OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic

Loser · #1 May 28th, 2003, 08:00 PM

Now it gets dirty. It seems that no one but SCO knows what code they are suing over. I believe SCO has said they do not want to give away their case before court time and are keeping the offending code to themselves until then. So everybody is just guessing as to what exact intellectual property SCO is complaining about. So SOC could have just blown themselves out of the water by keeping secrets. At the end of the first link, look at the word extort, I think it should be exhort. A big difference between the two words, but the spell checker doesn't care.

Novell to Try to Shoot Down SCO IP Claims.

"We Intend to Aggressively Continue," SCO Responds to Novell

This is cutthroat: neat and clever and very, very vicious. I guess MS isn't worried about backlash: no one who might care is neutral. Anyone who might react to this sort of assault is already against MS. That's the way I see it anyway.

I had heard a few things about SCO and what it was doing, but I didn't know MS was involved. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out. Again, I might not care for their goals (I am opposed to them, even), but I can certainly respect this sort of maneuver.

Now, what are the courts going to do with it?

tbontob · #2 May 28th, 2003, 10:35 PM

Sorry guys. Had a new source of info. But can't get the URL to work properly.

EDIT:

OK, I can't take you directly to the articles in question, but you can get to the main site at
eWeek

RE-EDIT:

A particularly interesting article is "SCO Deserves Public Scolding"

Another interesting article is on the University of Calgary's intention of giving a course on how to code viruses.

[ May 28, 2003, 22:17: Message edited by: tbontob ]

Will · #3 May 29th, 2003, 02:03 AM

Ok, I haven't really heard much about this issue, only those two articles (eWeek article is refusing to load) and a CNN report about a week ago, but...

I fail to see exactly how Microsoft is involved in this. Does MS own SCO? Or am I missing something? The only way I see MS attached to this at all is that Linux/UNIX are it's largest competitors in the PC operating system market, which would imply only a very indirect involvement. Is that it?

--edit: Ok, got the actual article to load now. Before, the connection would time out any time I tried going beyond the eWeek homepage.

[ May 29, 2003, 04:23: Message edited by: Will ]

Baron Munchausen · #4 May 29th, 2003, 02:44 AM

Microsoft has 'recognized' SCO's claims by buying a license, just in time to finance the lawsuit(s) with payments. And has expressed support for their position publicly.

[ May 29, 2003, 01:45: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

tbontob · #5 May 29th, 2003, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Will:
Ok, I haven't really heard much about this issue, only those two articles (eWeek article is refusing to load) and a CNN report about a week ago, but...

I fail to see exactly how Microsoft is involved in this. Does MS own SCO? Or am I missing something? The only way I see MS attached to this at all is that Linux/UNIX are it's largest competitors in the PC operating system market, which would imply only a very indirect involvement. Is that it?

Will. I did have some problems posting the URL to e-week when I creatd the post. I tested it some hours ago and it worked and tested it again just now.

Are you still having problems with it?

minipol · #6 May 29th, 2003, 10:28 PM

As i understand, SCO is whining about code in Linux distro's that would be there intellectual property. So if this goes through that would be great for MS because Linux is gaining on MS specially in the server market.
SCO are a bunch of idiots. I hope they lose their case.