Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st May 2008 19:41 UTC
Speaking of soap operas, there's one soap opera in the technology world that has been going on for so long that nobody really seems to know why it was ever started, whatever all the different moves have been over the years, or whoever lost or won which battle. Just like a true soap opera, you can just jump right in the middle of it and feel like you've always been part of the regular audience. The SCO saga is such a case.
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2006-12-22
SCO is dead, he only state things, as did Steve Balmer. The matter that most Linux users don't care. Even enterprises. The same happened when MS was attacked cause they break the MP3 patent. The user are not concerned. The buzz-word is Linux, the good thing is only that peoples cares about Linux and make them known with all that words, instead to get that fear! OS X is "very Linux like, very much so!" look at the first presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII (is Linux-like). The thing that matters, is that process-separation, and etc. are like Unix from '77, but what matter, is that Linux is not at the '77 year level. As not Windows is at level of Windows 3.1 + OS/2. That is the foundation, but is not the OS/2, is much more improved.
SCO itself instead innovating will die as a bad image company, a company that will not compete with software, they compete with patents! Even they say that they bought the Unix copyrights, and is true, the image itself is bad: which company will take patents to sue you! What happend when Macrosoft, when will attack FreeDos, or Wine cause they emulate their stack of software? Or a company will say: TCP-IP is patented, and no one may use it without paying for it?
So, I will not care much on SCO if they will not offer more than patents portofolio!
SCO needs grow, elsewhere is a dead company for me and I will never buy it Linux or Unix from them if I will know that I will remain locked in with SCO. Migrating to any other simialar OS means to care on patent issues, so no reason to risk my future with a lock-in.
I will not take the today convenience for headache for tomorrow.
Edited 2008-05-01 20:56 UTC