On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0400, jeff wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 12:21, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > SCO's twisting in the wind. To find out just how poorly conceived the
> > entire effort was in the first place, with SCO's UNIX offering actually
> > potentially in violation of the GPL, is just icing on the cake. The
> > absurdity of SCO's fight for survival at this point is mind-boggling.
>
> They have no choice now. They are in so deep that to back out and drop
> everything means certain death. The only possible option that they have left
> is to keep up the current strategy and pray that by some miracle they can
> escape total destruction in court. Even then, the damage has already been
> done. No one in their right mind would even consider touching any product(s)
> that tSCOg have to offer after this mess. And, if the rest of their product
> line isn't any better than OpenLinux was, they haven't a prayer of staying in
> business anyway.
Yeah, that's pretty much my analysis. Add to that the fact that every
reference I've heard to UnixWare seems to indicate that it's rather
crappy and limited, and the prospects seem to indicate certain doom of a
quite uncomfortable sort.
Sell your SCO stock, if you haven't already. The writing's on the wall,
as they say.
-- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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