McBride states his true intentions.

[mobrien_12]

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=46153

McBride: Our goal is not to blow up Linux. People ask why we don't go after the distributors...'If you have such a strong case, why not shut down Red Hat?' Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal.

Yep, thats what I thought it was.  Now you admit that you want to charge for the work of hundreds of opensource programmers.

Scumbag.

[ November 18, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[suselinux]

SCO says that they are going after BSD next!!!

Could this be bad news for Apple?

web page

[slave]

I suggest as many people as possibly post this image everywhere to cause laughs and to eat up badwidth on SCO's server.



[ November 18, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]

[slave]

PS Darl, you'll get your $699 license fee from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
SCO says that they are going after BSD next!!!

Could this be bad news for Apple?

Potentially.  However, if SCO gets its ass kicked by IBM, they will likely go bankrupt.

To be honest, I start to wonder if SCO boys really are, as Linus put it, "smoking crack."  When they bought ancient AT&T unix, they bought the BSD settlement.  It's insane to challenge it ten years later.

[hm_murdock]

how would it affect Apple?

the BSD layer in Mac OS X is governed under a license that was negotiated in the late 1980s when NeXT, Inc. built NeXTStep.

Besides, all they'd have to do is drop the BSD utilities and build their own replacements. Apple owns MACH. The kernel isn't BSD code, it's a microkernel that implements BSD structures. Then there's the BSD subsystem, which is all the unix utils... an optional install... and then all the high-level Objective-C stuff.

besides, the BSD stuff has been tested in court already. AT&T lost big. SCO is nothing but a bunch of whiny bitches who like to jack off to pictures of shitty american SUVs. They like to drink each others' cum and gargle it in front of a mirror.

SCO is a bunch of perverted assclowns. Fucking turdburglars

[ November 19, 2003: Message edited by: jimmy james ]