5/20 For those if you worried about the SCO/IBM/Linux Lawsuit:
Read this, from the cnet article by Bruce Perens:
"The real story here is the lack of substance to the SCO claims, and
the increasingly remote chance that its lawyers will prevail. A
similar case alleging plagiarism of Unix by an open-source
operating system was litigated in the early '90s. AT&T sued the
University of California, claiming that the BSD system infringed
upon AT&T's copyrights. Eventually, the court narrowed AT&T's
concerns down to only four source files, which the university
simply replaced rather than argue about them. AT&T then settled the
case by paying the university's court costs. SCO is not likely to
do any better."
\_ Thanks. I thought I am the only one who cared about Linux
in this BSD crowd -- not geeky enough to use BSD
\_ see, it's not about care. we're just not concerned because
there is nothing to be concerned about.
\_ Uhm, why exactly should *any* of us be concerned about one random
smallish company suing some other random very large company about
anything? Worried? What for?
\_ there is a real chance that big company abandon Linux as
platform due to legal issues, however slim that chance is.
\_ That would be great. We could finally get
\_ Dell and IBM (maybe HP? i have no idea) have been
selling hardware with linux to "big company" for
a while now.
the stinking penguin feces off of our
networks.
\_ Linux isn't made for "big company". Why should anyone give
a damn if all "big company" don't use Linux for anything?
Linux doesn't have market share. It isn't sold. No one who
makes it makes money on it. Whatever.
\_ Linux was created to have a UNIX-like US on the PC.
\_ Dell and IBM (maybe HP? i have no idea) have been
selling hardware with linux to "big company" for
a while now. <interruption moved to more polite place>
\_ Linux was created to have a UNIX-like OS on the PC.
Linux is a powerful, stable, multi-user OS. Isn't that
\_ HA HA HA HA! Good one.
\_ What do you mean? Compare to any M$ OS.
What is your problem with Linux?
\_ He's not comparing it to MS. He's
a brainless reactionary, and anyway
My Ford is WAY better than his Chevy
\_ Have you tried using linux for
any real purpose other than
disposable web serving? Even for
non-critical redundant clustering
we have lots of reliability
problems with linux. The boxes
keep crashing in with vm errors,
hanging on network io. Linux is
also a pain in the ass to keep
updated and exploit free (even
debian).
I don't mind linux for light
desktop or server use but to
call it powerful and stable
is a joke.
\_ UC Engineering used to sell a t-shirt
with a bell curve that says "Smarter
Than The Average Bear". Engineering
students may indeed be smarter than the
average bear, but that doesn't mean
they are smart in any absolute sense.
what big companies want? If big companies (IBM) adopt
Linux, it may be more likely that software companies
will release Linux versions of their wares. Peoplesoft
for example. This would make it easer for Linux market
share to increase, which I believe would be a "good
thing". I do not like Microsoft, and I beleve that
Linux is our best hope.
\_ It's far more likely that IBM will simply acquire SCO. Of
course, then IBM could litigate everyone else...
\_ Obgoogle. (how hasn't this been said already ?)
\_ The disconnect is that BSD was completely rewritten to remove all
AT&T code during the late 80's and early 90's. This was a largely
volunteer effort that made the AT&T case moot. |
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