SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 79356 Posted By: diogenese19348 Posted On: 2004-01-11 13:42:00 Subject: Re: I don't like the IBM Recs: 1 << Then please take it elsewhere. Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopoly. A crime deserving of a corporate beheading. SCOX is trying to join these ranks. Thats not revisionary history. This is not a MSFT board. >> Strangely enough, he is correct. Much as I believe M$ is behind this mess (amd my tin foil hat is quite snug, thanks) Microsoft is where it is because everybody else screwed up. Lotus for example. Instead of improving its product, it sued Borland for, ahem, infringing on it. Look and feel. Lotus was a prostitute. It no longer exists. DBase. The premier name in database engines. Instead of improving, it sued anybody that used its language. Guess what? It does not exist anymore. Word Perfect was the wild card. It never sued anybody. It sold itself to Novell. Which sold it to Corel after the brand was gutted. Al...

Message ID: 24437 Posted By: diogenese19348 Posted On: 2003-08-06 22:05:00 Subject: An Observation or two... Recs: 3 Don’t take this as a threat to SCOX folks, it is not. Just a bemused observation. Has Darl McBride really considered what it means to piss off a whole planet of hackers at the same time? And piss them off when a large group of them are meeting in a convention center yet? Great business move. I suggest you keep some support staff, and back up your servers regularly. People who know more about how your software works than your company does really hate you at the moment. The SCOX case is of course worthless, and obviously so. They would have showed the code long before if it was not. They could have gotten their price from IBM and others, and closed the shop with a huge profit. I guess they got cocky with DrDos, which they bought from Digital Research. Yeah, they extorted some money from MicroSoft with that, but I assume it was more Monopoly...

Message ID: 24019 Posted By: diogenese19348 Posted On: 2003-08-05 21:27:00 Subject: Twas brillig and the slithy toabs... Recs: 2 Sorry, couldn't resist. Lewis Carol seems appropriate to this mess. This board has been an extremely interesting read all day. My viewpoint: First, I am not a Linux developer or user, though I was a SCO Unix developer at one time. That is Santa Cruz Organization Unix, not the current folks. Currently I am only developing in Windows. Secondly, I do not have, nor have I ever had, any stock in SCOX. And if I had any, I would sell it in a heartbeat. Which brings me to my opinion... I guess what I should point out first, is that SCOX did not write a single line of Unix code. Not one. What they did do is buy the rights to Unix from somebody else. Sort of like Michael Jackson buying the Beetles catalogue. The difference being, Michael Jackson does not have to sing like the Beetles, write like the Beetles, or play an instrument...