[CLUE-Talk] SCO vs the computer industry

[Dennis J Perkins]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:17, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:47:13PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
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>>>>Oh, and now Linux is a terrorist tool?
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>>>That one really got me... They're really reaching for anything they can
>>>think of to smear Linux. 
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>>Not to play devil's advocate here (the SCO legal time is doing a fine job
>>of that :), but I seem to recall about five years ago that Iran had
>>reportedly set up a (Beowulf?) cluster for nuclear weapons research.
>>Supposedly it was the largest computing effort in the middle east at the
>>time.  Anyone else remember this, or did I have a Tom Clancy moment?
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>I don't recall that, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen. 
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>However, I still see this as a red herring -- the fact that a "rogue
>state" might download and use technology that's Open Source isn't really
>relevant. If they want a type of software that's commercially available
>badly enough, they can find a way to smuggle it in. 
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>Think about it -- before Iran can use SMP code, they'd have to get hold
>of SMP systems first...if they can can smuggle in multi-processor
>computers, (assuming that they're prohibited) they can certainly smuggle
>in SMP-capable OSes along with the computers. 
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>I really wish they'd get in front of a judge and get this over with. If
>there is any justice in the world, SCO will be bankrupt and McBride and
>Sontag will be relegated to working in fast food the rest of their lives
>after the shareholders sue them into oblivion for completely ruining
>SCO. I can't imagine anyone would do business with them after this is
>all over. 
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>Zonker
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And who knows if they are doing research using Windows or SCO Unix?  

In a way, I'll miss this when it's over.  It's been entertaining.