[vox] SCO suing IBM over their Linux activity

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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
> 
>