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Re: Will the EdgeClick Mobile App Platform Resurrect SCO?

  • Subject: Re: Will the EdgeClick Mobile App Platform Resurrect SCO?
  • From: BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:42:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 16:25 \__
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 15:22 \__
>>> 
>>>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> <snip />
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | "If people think SCO has gone crazy or 'MAD' it's now official,"
>>> | McBride said.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>                
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060808084608494
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <snip />
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes its true the UNIX warriers lack evidence, and the reason is as I have
>> said before, because they isn't any. The claims of interlectual property
>> being made is not property invented/created by sco, it was
>> invented/created by many programmers in many countries over many years,
>> in most cases I suspect the companies who owned the UNIX boxes had no
>> idea what was going on, they just thought their own programmers were
>> geniouses. We all shared code, ideas, algorithms. Sometimes directly,
>> sometimes in conferences sometimes programming magazines.
>> 
>> Simply because it was still the case that if you wanted software you had
>> to either pay huge sums or write it yourself, no one can know everything
>> about everything. So Hanz in Germany who was a comms expert would share
>> code with Holtz in Switzerland because he was really good with realtime
>> stuff and he
>> would share with Rob in England because he was really good at     erm
>> erm   well he was a good laugh in the hotel bar at a computer fair. I
>> know the communications path sounds small when put like that, but
>> actually everyone on mainframes knew many others on mainframes, it was
>> easier to keep track of who had what hardware simply because someone
>> buying a new one put an anouncement in a paper. 'Oh look, Hanz has just
>> got himself a Cray!', then we'd all be on to him wanting to know how fast
>> it goes.
>> 
>> All a bit silly looking back, but it really was the way it went, SCO
>> trying to claim ownership of this code is plain wrong. Like me spotting
>> that no one has actually registered the invention of the Wheel, so I
>> register it and charge every user for using them.
>> 
>> Actually, I wonder if anyone has?
>  
> Well... you never know....
> 
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Roy
> 

Goodness, I just tried and no one has registered The Wheel.


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