Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit 260
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timothy
from the hard-faced-two-word-gesture dept.
from the hard-faced-two-word-gesture dept.
gaurab writes "A survey on Internetweek says 'SCO's Linux lawsuit and threats seem to be having little affect on IT managers except to make them angry. Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions.' The article is also available at Yahoo!"
The principle of least resistance (Score:5, Informative)
If SCO wins, we'll worry about changing our approach. Since this hasn't occurred, we're not going to act like it already has.
Why would they do anything else? Let's start laying our developers and support teams off because SCO MIGHT be able to shut us down.
Even if SCO wins, the Linux corporations will likely find another path to offer what they've offered in the past: a quality software alternative to windows.
Is this really news?
Subject never came up (Score:5, Informative)
Re:9% is a lot (Score:3, Informative)
What gets me, however, is that the lawsuit filed by SCO doesn't talk about the same code being anywhere. It talks about technologies that IBM and its subsideraries developed for "UNIX" systems.
Correct if I am wrong, but the whole suit is about the original license from ATT that states that they own all derivative works of UNIX.
Everything else is just a red herring.
Yes, but these are REAL people (Score:3, Informative)
It affected us for sure... :-( (Score:2, Informative)