[vox] SCO suing IBM over their Linux activity
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vox@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 30 May 2003 15:53:35 -0700 (PDT)
No, it couldnt. There were Pet stores online before pets.com, just not
doing things on its scale. That doesnt make it innovative, just a bigger
gamble (for the VCs stupid enough to drop the 7-8 figure sums of cash into
it). Innovation (at least in my universe) is more than just the trivial
novelty of 'the new'.
z
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Fri 30 May 03, 2:17 PM, zeruch@damagestudios.com <zeruch@damagestudios.com> said:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > >
> > > Funny. In the 90's, when everything everywhere was booming, the way to
> > > make money was to innovate.
> >
> > No, if was to obfuscate via marketing, unless you consider Pets.com
> > innovative.
>
> sure, it absolutely could be.
>
> putting up a commercial pet site right now wouldn't be innovative, but
> the first few people to do it were certainly innovative.
>
> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
>
> innovate
> v : bring something new to an environment.
>
>
> > > Now, in the early 2000's, the way to make
> > > money is to stifle innovation. Damn shame.
> >
> > the US is a pretty damn litigious nation. ANd when you are as desperate
> > as SCO, you will reort to dumb things....although this stunt goes from
> > dumb straight to fscktarded.
>
> maybe, maybe not.
>
> if IBM buys SCO out to "shut them up", the stockholders might be very
> grateful...
>
> pete
>
>