aru Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Hey SCO, sue me! http://www.petitiononline.com/scosueme/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooYah Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 Awesome, aru! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 with all those links flying around, i like this perspective better. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 Yes, but ultimately the Court will decide 'the' perspective to be enforced, and this is what to be feared or felt stupid about :? , because it is being manipulated by legal and political tactics, not technical merit, much less for open source spirit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 This really is bad, and to think I was one of the sceptics about what SCO could do. You guys are actually all right on the moral rights but unfortunately that doesn't seem to have any bearing on M$ who decide their own right and wrong. If M$ were to embrace linux then thats one thing, IBM haven't always been the nicest company around but they have seen the light and more or less made a U turn. Remember, MS make their own rules and there own definitions to the courts becuase they are 'the only ones qualified to do so'. Of course the thread of MS porting there own apps to linux might be right but it doesn't help. Companies thinking of moving to linux might take the easy alternative ... that is the MS backed version that will run their legacy apps (so long as they are M$ presumably). In the end they will add their own restrictive non GPL'd protocols and API that only works for SCO_M$ and they have completely eradicated 'the cancer' as they refer to GPL. Linux becomes MS-Linux first and then the restrictions start. The Apple analogy was very spot on. Linux isn't just about linux its about the right to GPL'd source and open competition where companies decide a market lies and open development where companies don't see a commercial product. Overall its the spirit that counts, in a way it doesn't matter what its called, linux is just the last man standing on the PC arena (OK not quite) and represents a choice; a choice M$ fundamantally sees as a bad thing. The big question is: Was this a set-up from the beginning with M$ involved OR are they jujst responding to a please buy us out type plea from SCO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 Ironically M$ is paying for a license of something which they owned in the past Some curious history ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archi...hive/12338.html 02/08/2000): [...]The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell. Microsoft acquired SCO shares as a result of getting SCO, founded in 1978 by Doug and Larry Michels, to produce a version of Unix called Xenix. Microsoft had licensed Unix from AT&T, and the product was first marketed in 1979. In 1987, Microsoft was concerned that AT&T's Unix applications might not run with Xenix. As a consequence, AT&T agreed to add some Xenix code to its Unix and to pay Microsoft a royalty for this. Ray Noorda subsequently acquired Unix from AT&T for Novell, held it for two years, and then it was sold to SCO in 1995 - with Novell receiving a 13.8 per cent holding in SCO as part of the deal. The next year, SCO realised that the code added to Unix was no longer needed or relevant, so it asked Microsoft to agree to end the agreement. Microsoft refused, with the consequence that SCO complained to the European Commission competition directorate early in 1997. In FY 1998, SCO paid Microsoft more than $1.138 million in royalties. In January, Microsoft sold its entire 12.3 per cent holding in SCO, and the SCO share price began to collapse. [...] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 OSI has put out a position paper concerning the SCO vs. IBM case. Slashdot post the position paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 an article anout the chances of SCO... http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1007758.html (nothing is sure of course....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Hey SCO, sue me!http://www.petitiononline.com/scosueme/ I have signed it. Didn't give real name or address, but still it is another voice against SCO... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted May 24, 2003 Report Share Posted May 24, 2003 The OSI's position paper is excellent and really breaks down just WHY SCO's complaint is an utter work of fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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