NOOOOOOOO!!!! SCO!
- Thread starter Goosemaster
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Why say no if you have a soft spot for IBM? SCO just signed their own death certificate, its like spitting in the mafia don's face.
A threat is still a threat.....
Just Imagine what the corporate world would do if the P series had to be recalled....
Obviously the mafia has its leg-cutters, but SCo could still get a shot off....
Just Imagine what the corporate world would do if the P series had to be recalled....
Obviously the mafia has its leg-cutters, but SCo could still get a shot off....
For me there is only a few things that SCO is trying to accomplish that actually makes sense to me.
Due to resent series of events were Linux machines are starting to take over their terminal services (you know the cash registers at Burger kings/pizza huts/store fronts like sherwin williams stores) business, which is the last major stronghold that SCO current resides they are resorting, too:
1. Trying to piss off the exects at IBM so much that they decide to use some of their pocket change to buy SCO outright and give all the executives a fat serverance check so they can move to a carribean island somewhare and live out their lives as rich tax-sheltered old men and give SCO's investors finally a chance to make some money.
2. Become the first software company in existance to make a living not by selling software, but by suing everybody that sell/runs sofware that remotely resembles their software.
3. Capitolize on the 25-odd years of Unix developement by hundreds of different companies and thousands and thousands of individual designers and programmers, saying that well they actually realy own everything that has been made on any computer that can run a vi editer clone and is remotely posix compliant. Then try to get Sun/Hp-ux/Linux/*Bsd/Aix etc. etc. customers pay them royalties for using them.
4. Kiss Microsoft's butt in the hope that MS will continue to buy snippets of code from them in order to keep them in business so that SCO can continue to piss everybody off that isn't using a Microsoft operating system.
5. all of the above
Due to resent series of events were Linux machines are starting to take over their terminal services (you know the cash registers at Burger kings/pizza huts/store fronts like sherwin williams stores) business, which is the last major stronghold that SCO current resides they are resorting, too:
1. Trying to piss off the exects at IBM so much that they decide to use some of their pocket change to buy SCO outright and give all the executives a fat serverance check so they can move to a carribean island somewhare and live out their lives as rich tax-sheltered old men and give SCO's investors finally a chance to make some money.
2. Become the first software company in existance to make a living not by selling software, but by suing everybody that sell/runs sofware that remotely resembles their software.
3. Capitolize on the 25-odd years of Unix developement by hundreds of different companies and thousands and thousands of individual designers and programmers, saying that well they actually realy own everything that has been made on any computer that can run a vi editer clone and is remotely posix compliant. Then try to get Sun/Hp-ux/Linux/*Bsd/Aix etc. etc. customers pay them royalties for using them.
4. Kiss Microsoft's butt in the hope that MS will continue to buy snippets of code from them in order to keep them in business so that SCO can continue to piss everybody off that isn't using a Microsoft operating system.
5. all of the above
Most likely.
Even if every last thing SCO claims is true, I doubt any judge would force IBM to "return or destroy" all and any trace of AIX, the ramifications are simply too great.
Will be interesting to see what happens nevertheless.
Probably not, unless of course you count the numerous scprit kiddies, virus programmers and MS'aholics that would have either work hard at developing actual computer skills or go back to working at phone call centers. 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I wonder if in 15 years, people will be rallying around microsoft in such a way
Pffft!
SaigonK
Diamond Member
drag wrote:
What do you mean by " work hard at developing actual computer skills "?
You mean learn to program in a inferior high-level programing (C++), allowing programs of Biblical proportions
be thrusted untested on the masses to generate profits?
What do you mean by " work hard at developing actual computer skills "?
You mean learn to program in a inferior high-level programing (C++), allowing programs of Biblical proportions
be thrusted untested on the masses to generate profits?
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