SCO has valid case

Sat Aug 23 21:45:57 UTC 2003

On August 22, 2003 05:14 pm, E K wrote:

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WTF ?


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> <P>"The rancorous Supreme Court pronouncement on the 2000 Presidential
> election <BR>~ ought to remind everyone that the US' legal system is at
> best a lottery, <BR>~ and at worst, deeply swayed by human
> vices."           &n
>bsp; -- Andrew Orlowski </P> <P><BR>By the virtue this sco has a valid
> case.</P>
> <P>EK<BR><BR></P></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>From: Emir <EMIR-+0Uepm4v0EJuNKkiiyPfRg at public.gmane.org>
> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> <DIV></DIV>>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: SCO has valid case
> <DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:44:48 -0400
> <DIV></DIV>>
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> <DIV></DIV>>On 22/08/2003 16:10, rickl-ZACYGPecefkNbK0NzMECUg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>| I was at SCO Forum this week and viewed some of the
> disputed code <DIV></DIV>>and
> <DIV></DIV>>| SCO's explanations both without and with NDA. They have a
> valid <DIV></DIV>>case.
> <DIV></DIV>>| Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.6 contains AIX code which allows
> scalability <DIV></DIV>>| beyond that which would have been available in
> a "regular <DIV></DIV>>development
> <DIV></DIV>>| timeframe". Anyone interested in a copy of the non-nda PPT
> let me <DIV></DIV>>know
> <DIV></DIV>>| and I'll email you a copy. I've tried several postings to
> the list <DIV></DIV>>| server but it does'nt seem to be working.
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>Couple of points here, Rick:
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>1. Unless you're a judge in a US Court of Law with
> jurisdiction over <DIV></DIV>>this
> <DIV></DIV>>case, I'd strongly recommend you *never* state it as a fact
> that SCO <DIV></DIV>>does or
> <DIV></DIV>>does not have a valid case. Signing SCO's NDA and sitting
> through <DIV></DIV>>their
> <DIV></DIV>>PowerPoint presentation doesn't make you qualified to make
> such <DIV></DIV>>judgments, at
> <DIV></DIV>>least not in a public forum such as this one. Nobody's gonna
> stop <DIV></DIV>>you, but it
> <DIV></DIV>>can't be considered anything but FUD and thus your
> credibility takes <DIV></DIV>>the
> <DIV></DIV>>one-way trip down the sewers of our fine City.
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>2. Assuming it's the same presentation everyone else saw,
> it's <DIV></DIV>>already been
> <DIV></DIV>>taken apart by many UNIX experts, and Bruce Perens himself
> wrote an <DIV></DIV>>analysis
> <DIV></DIV>>of the presentation
> (http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html). <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>3. Let's talk logic for a moment here: IBM is at risk to
> lose $3bn, <DIV></DIV>>maybe
> <DIV></DIV>>more, from a company they can buy for $25M. Do you honestly
> think <DIV></DIV>>IBM's army
> <DIV></DIV>>of IP lawyers (and IBM is rumoured to have the largest
> collection of <DIV></DIV>>those in
> <DIV></DIV>>history of human kind) overlooked that and it took *you* to
> figure <DIV></DIV>>the case is
> <DIV></DIV>>in SCO's favour?
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>At the end, I'm gonna tell you something you should've been
> told a <DIV></DIV>>long time
> <DIV></DIV>>ago: not everything you see on a PowerPoint slide is
> necessarily <DIV></DIV>>true.
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>- --
> <DIV></DIV>>Emir.
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>>"The rancorous Supreme Court pronouncement on the 2000
> Presidential <DIV></DIV>>election
> <DIV></DIV>>~ ought to remind everyone that the US' legal system is at
> best a <DIV></DIV>>lottery,
> <DIV></DIV>>~ and at worst, deeply swayed by human vices." -- Andrew
> <DIV></DIV>>Orlowski
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