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[FYI] SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix



<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/02/2243207>

SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix

Posted by michael on Friday April 02, @06:56PM
from the no-truth-to-it dept.

dr3vil writes "eWeek publishes an interview with SCO's Darl McBride 
and Chris Sontag about the IBM lawsuit. SCO now claim that Linux is a 
'nonliteral implementation' of Unix, and compare their claim to those 
involving Harry Potter rip-offs and Vanilla Ice versus David Bowie 
and Queen." And ronaldb64 writes "Yahoo Business has a nice summary 
of the last couple of months of stock movement of SCO, and the 
reasons why. It contains quotes from business analysts ('Win or lose, 
the outcome is at least a couple of years away' - 'In the interim, we 
know the company is going to burn through its cash balance.'), the 
lack of interest in SCO licenses, the effect the license purchase of 
EveryOne Ltd. had, and its continuing battle with Novell. The 
explanation given by pro- and contra-SCO activists is interesting: 
the pro-SCO group (in the form of SCO CFO Robert Bench) says it is 
because SCO has been laying low lately, the contra-SCO group (in the 
form of Eben Moglen) says it is because investors are beginning to 
understand how weak SCO's case is." 

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