Re: SCO moronic loss in Novell suit

[RJack]

spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> And verily, didst RJack <user@example.net> hastily babble thusly:
> > SCO lost its meaningless copyright suit with Novell yesterday. 
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622
> >
> > Here is my old 29 Dec 2007 post to this group about SCO:
> >
> > *********************************************************************
> >  SCO, was a really stupid company that initially released software
> > under the GPL. Remember SCO Linux? After discovering the folly of
> > the GPL business model they tried mindless litigation.
>
> You have absolutely no grasp of the history of SCO group. SCO didn't
> begin with the release of SCO linux, they began as a LINUX 
> distribution called Caldera.

I do have sufficient grasp of history such that I own a copy of an
original release CD for Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (Sam's ISBN
0-672-31761-3). How 'bout you?

> For many years they were a SUCCESSFUL linux distribution who aquired
> enough cash to BUY stuff like DRDOS and SCO.
>
> Only once they had bought SCO did they decide suddenly to start suing
> people over the linux they themselves had been distributing for the
> previous few years.
> > Any company that thinks that the long term capitalization of GPL 
> > software is possible deserves to eventually go bankrupt in
> > litigation. Good riddance to SCO. They deserved it.
>
> The GPL has NOTHING to do with why they began litigation, they hired
> an utterly insane individual as CEO called Darl McBride who deluded
> himself and the company into believing that IBM had included THEIR
> property from SCO unix into the linux kernel.
>
> 5 years later and not a single line of code has been found that
> infringes.

So what? Who gives a rat's ass? Not me.

Sincerely,
RJack :)