KWSN Orbiting Fortress

ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

From Good Morning Silicon Valley:
And the Ahab Award for relentless and ultimately fatal pursuit goes to ... SCO ... again: When it comes to SCO and its long and fruitless battle to claim ownership of part of the Unix code in the face of a total lack of supporting evidence, it's hard not to think of Monty Python's Black Knight, still full of bluster while blood shoots from the stumps of all four limbs (see "SCO: It's just a flesh wound!"). But now it could finally be lights out for this knight.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:

Why would it be lights out for you, unless you ork for SCO?

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Who is SCO?

I thought the story was about trying to get help from Microsoft when you computer won't update properly, and how fruitless this would be.

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Eaving · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:32 am Post subject:

There some utterly brilliant stories following it over on the register...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/13/sco_responds_novell/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/11/novell_gets_unix_from_sco/
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=5d

The last link is their last 5 day stock price. As someone already asked who SCO was, and for anyone else who may not be following the story. SCO is a company that purchased some early unix code from Novell and was trying to say that any and every linux flavor was derivative of their work and therefore everyone owed them money. Happily after years of legal back and forth the judge has told them to shove most their claims over the last few months
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