On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:43:58 -0500, Nucleon <tcfelker@mtco.com> wrote:

>Since yesterday or before, I can no longer access either sco.com or
>caldera.com. Across the net, many others are experiencing this, but
>nobody seems to know why. Does anyone know what's going on?

;-) It's a real shame isn't it? Sad to see such a useful source of
lies and threats shutdown. It's especially strange after their
hilarious attempts to steal Linux from the open source comunity, lie
about their code being stolen (when all evidence points to them
contributing the code themselves), then in a final act of desperation,
attempt to claim the GPL is invalid, since copyright law prohibits
more than one copy of any software! Oh yes, wasn't their major
announcement at their "big" annual conference the fact they were going
to be including Samba 3.0.x in their OS'? That would be the
Open-source Samba, you know, covered by the GPL. Oh I almost forgot,
they also bundle a great many open source tools with their crummy
systems to hide the fact their own stuff stinks!

Too bad they no longer have any revenue left to put into making their
products usable or competitive, since everything is paid to second
rate lawfirms, trying to defend them as the most reviled company in
the World.

I honestly can't believe anyone is still using this company's
operating systems - let's look at the facts:

1) Their own directors selling shares as quickly as possible.
The only reason SCOX stock is high is due to the amount of
short-stock. Noone in their right mind would buy it.
2) they're infringing upon IBM patents (which luckily cover
ALL their product lines ;-)
3) The entire OS community hate them, and support for SCO
products is likely to be removed from many projects.
4) The directors are likely to face jail terms for their
recent defamation and threats sent out to Linux users. Oh
yes, and for the stock price manipulation.
5) Their own products stink (believe me, moving from
OpenServer to Linux is like travelling 20 years forward
through time!)
6) Why pay per-seat licencing for an outdated OS, when Linux
is free, faster, supports much more hardware and all the
same software (and more)? Oh, and you get the source code!

Personally I believe sco.com should remain down to save these cretins
from further humiliation. Every time Darl Greedy McBride opens his
mouth it's just another avalanche of utter shit pouring out.

To anyone still running SCO software, you have my deepest
sympathies...