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Grex Cyberpunk Item 184: IBM SUED FOR $1,000,000,000!!!
Entered by fragkern on Wed Apr 23 12:49:26 UTC 2003:

IBM is being sued for $1,000,000,000!!! Yes, that's $1BILLION!!! By who, you
may ask? SCO!!! Why, you may ask? 'Misuse of proprietary UNIX secrets in their
Linux contributions'. If IBM loses, they lose $1B and keep the connections
between Unix and Linux. If SCO loses, the ties between Unix and Linux are
severed, which one's best?

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by mr0smith on Tue May 6 00:47:04 2003:

 Well, I trust IBM more than I trust the Amish, but I abandoned God and
worship UNIX now. Hmmm...tough call. Or maybe I'm a loon? Either way, I say
we find the weight of a full monkey's bladder, and save the whales.

#2 of 6 by stormy on Fri Jul 18 02:45:53 2003:

Die IBM, you deserved to be sued. .

#3 of 6 by fragilek on Sat Nov 15 19:00:56 2003:

May I remind you that if it wasn't for IBM linux would still be in Linus
Torvald's basement probably with extremely basic hardware support and nowhere
near the performance and stablity it posseses now.

#4 of 6 by scott on Sat Nov 15 19:27:20 2003:

Er, no.

#5 of 6 by fragilek on Mon Nov 17 20:17:40 2003:

And why not?

#6 of 6 by drart on Fri Mar 5 21:19:57 2004:

Well guess it was the inverse Smith, if it wasn for Linux ibm would go to the
basement

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