Re: No longer supporting Unixware / Open Server

From: Brian (brian_at_stanley-park.com)
Date: 01/28/04

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    Brian K. White wrote:
    > Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com> wrote...
    >> Announcement to all SCO Group Customers and users of Unixware and Open
    >> Server. ---

    >> The SCO Group (SCOG) has posted two of my Linux Documentation Project
    >> HOWTOs on one of its servers. These are the "Advanced-Bash HOWTO"
    >> (version 0.3, obsolete) and the "Software-Building HOWTO."
     
    >> The URLs are:

    http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/en/AdvBashHowto/

    http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/en/Howto/Software-Building/Software-Building-HOWTO.html

    >> I have asked SCOG to remove these documents of mine from their site. No
    >> response.
     
    >> Because of the open license that these documents were released under, I
    >> cannot legally force SCOG to remove them. However...
     
    >> I will give no support to SCOG employees, customers, or users of Unixware
    >> or Open Server. If you have any questions or need any help on the topics
    >> covered by the above documents, you are to contact SCOG customer service.
     
    > Gee that's mature.

    Bwahahahahahahahahahaha...

    That is rich coming from an SCO keener.

    > People have been using sco Unix for many many more years than the
    > current management has been in place. All those people, who made a
    > sound decision to work with a good company, suddenly they all get
    > "***" stamped on their foreheads out of the blue and deserve to be
    > mistreated?

    Out of the blue? Have you been keeping up with current events BW?

    And how does requesting his intellectual property rights be respected make
    the OP guilty of mistreatment?

    > And people wonder why I refuse to allow linux into the professional
    > work environments I'm responsible for?

    Probably because you are a clueless twit.

    Linux is superior in every way to SCO Unix - after all, we have that 80
    lines of System V code running in our kernel...

    Bwahahahahahahaha

    > Happily though, I happen to already know that your attitude is
    > merely one of a very vocal but happily very minor minority.

    You wish.

    SCO revenues from it's *legitimate* Unix business has halved in one year.

    Minor minority - do you mean a minority of minors?

    > What would be your next move then, since you can't take back your
    > marbles? How about sabotage? How about putting subtle errors in the
    > how-to so that the directions are correct for everyone else, but if
    > executed on a sco box would fail, perhaps doing damage along the way?
    > Yeah man, that'll really stick it to those pig-vomit sco users. yeah
    > man. yeah.

    Yeah, it's not like SCO is trying to hurt anybody.

    What could the OP be thinking?

    > Rock on, Beavis.

    I thought SCO was the chumpion of intellectual property rights! Where do
    they get off deploying a web page against the wishes of the author and
    rightful owner.

    Could it be that SCO has a double standard? You know, where on the one hand
    the GPL and other open source licenses allow them to include all kinds of
    cool services and applications they have never developed themselves but on
    the other hand have actively castigated and deplored such licenses in every
    public forum that will have them.

    SCO lies cheats and steals!

    Anybody that actively supports SCO is guilty by association of the same
    crimes. I don't buy this "I'm only doing my job"... it sounds too much like
    "I was only following orders."

    So listen BW, the next time your feelings get hurt by some guy trying to
    protect his clearly identified intellectual property, give your head a
    shake and Grow Up!

    I await the 6th of February with great anticipation... I think SCO is going
    down!

    If you think IBM and Linux supporters are tough, wait until you see what the
    recent SCO investors are going to do; these guys make great white sharks
    look like Victorian tea drinkers.

    I smell blood, don't you?

    8^)

    The Other Brian

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