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Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 03:52 AM EDT
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You have to take a look at today's UserFriendly. It's on bounties and Darl McBride. It made me laugh out loud. There's an article in CIO Insight that mentions SCO, too. The article is actually about Rent-a-Center, which, it turns out, runs in part, its stores, on SCO's software. SCO wasn't the focus of the article, but the journalist thought to ask a spokesman for Rent-a-Center what it'll do if SCO goes out of business. That tells you what folks have on their minds in the real world. Here's their answer: The stores are running SCO Group Inc.'s Unix with POS units from High Touch.
Fuller expressed some concerns about the long-term viability of SCO, but said he wasn't worried.
First, the units require so little support from SCO that he expects to have several months to make a seamless transition, he said.
Secondly, his primary POS vendor—High Touch—has already ported its software to Linux, which would make a transition to Linux an easy move were SCO to go away.
So, end-game strategies are being discussed. Shh! Don't tell SCO. They like to sue customers who switch to Linux, I've heard. Of course, if they "go away," that would be the end of that worry, huh? Ah, happy day.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 04:16 AM EDT |
| To be first and unknown. Corrections please. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: MathFox on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 04:21 AM EDT |
Just in case...
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| Authored by: MathFox on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 04:23 AM EDT |
For things that don't fit in other treads.
Please make links clickable by posting in HTML.
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| Authored by: imperial on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 04:25 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Mark Levitt on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 04:53 AM EDT |
I'm sure I'm stating the obvious for most people, but the thing to realize
about all these "SCO customers" are most likely running some sort of
POS
system.
These people are never going to change these systems if they don't need to
so they're never going to be OpenServer 6 customers.
If the POS vendors are already porting to Linux, then who do you think new
customers are being deployed with?
So, SCO is not going to get any revenue from existing SCO customers, nor
from new customers.
I think this openserver 6 release was a "slap a more modern kernel and
throw
some open source software together" excersise designed to make it appear
that SCO is still a technology company.
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| Authored by: cybervegan on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 05:31 AM EDT |
... you need to keep up with your beauty-sleep for when the time comes to wear
that red dress - and that could be sooner rather than later the way things are
looking. By the way, we expect photos... ;-)
Reckon Darl will get a mention in the next Simpsons series - if there ever is
one?
Lisa could be "long haired smelly" who convinces Bart to go undercover
to work at SCOG using faked qualifications and references in order to prove
their claims are false... Of course, Bart would blow his cover stupidly, and
Lisa would have to hack into SCOG's FTP server to extract evidence to confront
Darl with thus making him free Bart.... Homer would end the strip by saying
"Mmmmm. Free Software..." as he ate a source-code printout on fanfold
paper...
:-D
-cybervegan
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 05:47 AM EDT |
When someone would ask a vendor what the consequences would be of SCO winning
its case, would that mean that we are then discussing not the SCO end-game but
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 07:37 AM EDT |
| A couple of weeks ago on UF... ! [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: egan on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 10:57 AM EDT |
As befits humor, Illiad's "atomic wedgie" crack (no pun intended)
makes light of the likely consequences for Darl, Ralph, et al. But their actual
penalties might be much more serious. As serious as a heart attack.
IBM and Novell have lodged counterclaims against SCO that can justify extensive
discovery, and their investigations might uncover trails of culpability that
lead from SCO's actions back through Anderer and perhaps Baystar (and maybe
other surrogates) to Microsoft and/or others yet unknown.
Civil and/or even criminal RICO prosecutions against Darl McBride, Ralph Yarro
and maybe others are not out of the question. Then there are also potential
securities fraud claims that might target Darl and Ralph, etc. personally.
Financial ruin and even prison terms are arguably too good for these would-be
hijackers of the open software commons, but one can only hope these conspiring
liars, crooks and fraudsters receive their full measures of punishments due.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 01:47 PM EDT |
Sid's numbers are too low.
;-)
Tufty
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 14 2005 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
C'mon, not even $300,000 for that?
Why, the proceeds from selling copies of the video alone ...
Not to mention auctioning off the original video tape ...
Actually, what am I thinking? This is clearly a trap! Darl would just hire a
stunt double, give them the wedgie himself, and scam us all to fund further
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| Authored by: cdru on Monday, August 15 2005 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
My previous job was admining point of sale servers that also uses OpenServer.
While the use of the OpenServer OS was in the process of being ended due to
unrelated circumstances, it was a concern as well. But also like RAC, even if
SCO ceased to exist today, we wouldn't have had a hugh impact immediately. As
of a couple of years ago, SCO priced their support call packages at an obscene
level. We so very rarely called that we haven't really missed it. The biggest
issue with them not existing would be the availablity of additional user
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