Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-04 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > SCO was a second class player in the UNIX world behind BSD and Sun. Then > they switched to Linux, and became a second class player behind Debian and > Red Hat. This is the sign of a poorly run business. > > Having failed twice, SCO then did

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 18:35 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote: > Apple was sitting on a bucket load of cash with no idea what to do > with it. Microsoft underestimated the strength of the Linux > community. Felt that a few bucks and legal support to Score would > cause the Linux menence to go away... when

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Kevin Fries
Apple was sitting on a bucket load of cash with no idea what to do with it. Microsoft underestimated the strength of the Linux community. Felt that a few bucks and legal support to Score would cause the Linux menence to go away... when it didn't work, they put in several more infusions of cash. M

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 15:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: > http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153 > > perhaps expected but jury ruled SCO did not have the copyrights. on topic... Bizarre Cathedral cartoon http://fsmsh.com/3315 Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 17:20 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote: > SCO was a second class player in the UNIX world behind BSD and Sun. > Then they switched to Linux, and became a second class player behind > Debian and Red Hat. This is the sign of a poorly run business. > > Having failed twice, SCO then did

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Stephen
Not to mention galvanizing the Linux and Unix communities... On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > SCO was a second class player in the UNIX world behind BSD and Sun.  Then > they switched to Linux, and became a second class player behind Debian and > Red Hat.  This is the sign of

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Kevin Fries
SCO was a second class player in the UNIX world behind BSD and Sun. Then they switched to Linux, and became a second class player behind Debian and Red Hat. This is the sign of a poorly run business. Having failed twice, SCO then did the unthinkable, the took large amounts of money from Microsof

Re: no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Stephen
I find it amusing that Novell slapped SCO and SCO had the balls to try this. It was pretty plain that they Had acquire the IP legitimately and were quite happy leaving the world alone SCO was not and their case was done until they could prove it was their IP. was a very poor and sad strategy on SC

no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153 perhaps expected but jury ruled SCO did not have the copyrights. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --- PLUG-discuss mailing