Wow, SCO is offering 1-CPU licences for Linux at the low, low, introductory price of $699! Quick, buy now, because they're raising the price soon in an obvious, pathetic attempt to pressure people to buy into their criminally retarded program of spewing forth unsubstantiated piles of steaming crap!!
It would be interesting to see if SCO is in violation of *anyone esles* patents. I mean how do we know what *they* haven't been pilfering from the open source and integrating it into their own secret sauce?
Who knows.... I'm willing to bet IBM is dusting off a stack of patents a MILE high. They've done their own UNIX work too, so let's not forget that. Come to think of it, how do we know M$ isn't cherry-picking from the open source? Hmmmm...
Don't be silly... you know exactly what I mean. SCO is making the claims. They either put up or shut up. It's really that simple and that's exactly what the opensource community (and IBM, Novell, RedHat and others) have been asking them to do. Don't be surprised if they find SCO in violation of something.
I've heard that IBM's *specialty* (when it comes to IP lawsuits) is pulling out ye olde mile-high patent stack until their opponent says uncle. For all I know, they've patented the process of pushing "electrons" down a "wire" made of "copper" (all ? 1862 IBM).
Hopefully (it's kind of strange to say this) IBM's lawyers will crush the puny SCO under their mighty heels, or something like that.
So far, to the best of my knowledge, SCO hasn't made any claims that would affect BSD or its derivatives (Darwin, MacOS X), although I'd like to know if I'm wrong.
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I hope they all get large, festering boils.
Sorry, been reading Slashdot.
Who knows.... I'm willing to bet IBM is dusting off a stack of patents a MILE high. They've done their own UNIX work too, so let's not forget that. Come to think of it, how do we know M$ isn't cherry-picking from the open source? Hmmmm...
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Hopefully (it's kind of strange to say this) IBM's lawyers will crush the puny SCO under their mighty heels, or something like that.
So far, to the best of my knowledge, SCO hasn't made any claims that would affect BSD or its derivatives (Darwin, MacOS X), although I'd like to know if I'm wrong.