SCO loses again

Posted Apr 1, 2010 1:50 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)
Parent article: SCO loses again

The problem never was SCO. It was always Ralph and Darl. As long as they're running loose, the problem remains. Jail them, and the problem subsides for a while. Unfortunately there's probably not enough regular fraud material for more than a couple of years in the pokey, but a couple of years' quiet is better than none. I wonder if they could be arrested for (legal) terrorism... I imagine they could be imprisoned indefinitely for that, without wasting even more time in court.

SCO loses again

Posted Apr 1, 2010 2:48 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (2 responses)

More to the point, it's the source of funds for Darl's excellent adventure. He would never have been able to do it without his enablers, Sun and Microsoft. I never did quite understand Sun's rationale, but Microsoft's was clear.

If they had not waved money at him, he would not have been able to hang on nearly as long as he did.

SCO loses again

Posted Apr 2, 2010 22:51 UTC (Fri) by branden (guest, #7029) [Link] (1 responses)

Sun's motivation has always seemed pretty obvious to me.

They have always been, in their own minds, the One, True, Professional
Unix.

If only permitted a fair market opportunity, Solaris would have prevailed.

If only permitted a fair market opportuntiy, *Open*Solaris would have
prevailed.

They wanted Linux tied up in court so that Solaris would become the safe
choice.

I'm open to alternative theories...

SCO loses again

Posted Apr 6, 2010 3:05 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

They wanted to open source Solaris. To do that they got experienced
engineers to go through the source, line by line, to identify all code to
which there might be other rights holders. Then in combination with legal,
they tried to figure out the legal status of the code. Where applicable,
they went to other rights holders to see what was needed to open source the
code.

But who knows for sure..