Why Is Linux Being Sued by SCO?

Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:56 am by mustang

I can't believe that, ten bucks says that someone at SCO brown nosed a CA exec into buying a license to give their claims a bit of weight, probably didn't even make them pay for it. Either way this case is getting friggin rediculous, it's almost getting a sideshow like status. Either way SCO has lost all credibility with these kind of bullying tactics. Even if their case is legit, they should have been laying claim to thier IP 15 years ago, not 15 months ago.

Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:07 pm by Esquilax

That's true Mustang, which lends credibility to the theory that they started suing people in order to prevent bankruptcy.

Taw - SCO now says that a number of companies have purchased licenses. They include Computer Associates, Leggett & Platt, and Questar. Here are a couple of links for you stating this. When SCO go out of business, those companies will look SO stupid

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The ambulance is on its way, Taw

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Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:50 am by Tawakalna

ok most sensible folk accept that Sco are finished, and this is just the death throes. But once Sco go (or get absorbed into MS

) then what? Where does that leave the copyright v. open-source battle? MS et al will still be trying to squash open-source and force us down the licence route, while open-source ie Linux isn't gonna go away. I wonder what the next round will be? MS ninjas take out Red Hat's top developers?

Edited by - Tawakalna on 3/22/2004 10:29:50 AM

Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:54 am by mustang

MS will try every low down underhanded trick to kill open source. Everyone can see that open source is spelling Microsofts death knell. Linux distributions just need a few more years to develop a good gui (i don't care what anyone says, Linux gui's are crap, I still prefer the command line) and mature a little more, then Bill will start to really sweat. After paying $700 for a copy of XP, and $30 for a copy of Red Hat 9.0, I know who I'm rooting for.

Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:17 pm by Esquilax

MS will probably lean on a few highly-placed people. Besides, why are you bad-mouthing Bill Gates? We all know that he is a morally-upright individual, and isn't afraid of a little competition

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Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:39 pm by Esquilax

Well, according to article which contains a link to this leaked email, MS supported SCO by giving then $86 Million. Interesting... understatement of the century!

Well, that's assuming that it is all true. I will reserve judgement, as MS wouldn't do anything like that!

Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:03 pm by Tawakalna

@Must. You paid?

now I know you're winding me up

Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:22 pm by mustang

Yup, I always wind up paying full tote odds for my OS's, I refuse to use shonky pirate copies and the company weren't using XP at the time. I paid for Red Hat cause I couldn't be arsed pumping 3 gig down my line, besides 30 bills is dirt cheap.

Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:37 pm by Esquilax

Who says that free copies of XP are shonky? A friend gave me a copy from Malaysia

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Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:09 pm by Esquilax

Now, SCO are apparently suing some Federal supercomputer users. When will it end?!?! Still, it's fun to watch though!

Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:30 pm by Eh_Steve

Next they'll just start suing individual Linux owners.

Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:16 pm by mustang

Did anyone else check out the video interview with SCO CEO Darl McBride? It's in Eskie's link, you can get to it through the Novell video. Pretty funny stuff, he backs himself into a corner like 4 or 5 times.

Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:02 pm by Esquilax

Indeed. He's does not seem to be "on the ball" as they say. But is that surprising? After all, he DOES work for SCO...

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