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SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2
For your amusement: the SCO Group has just announced the
availability of "OpenServer Update Pack 2." Bleeding-edge features in
this update include support for USB devices and the bundling of
PostgreSQL. Free software, it seems, is OK if it does not compete with SCO
products. The "OpenServer development roadmap" calls for the eventual
addition of other advanced features, including Apache and Mozilla.
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SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 19:16 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Mr. Hunsaker's statement that "SCO UNIX solutions are the backbone of many global Fortune 500 companies" would seem to be... ahh... stretching the truth a bit? But then... that's not unusual for SCO.
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 19:19 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that any and every Unix or Unix-like, or Unix-related software (or indeed, any digital or somehow information-related device) is owned by SCO. So they do form the backbone of the entire Fortune 500. My mistake.
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 19:50 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] I like the "The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday." even better... ;DDennis
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 19:42 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Is this an example of Robert Anton Wilson's "Revolution of Lowered Expectations?"
Don't Laugh Posted Feb 18, 2004 20:35 UTC (Wed) by Spike (guest, #14160) [Link] Hey they finally put in USB 1.1 support !! I've been dying for this. ;^)
Don't Laugh Posted Feb 18, 2004 23:27 UTC (Wed) by ken (subscriber, #625) [Link] amazing they still have people competent enough to actually do that work.
They don't have people competent enough to do the work Posted Feb 19, 2004 3:39 UTC (Thu) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link] UnixWare, at least, appears to have stolen and adapted mucho code from SuSE Enterprise Linux 8 in order to stay afloat - which only makes sense if you view the GPL as unconstitutional [that page tells a direct lie - their Unices are both legally encumbered by Novell's ownership of the System V code they're based on - and two half-truths but they've ignored requests to take it down] and somehow twist the consequences of that from "and therefore we can't distrubute any GPLed software" to "and therefore we can do what we please with GPLed software".How shocking would it be if their OpenServer team turned out to have done likewise?
They don't have people competent enough to do the work Posted Feb 19, 2004 5:13 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] > view the GPL as unconstitutionalGPL in only unconstitutional if it is not in SCO's best interest on that particular day, for a particular piece of software and such. That is to say, SCO is allowed to take free software (e.g. Samba, bash, gcc) and distribute it under the GPL. In that case GPL is valid. Anyone else is violating the constitution (no less!) by doing the same. In case you're wondering where all this comes from, it all in the "SCO Copyright Act 2003", as written by Darl, Heise and cohorts ;-) They are going to have a rude awakening when they find themselves in trouble over GPL violations. I'm getting the feeling IBM had enough of the "AIX is ours" crap from SCO...
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 21:07 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] How Open is Open Server?
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 21:45 UTC (Wed) by georgm (guest, #19574) [Link] wide open ;)Btw: SCO UnixWare with UDK is named as an obsolete system in gcc 3.4
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 18, 2004 23:16 UTC (Wed) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] 1. Have you noticed that the article references to www.sco.com - this site no longer works after the MyDoom DOS attack...2. They say they are bundling PostgreSQL; more like bungling it. They don't even say which version... 3. I looked at the release notes. Couldn't use the link . *.sco.com again... Sorry, if you want to compete with Linux, at least be professional, detailed and accurate.
SCO OpenServer Update Pack 2 Posted Feb 19, 2004 0:31 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] > Sorry, if you want to compete with Linux, at least be professional, detailed and accurate.Why would they want to compete? They OWN it. Sorry, just couldn't resist :-)
The "myDoom attack" didn't get them Posted Feb 19, 2004 3:33 UTC (Thu) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link] sco.com kept right on working, even while www.sco.com was "suffering a DDOS attack". But what did you expect from a bunch of pathological (in the technical sense) liars? They're trying hard to paint themselves as the abused underdog rather than the selfish, destructive thugs that they actually are.
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