SCO Relies On IBM-donated Servers With Groklaw

Technician writes "It appears that SCO and Groklaw have the exact same tie to IBM: the ibiblio service. 'An eagle-eyed Groklaw ninja, sk43, has spotted an ftp site where you can get binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers who use lxrun. But you can't get the source code from that sco.com ftp site. SCO directs their customers to .... sunsite.unc.edu. Why bless my stars, sunsite.unc.edu is the old name for what is now ibiblio!'"

I'd say SCO's hoist on their own petard..

[SirFozzie]

... but I'm afraid that hook is buried where the sun don't shine.

Love Triangle

[kihjin]

Anyone else getting that old-junior-high-school drama vibe?


Did you hear about Becky? She's been with Dave.
Dave! But Dave's been seeing Sarah.
Dude that's my sister.
Well she's hot.
Shut up.


Cue the collective sigh from the rest of /.

a-HA

[SeaFox]

This can only mean one thing...

SCO is a front for IBM!

No, wait...

Let me be the first to say...

[FiniteElementalist]

Huh?

SCO will now sue themselves

[MSRedfox]

SCO will add themselves to the list of people being sued. They will then quickly settle with themselves thus proving that being hoisted on ibiblio is admission of guilt. It's the ultimate Catch-SCO-22.

Re:SCO will now sue themselves

[Workaphobia]

Well, the whole suit was just a means of controlling their stock price, so sueing themselves seems like the next logical step.

Re:The "exact same" ties?

[PopeRatzo]

You've just convinced me this story is too complicated for me to follow. You had me and then you lost me.

Re:I'd say SCO's hoist on their own petard..

[sentientbeing]

Mixing metaphors reaps you the most bang for your buck. You dont want to rock the waters.

Re:I'd say SCO's hoist on their own petard..

[trewornan]

You dont want to rock the waters.

Or take up arms against a sea of troubles.

Re:Stupidest SCO article ever.

[rbanffy]

It now proves IBM is also behind SCO and this whole trial is nothing but a PR tool so IBM can sell more AIX and zOS licenses.

Oh.. Wait...