Lance Nichols
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Dec 29, 1998
- Messages
- 726
According to Darl McBride... SCO is how it is spelled
For those not in the loop, Darl is the CEO of SCO, a company that seems determined to go down in the annuls of computer history as having launched the stupidest lawsuits and threats of lawsuits ever. SCO is suing IBM for IP infringement over code included in the open source OS Linux.
SCO refuses to indicate what code is being infringed, essentially demanding that IBM, and others targeted in the suits have to find it themselves. What code has been revealed was quickly shot down as having being eliminated from LINUX quite some time back, either because questions about the IP validity, or because the code was obsolete.
The general consensus in the community at large is SCO has NO legs to stand on. So what does SCO do? Well according to this NEWSFORGE article they intend to broaden the lawsuits, going after other open source *nix operating systems by attacking the AT&T/Berkley settlement of nearly a decade ago.
For those unfamiliar with the history of the various *nix flavors, most of the tools developed for modern computing, and Internet usage were developed on one, or more, of these open source OS. SCO is hoping to take down the very basics of modern computing's origins.
For those not in the loop, Darl is the CEO of SCO, a company that seems determined to go down in the annuls of computer history as having launched the stupidest lawsuits and threats of lawsuits ever. SCO is suing IBM for IP infringement over code included in the open source OS Linux.
SCO refuses to indicate what code is being infringed, essentially demanding that IBM, and others targeted in the suits have to find it themselves. What code has been revealed was quickly shot down as having being eliminated from LINUX quite some time back, either because questions about the IP validity, or because the code was obsolete.
The general consensus in the community at large is SCO has NO legs to stand on. So what does SCO do? Well according to this NEWSFORGE article they intend to broaden the lawsuits, going after other open source *nix operating systems by attacking the AT&T/Berkley settlement of nearly a decade ago.
For those unfamiliar with the history of the various *nix flavors, most of the tools developed for modern computing, and Internet usage were developed on one, or more, of these open source OS. SCO is hoping to take down the very basics of modern computing's origins.