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Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 02:00 PM EDT
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SCO plans an Anschluss of GNU/Linux in Europe, in addition to the US land grab. That is the conclusion I reach from reading today's
press release:The SCO Group Announces Appointment of Gregory BleppTuesday August 19, 8:03 am ET Former VP of International Business at SuSE Joins SCO As VP of SCOsource in Europe LINDON, Utah, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX® operating system, today announced the appointment of Gregory Blepp as vice president of SCOsource. Blepp will report to Chris Sontag, the senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the division of SCO tasked with protecting and licensing the company's UNIX intellectual property. Blepp, a former VP of International Business at SuSE, brings to SCO a wealth of experience in marketing and business management from time at Network Associates and Computer Associates. Blepp's appointment is taking place at SCOForum in Las Vegas this week where he is being introduced to SCO partners and resellers. "We're pleased to have Gregory Blepp join SCO to assist in our efforts around SCOsource in Europe," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and GM, SCOsource. "We look forward to using Blepp's talents and expertise in assisting the company to properly license SCO's valuable UNIX intellectual property."
About The SCO Group
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses with UNIX business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com.
SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
I like the knighthood being bestowed at SCOSource, with its catchy theme, Mission: Trained to Sell. I am sure his mommy is very proud of him for this great career move. And it does seem just right for a marketer to be the number two guy at SCOSource. I don't think that's the fit we'd normally have thought of, so it just goes to show how creative those wacky guys are in Utah. Bet Blepp will love Utah. Why, shucks, I even like his name for his assignment. I don't think Dickens could have invented anything better, and there's no denying that our Alice in Wonderland metaphor is starting to feel a little too nice and too sweet for what is now going on, and a Dickensian shift seems in order. Bleak House comes to mind. So all in all, Blepp seems the right man for the job. Here's hoping he's out of a job so fast that he never even shows up as a blip on the radar.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
I would have thought they would tout highly-placed lawyers and lobbyists who
could get their message through the courts, instead of a marketer who'll be
barred from doing in Europe what SCO is attempting in the US.
Sanjeev[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 11:46 AM EDT |
| http://www.i
nfoworld.com/article/03/08/19/HNscodivide_1.html
Open source bad, open source good
quatermass[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 12:20 PM EDT |
| I love how the article ends:
The proprietary world would have created adequate alternatives to the GCC, had
the free software not driven development tool companies out of that market, he
noted. "You had companies that made developer tools, but where are they today?
They don't exist."
Like it's the FSF/GNU/OSS developer's fault that they created a superior product
that makes most others unnecessary.
The rhetoric on SCO's side has gotten to where they just defy any possible
wisdom or sense. If they continue to play the court of public opinion as badly
as they are currently, I can only assume the lot of them will be slapped with
contempt charges on the first day of the trial.
roq
RoQ[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 12:59 PM EDT |
| pages 1, 2 and 3 from Korbomite, who is at the SCO forum
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&act
ion=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=29408
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&act
ion=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=29408
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&act
ion=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=29415
david l.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 01:01 PM EDT |
| Whopps, the second one should be
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&act
ion=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=29414
david l.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
You can view some of the SCO sourcecode at http://perens.com/Articles/
SCOCopiedCode.html
Pete Dawson[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
| Did someone say rackateering? Check the last paragraph.
http://www.eweek.com/
article2/0,3959,1224399,00.asp
gm[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 02:15 PM EDT |
| Hmm, my earlier comment seems to have been lost?
Ok, so is M. Bleep still at UnitedLinux? Check their page,
at http://www.unitedlinux.com/ it
lists the SCO Group and
Suse as 'partners'. Does this still hold? Shall I blacklist
SuSE on my purchasing sheet? Does M. Bleep juggle some
conflicts of interest? What's the inside scoop?
-- David
El Tonno[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 02:17 PM EDT |
McBride: "Hello?"
IBM: "IBM here. We're calling to discuss a settlement."
McBride: "You are? Er, I mean of course you are!"
IBM: "Hundreds of millions you said. What number were you thinking?"
McBride: "Well, uh, we were thinking 600 Million."
IBM: "We were thinking closer to 800 Million."
McBride: "What?"
IBM: "We'll settle for 800 Million dollars in return for not dropping the legal
equivalent of a nuclear missle on your idiotic heads and pressing criminal
charges tthat send you and your dipstick cronies to Mann-Love Penitentiary."
McBride: "Now wait just a minute here--"
IBM: "Save it, McBride. We already know you can't afford it and we know your
case is full of more holes than Swiss cheese. That's a real shame, isn't it? See
you in court, Jailbird." *click*
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 02:39 PM EDT |
| David: It seems Bleep got kicked out of SuSE back in june. Real hard info is
hard to find
and seraching at SuSE gives noting but this link gives some hints
http://www.linuxworld.com/story
/21006.htm
Magnus Lundin[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 02:41 PM EDT |
it should be in may
Magnus Lundin[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 03:02 PM EDT |
| If I recall correctly in an intervier the CEO of SuSE said that SuSE had an
unlimited Unix license from SCO.
Also If I recall correctly tracking there was an article in Forbes at:
http://linuxtoda
y.com/infrastructure/2003061900926OPCDLL
or
http://www.forbes.c
om/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html
that says that SCO is basically oned and runed by "The Canopy Group".
If this is so then to ascertain what SCO's war chest is one would have to
decompose the ownership and subsidaries of "The Canopy Group".
If the Forbes article is correct then that puts into play who are the real SCO
decision maker and what are their agendas.
That raises another very interesting idea. Has the real law suit been files or
is the SCO suite a smoke screen used to ferry out who and which companies
besides IBM and Red Hat are opposed to SCO and their documents, information, and
counter are.
Judging from what has been presentes so far there are more major dynamatic
revelations for and against SCO's position to come.
Both corporate sides of this issue appear to be playing a cat and mouse game
that is so far remote from code writing as the concept of the moon being made
of green chease is from current scientific understand of the moons composition.
One of the major issue with ther current set of public knowledge of course is
what are the non public actions and responses.
Lets not for get the current state of Unix distributions. Which companies have
licened what, what do those agrements imply and what was licensed to whom and
how may not at first glance be relevent but on second considerations that may be
the ball game.
Back to "The Canopy Group". It would be extremely interesting to know who their
real owners are. The assumption here being just as SCO is the front group, "The
Canopy Group" being the apparent disclosed owners that there is an even deeper
layer or layors that have not been exposed. It is only when these layors are
exposed that the "real issues" will be exposed as the "real issues" may not be
the issues tht SCO vocalizes.
sotl[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 03:10 PM EDT |
| SCO's proof bogus, Linux advocate says
http://www.itworld.com/Man
/2685/030819scocode/
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell had not viewed Perens' analysis, but he reasserted
his company's belief that the code was inappropriately contributed. "At this
point it's going to be his word against ours," he said of Perens.
quatermass[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
| Suse are certainly not happy about what SCO are doing
http://www.suse.de/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/sco_statemen
t.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83840
,00.html
I can't find the statement but I'm sure I've read somewhere that Suse provided
some backing for the LinuxTag injunction.
Adam Baker[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 03:30 PM EDT |
| I'm sorry, this is totally off-topic, but something I read above popped a line
into my head from Back to the Future (with a slight adjustment):
"Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McBride Think!"
Nick[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
| Nice link Magnus. Maureen O'Gara once again has the dirt. Starting to really
admire that lady.
As far as Blake Stowell's word against Bruce Perens... heh
Bruce has more integrity in his pinky then SCO combined. Even so I think there
is more then enough documented evidence going back many years about the code's
orgins that eithers word is unnessary to verify.
Supa[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
He used to work for SuSE? Don't most, if not all, employment contracts have
competitor employment clauses in them? That is, if you work for Ford, you can't
just quit and go to work at Chevrolet because they make you a better offer.
Your contract with Ford probably has something prohibiting you from working for
any of Ford's competitors for a certain amount of time, usually at least a year,
more likely two. Does SuSE not have this?
nexex[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
| Inpho about the Canopy Group can be had here:
http://twiki.iwe
they.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CanopyGroup
and check especially this here:
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83452
,00.html
...a deal which sounds to me like a device to kick cash up to
the holding while the stock price is high. More details needed
though.
All this is worth a book and an option to making a film...
El Tonno[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19 2003 @ 04:39 PM EDT |
| nexex, AFAIK SuSe kicked him out.
As German law applies, I doubt that there were many
clauses regarding limitations as to his next employer
in his working contract (these things are generally
not enforceable, at least not where I live).
El Tonno[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 20 2003 @ 07:44 AM EDT |
Since Canopy has control of SCO, it must be either the case that SCO initiated
the attack on Linux and Canopy agreed, or what happened was that Canopy thought
it up and told SCO to do it. I am thinking that this is an issue that IBM will
be looking into as part of discovery. Who knows, perhaps IBM will add charges
against Canopy as part of the suit.
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