[clug] Online protest against SCO
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Sun May 25 11:46:16 EST 2003
On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 09:59 , Tim Potter wrote:
> I can't believe everyone hasn't read this:
>
> http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
Well... isn't that interesting. The case that Caldera (sorry, SCO) is
putting forward is basically that IBM is unfairly competing with them in
the "enterprise" market by using SCO's proprietary knowledge to make
Linux better. I love the claims that SCO makes of being the only
commercial Unix vendor to support the Intel platform (hadn't they heard
of Solaris? It's written and distributed by a company called Sun
Microsystems)
SCO's "UnixWare" was never in the enterprise market. SCO's SMP was
badly broken, compared to Linux' SMP which was relatively stable in
2.0 - according to ESR, this is before IBM had any major input - so
SCO's software was never a contender.
So perhaps we should be petitioning for the case to go ahead, so we can
watch in glee as these opportunistic money-grabbers die on their own
swords?
Alex
Live by the patent, die by the patent :)
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