Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea

Ashcrow writes "SCO UNIX has long boasted its 'true UNIX' code base, but is that really the case? A story running at The Jem Report looks into SCO's claims and holds it up to other UNIX variants to try and find validity for SCO's claims." The author has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but worth reading for the comparison of various *nix's.

The SCO Linux Game

[Cyno01]

You play as SCO. [lycos.com]

Where are the graphs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares about "feature comparison" and stuff like that.. I want benchmarks! I want to look at the pretty pictures!

Re:The SCO Linux Game

[Anonymous Coward]

I kept poking for a solid 5 minutes, suggesting that the Linux community is slow to act on such issues.

Sick of optometry

[Ignominious Poltroon]

I can't believe slashdot has posted another article about SCO, the Southern College of Optomertry [sco.edu]. I mean, optometry is geeky, but I come here to read about asteroids and anime.

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"Has a bit of a chip on his shoulder"

[Anonymous Coward]

So he should fit right in at slashdot, right?

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Eagerly waiting to see what kind of outlandish thing SCO will do tomorrow.. they have to do something dramatic every monday, you know, or they'll fall out of the news...

SCO *is* the only true Unix.

[Anonymous Coward]

And Timothy Dalton is the only true Bond, and Deep Space Nine is the only true Star Trek, and Attack of the Clones is the only true Star Wars, and vi is the only true editor, and MySQL is the only true open source database.

That's all settled now. You're welcome.

Re:Why SCO UNIX is a bad idea.

[Anonymous Coward]

And as a server OS, SCO UNIXes are worse since not all of them (yes, they do have all different kinds - even worse) support such things as IPv6

IIt's not like the ISP is trampling down your door offering IPv6, is it?

Addendum

[tds67]

UnixWare and OpenServer are the only Unixes that I have listed in this article that...require you to pay for per-seat user licenses...

...no matter what operating system you're running.

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Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea

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Not only that...

[Greyfox]

SCO UNIX has been known to make machines explode for no reason at all. I used SCO UNIX for a couple of years and it made my penis shrink 3 inches! That's right people, SCO UNIX MAKES YOUR PENIS SHRINK! SCO is soley responsible for the weak support beans that caused the World Trade Center to collapse. Use of SCO UNIX has been known to cause spontaneous herpes. Adolph Hitler is reputed to have used SCO UNIX on his IBM counting machines. SCO UNIX is responsible for all the disease, hunger and misery in the world. All of the above is completely false and made up by me. Oh, by the way, the platform is also the most awful and badly programmed UNIX platform that it has ever been my misfortune to use.

I take Issue with all those statements except

[Anonymous Coward]

the one about vi being the only true editor. It is. But Timothy Dalton? Jeez, you could at least have said George Lazenby.

Very relavent

[einhverfr]

Whether or not SCO UNIX sucks or not has no actual bearing on their lawsuit.

Paragraph 84 of the complaint: Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car.

According to the article, it seems like Linux is the equivalent of a luxury car and SCO UNIX is the equivalent of a..... No, a bicycle is too kind of a description ;)

I once temporarily owned an old rundown Ford Econoline. The brakes needed replacing, the battery drained because sometimes the brake lights would stay on, and there was a short in the fuse box. Kind of reminds me of SCO UNIX ;)

This guy is an author?

[Anonymous Coward]

But there are so many more choices out there, the least of which offers a dearth of advantages over SCO's Unix products.

Umm...d'ya suppose he means "wealth"?

Re:1 800 726-8619 Give em an ear full

[Lord Prox]

pls mod up parent.
I'm posting this on in the company john.


Right, wrong, irrelevent. What is, is.

Re:1 800 867-5309 Ask for Jenny

[Luigi30]

No, mod this up. I want to talk to Jenny.

It's simple

[Jeremi]

Using SCO software is a bad idea for the same reason Windows is a bad idea -- if you feed the alligator, the best thing you can hope for is that he'll eat you last. Sooner or later, you will get bit.

Actually, SCO has a chip on their shoulder too...

[rushfan]

The comparason of different UNIX flavours is a bit interesting (although I like Solaris much better than AIX, I just wish Sun was a smarter company)

It is good to note that for a company who "owns" UNIX, their offerings do suck pretty bad... No wonder they are so tee'ed off at Linux.

Rushfan

Re:Missing?

[eric76]

OSX is not Unix.

It may have been somewhat based on UNIX, but the way Apple mucked it up, it is decidedly not UNIX any more.

Anything requiring you to configure the OS through graphics interfaces instead of editing a file is just not UNIX.