-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:33, Jesse Kline wrote: > So if they are only going after breach of contracts now, then why is > McBride threatening to sue Linus?
because McBride is a moron who doesn't know wtf he's talking about? because his sole intent is probably to pump (and likely dump) SCO stock, regardless of details like "ethics" and "truth"? > This from marketwatch (also reported on slashdot): > "McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's > property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing > the Linux operating system, for patent infringement." lol... that is amazingly silly. *shakes head* > I'm also wondering if United Linux is still alive. yes. > Turbolinux sold off > it's Linux assets shortly after the group was started, and now SCO has > cut its Linux division. So do SuSE and Conectiva really have any chance > of making a go of this thing? seeing as SuSe and Conectiva were the only two distributions of merit involved, i'd say yes. add to that the fact that UL has significant ISV support (e.g. Oracle, IBM and SAP), that SuSe is doing quite well these days, that the market and press considers SuSe/UL to be "the other commercial Linux distribution" (which really isn't all that fair to Mandrake, IMHO) .... - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1UuT1rcusafx20MRAt8CAKChJtlujHQ153Tqr4fwOlKu3pTfXwCfSjkg YzKBcCpCKCxZTzaRS/iUm30= =gHWD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
