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SCO announces quarterly results, first user target

SCO announces quarterly results, first user target

Posted Mar 3, 2004 14:39 UTC (Wed) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854)
In reply to: SCO announces quarterly results, first user target by pjs
Parent article: SCO announces quarterly results, first user target

They are back to their "It's too good to be honest" logic.


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SCO announces quarterly results, first user target

Posted Mar 3, 2004 15:13 UTC (Wed) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

I worked the first time. It will work now.

In a wider perception, this must do material damage to Linux adoption, and if that was the ultimate goal, they win. There is an AP article on the subject, and if you read that as a user who doesn't know much about OS's, the conclusion must be that this Linux thing is pretty dodgy. Unfortunately, this is the news that will get carried by our local newspapers.

It worked with reporters, not the courts

Posted Mar 3, 2004 18:45 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Sure, it convinced reporters but the judge has been less than impressed so
far. She told SCO that they needed to provide more proof (otherwise they
would have had no ground for filing the complaint in the first place). But
instead of giving more specific information SCO just dropped the claims and
replaced them with the copyright claims against AIX people mentioned above.
The funny thing about those claims is that the license cancellation depended
on the original complaint being valid. So SCO hasn't really fixed their
problem, just delayed it.

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