...making me feel old! :-D
![]() ...making me feel old! :-D -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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![]() Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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![]() https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settlement/ The bankrupt remnants of the SCO group finally threw in the towel, but the new owners of the assets are continuing the fun. |
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![]() Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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![]() Yeah, I saw that too, and I thought it was pretty weird. Because as I recall it the "assets" they bought, whatever they were supposed to be, were supposed to explicitly exclude anything that might make a continuation of these shenanigans possible. Dunno where I got that from, though; as Alex says, it's been a while. (Maybe from Groklaw? :-) -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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![]() ... this is Xinuos' opinion First, IBM stole Xinuos' intellectual property and used that stolen property to build and sell a product to compete with Xinuos itself," the US Virgin Islands-based software biz claims in its complaint. "Second, stolen property in IBM's hand, IBM and Red Hat illegally agreed to divide the relevant market and use their growing market powers to victimize consumers, innovative competitors, and innovation itself. It is the warmed over SCO complaint with some anti-trust sauce poured on. |