SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris?

kripkenstein writes "We have just heard that the SCO fiasco is finally going to end for Linux. But Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at DesktopLinux.com points out that the favorable result for Linux may cause unpleasant consequences for rival open-source operating system OpenSolaris: 'At one time, Sun was an SCO supporter ... Sun's Jonathan Schwartz — then Sun VP of software and today Sun's president and CEO — said in 2003 that Sun had bought "rights equivalent to ownership" to Unix. SCO agreed. In 2005, SCO CEO Darl McBride said that SCO had no problem with Sun open-sourcing Unix code in what would become OpenSolaris. "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem with it," McBride said. "What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights." Sun now has a little problem, which might become a giant one: SCO never had any Unix IP to sell. Therefore, it seems likely that Solaris and OpenSolaris contains Novell's Unix IP.'"

You're not getting off *that* easy.

[Novell$699FeeTroll]

Don't forget ...to pay US your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.

Re:McBride: "...we have no problem with it..."

[tomhudson]

"the UNIX copyrights are a horrible mess that no one in their right mind would dig into (or sue over)"

Oh, great - the insanity defense ... :-)

... because the stupidity defense won't work, and the truth that they're a bunch of lying cheating swindling dickheads [trolltalk.com] (do NOT click!) will hang them.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[poopdeville]

Hurd is good enough for Richard Stallman. I'll pass.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[ricegf]

No, rms uses Gnu/Linux, you heathen!

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[cyber-vandal]

Can I ask you something? Is 2005 really so hard to say/type that you say/type 2K5 instead?

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[Get Behind the Mule]

... and so development is slow.

My friend, you may be a champion in the Understatement of the Century Contest.

Sure, there are many entirely respectable reasons why Hurd never got finished.

But, ah, erm ... ... you see, I feel an acute sense of embarassment when I'm about to point out something that is obvious. So blindingly obvious that it feels preposterous to have to say it at all. But, here goes.

It's time to give up!

The Hurd project has failed! Blue blazes, tarnation and a monkey, it's been seventeen fucking years!

There are software projects for which a delay of seventeen days is intolerable, although that is usually salvageable. A project that is seventeen weeks too late, on the other hand, is universally recognized as a failure.

And we all know about projects that come in seventeen months too late. We all know that someone, somewhere in a project like that was thoroughly incompetent.

There are simply no words, no satire, no amount of acid-tongued vituperation that could do justice to a software development project that still isn't finished after seventeen years.