SCO is getting desperate... [LWN.net]

SCO is getting desperate...

Posted May 29, 2003 10:51 UTC (Thu) by rknop (guest, #66)
In reply to: SCO is getting desperate... by pointwood
Parent article: The SCO case gets weirder

They are thugs. Petty, schoolyard thugs. They need to be slapped around ab it and made to sit in detention.

I wonder if we shouldn't just start ignoring them? Unfortunately, the US courts won't. This is just ridiculous, though. "If you guys don't pay up, we're gonna go after *Linus*. Huh! Yeah! Take *that*! So pay up or your Finn boy gets it!" SCO is no longer an entity worthy of any attention whatsoever. Let them scream louder and louder in the corner until they're done with their fit and go away. (All but that thing that the courts are likely to pay attention to their claims, so somebody else has to as well.)

I suppose what with their Linux business having failed on its own lack of merits, there's pretty much nothing the community can do to try to hurt SCO (boycotts, whatever). Also, by now, there's no point in trying to boycott them (or whatnot) to "send a message" to other companies what the Linux community thinks about SCO's behavior, because their behavior has become so extreme and childish that any self-respecting entity (individual or company) would be emabarrased to think that SCO's behavior is anything other than laughable and inexcusable. Maybe we should all pool our resources and sue them for being "too stupid of a company to continue to exist"?

I do feel sorry for any residual Linux or Unix engineers who will be faced with the choice, once SCO goes under, of either having a gap in their resume or the letters "SCO" on their resume. Personally, at this point, I would choose the gap; better that a future employer think that I was laying around like a bum doing nothing that that they think I was associated with SCO.

Unfortunately, in the predatory lobbying/politic/protect intellectual property law circles, having "SCO" on your resume is probably going to be seen as quite a feather. Too bad we can't just pool our resources and sue those circles completely out of existence.

-Rob

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SCO is getting desperate...

Posted May 29, 2003 12:43 UTC (Thu) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

Oh, please...

I used to work at SCO. I don't say "SCO Group" on my resume because the name "SCO Group" has not been approved by shareholders yet (the name is still officially "Caldera International"). Regardless, even if the name is officially changed to SCO Group I wouldn't knock those years of experience off of my resume just because of philosophical issues with SCO's upper management, nor would I change "Caldera International" to "SCO Group" just to put a "feather" in my IP cap (do you honestly think potential employers will look at a resume and say "Hey, you used to work for SCO! They sue over IP issues! You're hired!!"? I don't think so).

And consider this: many of SCO's employees started working at SCO when they graduated from college 15+ years ago. What do you propose people do when 100% of their work experience since college was at SCO? Pretend they just graduated?

You have a right to decide what goes on your resume, and I'm not the kind of person who tells folks what they should or should not do, so whatever. I will say, though, that witholding information from a resume is the same as witholding vital maintenance information for your car (like the re-setting of an odometer) when you go to sell it. It's a lie, and if I were a potential employer I wouldn't hire anyone who I caught lying on a resume.

Just my 2 shares of VA Software stock...

SCO is getting desperate...

Posted May 29, 2003 15:07 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Correction to the above post, SCO group was approved by the shareholders on May 20.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030520/latu029_1.html

Correction to the both posts, it is quite clear that looking over the list of the board and the various CxO officers.. that none of the original management of the original SCO or Caldera are calling the shots there anymore. Basically the name of both companies are being used in vain by a bunch of thugs.

SCO is getting desperate...

Posted Jun 5, 2003 18:03 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Dont hurt SCO,... let them die in peace...
Instead hurt M$...

It only takes linus to merge a patch for a supermout that really auto mounts and umounts sanely removable media, and other local or network volumes, and claim with that that * LINUX IS GOING HEAVELY AFTER THE DESKTOP * to start a fire in the rigth direction...

The opensource community can and should also play same propaganda, because *going heavly after the desktop*, in vue of it's subjectiveness, is not deception... and a really good supermount is really missed in the desktop!