Re: SCO after BSD settlement

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 2:07 AM, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:16:32AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> > off the stage and quite thoroughly debunked. With both IBM and Red Hat
> > now demanding in court that SCO show its cards, the company came to
> > realization that it was either at the end of the trail or that it had 
> > to
> > broaden its horizons.
> >
> > They've chosen the latter. CEO Darl McBride, in fact, used the term
> > "broad and deep" several times in his remarks, and that was no 
> > accident.
> > Since they cannot show infringement of SCO Unix code, SCO now plans to
> > challenge the 9-year-old settlement between AT&T and BSD. If it can
> > successfully do that, then its claims that Linux contains tainted code
> > can be substantiated. If it can't, SCO is dead meat.
>
> SCO will lose and they will get dumped by everybody. But then again, 
> folks
> in California voted Arnold into power, so who knows what's going to 
> happen.

I have basically come to 2 conclusions.

1) We live in the Matrix.
2) Salvadore Dali's paintings are an accurate reflection of reality and 
life
     as we know it is a lie.

:)

I will switch ALL of my coding efforts to the Microsoft platform before 
I work
on any SCO bullshit.  Then I will make plans to do something else with 
my
career choice because clearly its not possible to be a sane person in a 
sane
society where this crap is allowed.

Perhaps I should just move to Europe...

> All you can do is keep coding and hope that IBM/RedHat sort all of 
> this out.

> bill