Will the real UNIX owner please stand up?
May. 28th, 2003 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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For those who are wondering about the above song, the short version: There is a company called SCO who has sold UNIX for years. They haven't kept up with the times and have fallen by the wayside. Recently, they got a bug up their butt and said, "Oh, we *own* UNIX, and IBM is infringing on our intellectual property, as is the Linux operating system". They then proceeded to sue IBM, and are going on and on about wanting to sue RedHat and any other company that sells or even uses Linux. They've even gone so far as to start sending Cease and Desist letters to companies running Linux on their servers. There's other things, too, but they've already done a fine job of pissing off the Linux and free software communities. The most recent development, which led to the above song, was from Novell saying, "Uh, we own UNIX. Sit down, SCO".
It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, and whether IBM blackens the sky with lawyers or not. But regardless of what happens, I think SCO has done themselves in.
May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
Will the real UNIX Owner please stand up?
I repeat, will the real UNIX Owner please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here..
Y'all act like you never seen linux source code before
Jaws all on the floor like Bruce, like Linus just burst in the door
and started whoopin that SCO's ass worse than before
they were first with the source, throwin it over IBM (Ahh!)
It's the return of the... "Ah, wait, no way, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?"
And Novell Man said... nothing you idiots!
Novell Man's dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)
Kernel lovin men love Novell too
SCO UNIX, I'm sick of it
Look at them, walkin around suing users' you-know-what
Flippin the you-know-who, "Yeah, but he's so cute though!"
Yeah, SCO probably got a couple of screws up in the head loose
But no worse, than what's goin on in their corporate boardrooms
Sometimes, I wanna get on Slashdot and just let loose, but can't
but it's cool for Cowboy Neal to spread his lie caboose
"My source is on your lips, my source is on your lips"
And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what an OS's source code is
Of course they gonna know what linux source is
By the time they hit fourth grade
They got the Discovery Channel don't they?
"We ain't nothing but hackers.." Well, some of us are slackers
who cut other people open like smashed crackers But if we can hack a dead OS and take our source
then there's no reason that a man and his penguin can't recourse
But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote
Men here wave anti-SCO flags, sing the chorus and it goes
I'm UNIX Owner, yes I'm the real Owner
All you other UNIX Owners are just lying loaners
So won't the real UNIX Owner please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?
For those who are wondering about the above song, the short version: There is a company called SCO who has sold UNIX for years. They haven't kept up with the times and have fallen by the wayside. Recently, they got a bug up their butt and said, "Oh, we *own* UNIX, and IBM is infringing on our intellectual property, as is the Linux operating system". They then proceeded to sue IBM, and are going on and on about wanting to sue RedHat and any other company that sells or even uses Linux. They've even gone so far as to start sending Cease and Desist letters to companies running Linux on their servers. There's other things, too, but they've already done a fine job of pissing off the Linux and free software communities. The most recent development, which led to the above song, was from Novell saying, "Uh, we own UNIX. Sit down, SCO".
It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, and whether IBM blackens the sky with lawyers or not. But regardless of what happens, I think SCO has done themselves in.
