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( Amish Information Systems is OfQuack certified until, roughly, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:00, archived)

ahahahaha
*so* true
SCO could definitely do with it, might save them a bob or two ;)
( Mushroom, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:03, archived)

What do SCO do?

( Christian Bale of Hay in a field, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:07, archived)

they sue people
because they invented computers and they get terribly jealous

bless 'em
( muteboy, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:10, archived)

gah!
crawl out from under your rock, and try google.

(they sell Unix)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
(meejahor, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:15, archived)

the got attacked by the mydoom virus
written by pissed-off unix users who SCO claimed had to pay up for using unix, which they claim to have invented.

or something
( meak is going to inherit the earth, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:18, archived)

What do SCO do?
They have an elderly version of Unix which isn't selling too well. They also claim that some of this elderly Unix code (which they may or may not own) has been copied to Linux illegally (which they are distributing anyway), and that the GPL license (which they use to distribute Linux) is unconstitutional (which it isn't), and that they will sue end users of Linux (who weren't party to any alleged wrongdoing in the first place).

In other words, all very much legal-mouth-and-no-trousers up to this point (and any trousers they have waved above the parapet have been shredded by eagle-eyed Linux developers).

Groklaw has more details than you will ever need.

(Allegedly, IMHO, IANAL and other disclaimers.)
( Amish Information Systems is OfQuack certified until, roughly, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 16:28, archived)