More observations on today's news
Message ID: 58465
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-11-04 23:46:00
Subject: More observations on today's news:
Recs: 12
First of all, from Groklaw, an especially cogent sub-discussion about the nature of War, Spitting in the Wind and Tugging on Superman's Cape:
tinyurl.com/todo
Especially this observation:
QUOTE (groklaw.com)
Novell also knows something that SCO cannot know. Novell knows what is in the sealed settlement between it, USL, and the Regents of the University of California. There has been a lot of speculation about what is in that document, and none of it is assumed to be good for SCO. It may well contain listings of code that appears in AT&T System V which AT&T stipulated to having been lifted from BSD without attribution. SCO could well believe that it has a registered copyright on code which also appears in that settlement as ©1980-something The Regents of the University of California.
ENDQUOTE (groklaw.com)
and then THESE analyses from some of the Heavies in the Crunchie Universe:
tinyurl.com/toee
QUOTE (newsforge.com)
The SCO bugbear was raised -- and dismissed out of hand. Seibt said, "Our customers are still demanding our products," despite SCO's attempts to douse the Linux/GPL flames, and said he expects "even higher demand in the future." Messman and Stone agreed. They said, "Novell continues to call upon SCO to substantiate its claims." Good relations with the other two United Linux partners -- Conectiva and TurboLinux -- were mentioned. And that was SCO's 15 seconds of fame during this event; it wasn't uttered again.
ENDQUOTE (newsforge.com)
With this little sub-sub-discussion noted for a REAL reason behind this news, besides IBM and Novell's desire to absolutely CRUSH SCUMX:
QUOTE (newsforge.com)
More interesting is the thread of news releases on SuSE's site. One week ago, SuSE announced that they're joining the ObjectWeb consortium, who's behind J2EE JOnAS and other open-source middleware components. Ximian is also driving the Mono project, so now Novell will have one finger in each pie: .NET and J2EE!
ENDQUOTE (newsforge.com)
The above is ESPECIALLY interesting, in a VERY tasty way, now that Microsoft has abandoned plans for boot-compatibility with UNIX/Linux and SCUMX has abandoned their highly publicized Volution and Center7 strategies and instead spun them out as separate companies, still drinking the Canopy KooAid.
But, then of course, this SCUMX case is nothing and has never been anything, at its heart, other than a stock scam, since the crooks in Lindon and Redmond hatched this criminal stock-manipulation scheme in mid-2002.
...SCUMX is and never has been anything but a stock scam, boys and girls.
k
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Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-11-04 23:46:00
Subject: More observations on today's news:
Recs: 12
First of all, from Groklaw, an especially cogent sub-discussion about the nature of War, Spitting in the Wind and Tugging on Superman's Cape:
tinyurl.com/todo
Especially this observation:
QUOTE (groklaw.com)
Novell also knows something that SCO cannot know. Novell knows what is in the sealed settlement between it, USL, and the Regents of the University of California. There has been a lot of speculation about what is in that document, and none of it is assumed to be good for SCO. It may well contain listings of code that appears in AT&T System V which AT&T stipulated to having been lifted from BSD without attribution. SCO could well believe that it has a registered copyright on code which also appears in that settlement as ©1980-something The Regents of the University of California.
ENDQUOTE (groklaw.com)
and then THESE analyses from some of the Heavies in the Crunchie Universe:
tinyurl.com/toee
QUOTE (newsforge.com)
The SCO bugbear was raised -- and dismissed out of hand. Seibt said, "Our customers are still demanding our products," despite SCO's attempts to douse the Linux/GPL flames, and said he expects "even higher demand in the future." Messman and Stone agreed. They said, "Novell continues to call upon SCO to substantiate its claims." Good relations with the other two United Linux partners -- Conectiva and TurboLinux -- were mentioned. And that was SCO's 15 seconds of fame during this event; it wasn't uttered again.
ENDQUOTE (newsforge.com)
With this little sub-sub-discussion noted for a REAL reason behind this news, besides IBM and Novell's desire to absolutely CRUSH SCUMX:
QUOTE (newsforge.com)
More interesting is the thread of news releases on SuSE's site. One week ago, SuSE announced that they're joining the ObjectWeb consortium, who's behind J2EE JOnAS and other open-source middleware components. Ximian is also driving the Mono project, so now Novell will have one finger in each pie: .NET and J2EE!
ENDQUOTE (newsforge.com)
The above is ESPECIALLY interesting, in a VERY tasty way, now that Microsoft has abandoned plans for boot-compatibility with UNIX/Linux and SCUMX has abandoned their highly publicized Volution and Center7 strategies and instead spun them out as separate companies, still drinking the Canopy KooAid.
But, then of course, this SCUMX case is nothing and has never been anything, at its heart, other than a stock scam, since the crooks in Lindon and Redmond hatched this criminal stock-manipulation scheme in mid-2002.
...SCUMX is and never has been anything but a stock scam, boys and girls.
k
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