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Re: SCO's track record remains unblemished....> They even lost m$'s money along the way.... > Linux (and all open source) gained the understanding that it is important to track the ownership of all code contributions so that any future SCO wannabee's can be answered with full documentation. I am less sanguine. It is nice to see scox lose, even if it is over a decade after it has any relevance. As I have been saying for a long time, this is much more a msft scam, than scox scam. For msft, $100 million to stomp (if not eliminate) a competitor is money well spent. Let's not forget that some scox insiders, like Riamondi, were selling their shares when scox was at $16. None of the guilty have been really punished, and they never will be. As to insiders losing everything, and scox becoming worthless: scox lasted a lot longer, and scox's shares went up a lot higher, than would have happened without the scox scam. Msft is still doing the same IP scamming. Only now it may be more effective. Msft and redhat have partnered. This makes redhat - and only redhat - immune from patent infringement lawsuits from msft. Sound familiar? It should. It is the scox extortion racket all over again - only this time with more credibility. Of course, msft rarely sues in court, they don't have to. You either quietly settle, or get sued out of existence. Once non-redhat distros become irrelevant, msft may turn on redhat. Or, maybe not. I think msft is okay with competitors, as long as those competitors can be dealt with, and are not too threatening. In 1998, Apple seemed to be okay as a competitor. |
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129890 | Re: SCO's track record remains unblemished.... | mandelbrain | 15 | 2/10/2016 4:41:54 PM |