[svlug] (forw) SCO v. Novell Decided

[Paul Cubbage]

Good points Karen!

As I remember it, m$ paid $200M for "full UNIX" licensing.  What a joke!
(Sounds like some sort of monopoly violation).  Did Sun do something as
direct and egregious?

IBM is not all that litigious other than that they defend vigorously.
However, the nice part of this is the dark side deliberately threatened
third parties (customers).  That's reason enough for Big Blue to go after
them.  Let's hope they pursue it.

Paul Cubbage

On 8/11/07, Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer at neuralscape.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:55:28PM -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> > On 8/10/07, William Teeple <bill at macgod.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I, for one, am glad that the ruling ended up as it did.
> >
> >
> > +1
> >
> > The question now appears to be whether SCO will have assets sufficient
> to
> > sustain the judgment against it.  For Novell's sake, I hope
> so.  Wouldn't it
> > be a nice little extra if Novell were actually able to obtain monetary
> > damages before SCO curls up and blows away.  I am wondering if maybe we
> > should have a friendly little non-monetary wager here on the list as to
> when
> > SCOX gets delisted (again), this time for good.  SCOX closed the day out
> at
> > $1.56.  Is there any doubt on this list that it will open Monday below
> > $1.00?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> First, thanks to Rick for the link. Cool stuff, although I don't think the
> legal outcome is a surprize or anything.
>
> Yeah, SCO is done. Don't forget, IBM has countersuits against SCO too. And
> IBM is intending to bury SCO over this anyway. Don't expect IBM to relent
> on those intents. SCO is done -- as they should be.
>
> And everyone should keep in mind that SCO was just the agent -- Microsoft
> and Sun Microsystems deliberately funded this attack on the Linux
> ecosystem. I'm not forgeting that myself.
>
> The Linux ecosystem has given me a deterministic path to financial
> security -- free of any specific corporate interests. Oh I work
> for corporations, but I don't have to compromise my principles to
> anyone or any organization -- because of the strength of the Linux
> and OSS ecosystem. And this attack by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems
> was an attack on all of us who collectively constitute the Linux and OSS
> ecosystem.
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
> --
> Karen Shaeffer
> Neuralscape, Palo Alto, Ca. 94306
>  shaeffer at neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com
>
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