[Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

[Theron Conrey]

I'd argue that point.  I'm pretty sure that a company as big as McD would benefit from just buying the remaining bits of software that SCO actually owns that runs their environment rather then migrating.  There's a reason that Sun purchased star office (and then began open sourcing) rather than deploy windows office .  However, a fantastic kicking would be delivered if McD (or another company) bought what was left and open sourced whatever code they could find that was worth anything.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

Why would you buy them? It would be cheaper for McDonalds to switch to Windows then buy SCO. Why continue the fight? They've obviously been beaten -there's no "revenue" to be gained.

:)  Dave

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 +0000, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I would be concerned about a SCO-friendly company with deep pockets
> buying them and continuing the fight.  You have to wonder how many
> people are left at the company and what the SCO-faithful still look
> like.  Article Says McDonald's is a client.  Why don't they buy them?
>
> -Nate
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan C. Bailey [mailto:jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:30 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
>
> I just read that and thought of Monty Python...
>
> "Bring out yer dead!"
>
>
>
> -Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Champion" <dchampion at visionary.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 8, 2007 1:21:59 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
>
> Just FYI, SCO isn't dead yet...
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi
> c&arti
> cleId=304668&source=NLT_OS&nlid=41
>
> Darl: "It's like the Linux faithful are lined up for the bad news.
> They've got their confetti ready to throw, and everybody's all excited."
>
> Anyone know where I can get some good confetti?
>
> -dc
>
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