard that SCO claims on about 65 UNIX-Source-Code files had been copied to Linux.1. SCO show, that the 65 Files is your own IP2. If it´s your own IP, show the copying in Linux3. Name the person/people, who...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, handwriting, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2003-12-22

Linux lab hires lawyers for Torvalds

Linux lab hires lawyers for TorvaldsOnly in the USI can't help but feel that a lawsuit this stupid can only happen in the US. I don't think it would be possible in my countrythe Netherlands to launch a suit saying:"You stole something of mine but I'm not going to tell...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., Stallman, Linus, Linux

Discussion threads 2003-11-13