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August 5, 2003

SCO Talks Tough

I've been following the whole SCO/IBM/Linux brouhaha for a while now. Red Hat has now sued SCO, and SCO is turning the FUD machine to "ludicrous speed". I'm glad I'm not in the middle of this mess as a customer. SCO CEO Darl McBride is cementing his place in history as a supreme ass with some of the quotes he makes in this article:

"Red Hat's lawsuit confirms what we've been saying all along--Linux developers are either unable or unwilling to screen the code" that goes into the Linux kernel, McBride said. "Red Hat is selling Linux that contains verbatim and obfuscated code from Unix System 5."

"The reality here (is that) IBM and Red Hat have painted a Linux liability target on the backs of their customers," he said. "Due to IBM's and Red Hat's actions, we have no choice but to fight the battle at the end-user level."

Like SCO deserves any end-users at this point. They have yet to admit culpability in the very actions they're suing IBM over; they continued to distribute Linux source code after filing the suit! They're probably making up 99.9999% of the "IP violations". Losers.

Posted by Alex Harden on August 5, 2003 3:59 PM |

Comments

Right Alex,

I actually work on AIX servers and SuSE Linux IBM Mainframe partition servers and IBM seems to not be worried about this joke of a lawsuit at all. Why should they be? We as a customer are continuing to move forward, adding more servers etc.

Posted by: Scotbuff | August 5, 2003 8:10 PM

best part so far: Today's announcement of the $699 Linux tax: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html

Posted by: Ross | August 5, 2003 9:39 PM

My company is only dabbling in Linux on the mainframe at this point. Our main Unix platforms are Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, and some AIX. The heaviest lifting is done on the mainframe (MVS). We have a little of everything, but thankfully no SCO/Caldera products.

I talk to the Unix guys occasionally and not one of them has mentioned the SCO shenanigans. I'd like to know what companies have bought the SCO "Linux indemnity" licenses - they must have money to burn. Besides SCO's mailings to large Linux users, this is still all just in the press until SCO actually plays their cards.

Posted by: aharden | August 6, 2003 8:56 AM

As a Unix admin and Linux user, I feel this lawsuit is just asinine. I can't see this actually ending up in SCO's favor.

Posted by: Don | August 6, 2003 1:56 PM

SCO has expanded their licensing wishlist; they now want $32 for a license for any device running an embedded version of Linux: EETimes article.

Posted by: aharden | August 7, 2003 10:53 AM

Found on a Slashdot comment: SCO's latest 10Q report. Entertaining reading. The comment has some highlights. Good reading.

Posted by: aharden | August 7, 2003 11:21 AM

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