Scodera drops the other shoe

[tom marinis]

--- "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:01 -0600
> bof <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:
> 
> > dep wrote:
> > 
> > >the idea here is to destroy linux, pure, plain, and simple,
> through 
> > >one of the most skillful fud plays i've ever seen. to which
> the 
> > >question is and must be: why? who benefits? nobody would do
> this kind
> > >
> > >of thing solely to peddle sco unix. there is really only
> one company 
> > >that on the face of it could benefit, and it sure as hell
> ain't in 
> > >utah.
> > >
> > 
> > So, in the latest move against Unix/Linux/*BSD, MS will buy
> out SCO,
> > and then insist that everyone with the letters "L", "U",
> "N", "I",
> > "X", "B", "S", and "D" on their computer keyboards will have
> to take
> > out a license, which will be priced $10 higher than that of
> a
> > comparible license for XP. Thus forcing nervous PIB's
> everywhere to
> > buy MS .....
> > 
> > Now what I really want to know is why SCO is not also sueing
> MS, as
> > the TCP/IP code in Windows is derived/stolen/heavily copied
> from BSD,
> > which in turn is stolen from SCO, isn't it --- at least as
> SCO sees
> > it?
> 
> Scodera hasn´t said _which_ pieces of code it believes are
> stolen. 
> Based on previous reports, it looks like the code they´re
> referring to
> is the multi-processor stuff which is what most damages them
> (in fact
> makes SCO UNIX irrelevant).
> 
> Anyway, my $.00002.
> 
> David A. Bandel
> -- 


I think you are both right,

I think that SCO's reasons are very apparent if time is taken 
to review the NASDAQ information listing for SCO now.  SCO
must become to the catalyst to de-rail the LINUX OS, at 
any cost, because they are merely following orders.

MS as it turns out is the second largest investor in the SCO
company, and since it is very apparent that MS is quickly 
losing ground to LINUX in almost every avenue of SOFTWARE
development and OS roll-out since the advent of the XP 
licensing structure.

I noticed on the SCO website their timeline for the UNIX
operating system, but what pisses me off is the display that
they
infact highlighted the yellow line in their reference, trying to
state they introduced UNIX to the world. 

See it for yourself... The original...

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

SCO'S modified version...

http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html

If lawsuit does go through, I guess I could always switch
to OPENBSD, since BSD can't be touched by SCO.



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