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:ComputerWeekly: SCO is Right to Go After Linux Users
ComputerWeekly: SCO is Right to Go After Linux Users
Oct 16, 2003, 01 :00 UTC (37 Talkback[s]) (13427 reads)

(Other stories by Dominic Connor)

"Most Computer Weekly readers are paid to increase the value of their employer's business. We sometimes fail, this is IT after all, but we are not paid to indulge our view of society. And so it is surprising that SCO has been so vilified in its attempts to assert its claimed intellectual property rights over Linux.

"I do not know what the result of the SCO versus IBM case will be, but I do know that SCO chief executive Darl McBride and his company are doing what they are paid for in demanding that all users of Linux containing the 2.4 kernel must pay a licence fee or face legal action..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
This article is meaningless."Darl's  ...   Doesn't actually say anything...   
BC
Oct 16, 2003, 01:28:34
 
I do know that SCO chief executive Darl  ...   What he is paid to do   
David Johnson
Oct 16, 2003, 01:45:44
 
Dragging this through the media is the r ...   Just Wish SCO Would Go Faster   
dave
Oct 16, 2003, 01:47:07
 
This is a content-free puff piece design ...   Desperate for web hits   
M
Oct 16, 2003, 01:50:37
 
And the mafia was right to extort protec ...   Sure...   
GreyGeek
Oct 16, 2003, 02:05:07
 
That an illiterate can make these assert ...   Blowhard, bombast or something inbetween?   
Joe User
Oct 16, 2003, 02:13:06
 
SCO has the right to have their property ...   The brainiacs in Lindon, Utah   
I R A Darth Aggie
Oct 16, 2003, 02:22:03
 
That is the question. Whether tis nobler ...   To click or not to click...   
Shake-n-bake
Oct 16, 2003, 02:30:11
 
Well, not exactly the same old crap. He  ...   Same old crap. "What if SCO wins?"   
Brandioch Conner
Oct 16, 2003, 02:31:34
 
This is just a harshly presented pro-sco ...   Not really worth the read.   
E. A. Zen
Oct 16, 2003, 02:32:44
 
SCO hasn't proven anything except th ...   Proof before the invoice please   
Alex Chejlyk
Oct 16, 2003, 02:44:32
 
The author, a bond broker, states:> SCO  ...   This guy is a plant?   
Dennis G. Allard
Oct 16, 2003, 02:47:31
 
The reason SCO is so vilified is that no ...   the company has the duty to be ethical   
anonymous
Oct 16, 2003, 02:51:45
 
"SCO has a duty to assert its claims ove ...   SCO's Duty   
Robert Thorsby
Oct 16, 2003, 02:52:55
 
Thank SCO for having tested the GPL ?... ...   Thank you SCO for the test.. . .   
GH
Oct 16, 2003, 02:59:51
 
Yeah, SCO is right just like Enron was r ...   SCO is right? FUD alert...   
Tom
Oct 16, 2003, 03:15:29
 
Brigham Young gave my Great Great Grandf ...   My license is irrevocable   
Armand Winter
Oct 16, 2003, 03:27:25
 
So if Darl McBride claimed that Dominic  ...   question for Dominic   
Tony Lai
Oct 16, 2003, 03:37:27
 
I wasted 30 seconds of my life clicking  ...   OMG! I can't believe...   
OMG
Oct 16, 2003, 04:07:24
 
MOve alove nothing to see here. Has no i ...   bond brokers.. sheesh   
steel
Oct 16, 2003, 04:26:30
 
Does this guy know what he's talking ...   SCO doing users favor?   
Jim
Oct 16, 2003, 04:34:38
 
or most likely 4) someone in the family  ...   Re: My license is irrevocable   
kws
Oct 16, 2003, 05:04:54
 
+AGAAYA-The author, a bond broker, state ...   Re: This guy is a plant?   
Richard N. Turner
Oct 16, 2003, 05:05:38
 
Dominic Connor is head of IT at King & S ...   more drivel from gamblers..er..financial analysts   
kws
Oct 16, 2003, 05:09:51
 
Dear Mister Conner,.Its all well and goo ...   My letter   
Tim Dion
Oct 16, 2003, 05:29:48
 
If Darl McBride were to do any of the fo ...   Let me get this right ...   
SteveOC
Oct 16, 2003, 05:52:16
 
Dominic Connor is head of IT at King & S ...   SCO is right???   
j7915
Oct 16, 2003, 05:59:57
 
If SCO is right to go after linux users, ...   If SCO is right to go after   
james
Oct 16, 2003, 06:39:55
 
Strange that ComputerWeekly should run t ...   Timing is just a coincidence...   
Cassandra
Oct 16, 2003, 07:55:57
 
Send ComputerWeekly an invoice demanding ...   Duh   
Wanton
Oct 16, 2003, 08:47:27
 
Fine. We accept that Darl is paid to max ...   Maximizing stockholder value?   
Jacek Piskozub
Oct 16, 2003, 09:26:03
 
First the Forbes article... Then the buy ...   Anyone else seeing a pattern here?   
Jimmy the Geek
Oct 16, 2003, 09:33:59
 
The only sentence worth reading is the l ...   Re: Not really worth the read.   
Gern Blanston
Oct 16, 2003, 11:22:09
 
written by a reader of the magazine.Sear ...   Hey - it's an Opinion Piece   
Wol
Oct 16, 2003, 13:03:24
 
Well... there's one thing I learned  ...   Never do business with ComputerWeekly   
Jeff
Oct 16, 2003, 14:36:23
 
SCO does not have any legal right to go  ...   Companies right to cancell Computer Weekly Subscri   
SM
Oct 16, 2003, 17:06:46
 
It is minimally worth the read for 3.8%  ...   I stand corrected   
E. A. Zen
Oct 16, 2003, 17:31:34
 
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