Submitted by “SCO was dealt yet another blow in court today when District Judge Ted Stewart rejected the company’s motion requesting a new trial or judgement of law. In a ruling issued today, Judge Stewart sided with a jury that issued a verdict against SCO in April, finding that Novell was the rightful owner of the UNIX SVRX copyrights. According to Judge Stewart, SCO failed to demonstrate that the jury’s verdict contradicted the evidence presented in the case.”
I just don’t know what to say……
Other than its about %^&*%&* time!
Now we can all move onto better things…
Like ridiculing Apple…..:)
There’s a pecking order there I’m sorry. Microsoft first, though Apple is fast closing the gap.
Apple has already taken the top spot among some. When Microsoft released that sneaky Firefox plugin, it was like “Oh yeah, they do that kind of thing, meh”.
Does anybody even follow with Microsoft are doing these days? It seems they have released a few office versions after Office 97, and are no longer ridiculed because Windows 7 is sort of okay (in the eyes of naive observer).
One interesting [OT] discussion that is being ignored – iPad will do some damage to Flash. Can you extrapolate what it will do to Silverlight, the technology that never gained any real realfoothold?
Windows 7 is a very well done OS.
It’s a nice gaming os, yes.
Unfortunately, it’s still windows; you just need to win+r cmd to remember what kind of turd it is in the end, despite all the snazzy blinking lights.
As opposed to Alt+F2 … ?
The key combo is not the problem; the problem is what will open as a result.
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Yeah, a run dialog.
No, a terminal (cmd.exe, since “cmd” is the command we entered at the run dialog).
Are you afraid of the cmd line? Does it bite?
On Windows, it does.
If you care so much about having a modern command shell, why not use PowerShell instead?
Even better, install Cygwin. Then you can have whatever shell you want (personally I like Bash). One of the first things I do on any Windows system of my own. Not only can I get all the shells I want, but all the standard *nix stuff I’ve come to rely on (rsync, ssh, lftp, etc). Face it, the Windows command line sucks as did DOS before it. Fortunately, you don’t have to use the Microsoft shells, find one you like and use that instead.
I also use cygwin while in windows world. It isn’t perfect, however. Cygwin itself runs within cmd.exe which means it still retains some of its quirks.
I actually prefer downloading the shell from freedos and running cygwin from it.
Enlighten us Windows free people, what does this key combo do?
Whenever I read an update on the SCO-woes I can’t help but be amazed at their tenacity and endurance despite the overwhelming evidence and legal rulings that continually say how ‘full of it’ they really are.
A final sense of justice (and humour) would be that SCO does indeed get bought-out/recover but later on becomes a company synonymous with selling and supporting Linux distros and/or other ‘open’ operating systems for enterprise markets! Oh the irony.
Who would buy out SCO?
SCO has no assets, they sold everything except the lawsuits as assets.
No, it turns out that they have no basis whatsoever for the lawsuits. All that remains are the counterclaims, and RedHats lawsuit against SCO, all of which are now slam-dunk cases.
SCO is just a vast pile of misery and debt. Anyone buying SCO would just be buying all that liability.
Wasn’t SCO exactly that, before it kind-of turned wacko and started chewing on the hand that fed it? I seem to recall a “thing” named Caldera from the forgotten era…
Caldera had Ray Noorda, after he left Novell,buying DR-DOS and suing Microsoft almost immediately as he sat down in his chair. So, really, the wackiness started quite a long time ago. Of course, in those days, there was a real point to it, as Microsoft had manufactured ways to discourage DR-DOS users from using Windows 3.0 with DR-DOS 5.x and Windows 3.1 with DR-DOS 6.x.
Yes, they are die-hard like… Cockroaches.
The stock managed to lose another 60% yesterday:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SCOXQ.PK#chart2:symbol=scoxq….
Considering it’s already down to less than 10c, from about $100 ten years ago, I was amazed to find out it was still trading at all (I seem to recall it was pulled out, and reintroduced under a new name; it used to be SCOX if I remember correctly).
“Q” is added to the stock symbol when a company enters bankrupcy. The “PK” indicates that the stock is traded on the “Pink sheets,” likely because the stock is not qualified for any of the major stock exchanges.
I fondly recall that Caldera Linux was a GREAT desktop and Server OS. What possessed them to abandon an arguably successful Linux variant in favor of bolstering a tenuous grip on a dying UNIX product I will never understand.
Darl McBride deserves to be the most reviled individual in the annals of tech history. It is my greatest wish that he will never again have gainful employment in the software world because the man is an idiot.
I worked for a guy who claimed he was the one who came up with the idea to be able to play Tetris while the installation ran.
I’ve only ever seen this ‘feature’ on Caldera Linux. It was pretty awesome. Why can’t we have something similar now???
I worked for a guy who claimed he was the one who came up with the idea to be able to play Tetris while the installation ran.
I’ve only ever seen this ‘feature’ on Caldera Linux. It was pretty awesome. Why can’t we have something similar now???
Many of the newer generation Linux dists install from a LiveCD, so you can play games or surf while the install is running. It’s a cool idea, but at the same time I can usually find something to do for a few minutes (like make dinner, vacuum, watch TV, etc.).
How has this thing gone on this long? Does SCO have a single customer left, do they have any income at all?
What kind of zombie juice is SCO using to keep it going this long, I mean, both legs, both arms are blown off, the head is blown off, but the its somehow still moving.
So, who, or what is continuing to prop SCO up???
Sadly, i don’t think the is the last of SCO, somehow they will file another extension, appeal, or something to continue dragging this thing out.
The answer to your question:
http://www.sco.com/company/success/search.html?terms=&select_cat=7&…
A lot of the customers are quite obscure and the site tends not to reveal how old these “success stories” really are. But there you go, apparently there are still a select few who for whatever reason still rely on SCO’s products.