Wed 17 Oct 2007
We all know that SCO sucks. By extension, the people who work for that deplorable company also suck and because now SCO isn’t doing so well financially, SCO is laying off a bunch of employees. These people took the bet that SCO would win and now that SCO is losing, they’ll expect to pretend that nothing ever happened and jump to another job. Of course, they stood to gain a lot if SCO’s attempt to extort money out of the Linux world would have worked. Fortunately SCO’s plan has failed miserably. Sorry SCO employees, You can’t eat your cake and have it too (as the saying originally went) — no jobs for you!
October 17th, 2007 at 1:22 am
You may have a point about SCO higher-ups with stock options, but it may be overly harsh to apply that same logic to run-off-the-mill employees. Most of them are probably just honest, loyal employees who were just doing their jobs.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I agree with Jordy. Applying this to the employee base is a little harsh. They are no different than anyone else trying to make it big in a software company. Remember that your opinion about the company is just your opinion and you should never *wish* unemployment on anyone.
Just my $0.02…
October 17th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I think your analysis is very short sighted. I used to feel the same way, however, having met and talked with former SCO employees, I feel differently now.
Many of them do not agree with the lawsuit, but, they have a family to provide for. They also have a job that they enjoy doing. The vast majority of them are not involved in the lawsuit at all. Are you willing to quit your job with no other job to go to, just on principle? Maybe you currently work for a company that has business plans that I don’t agree with. Does that mean I should make a blanket statement of “Don’t hire laid off employees from XYZ, because their CEO makes bad business decisions.”?
October 17th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I don’t see the employees of SCO as victims. They’ve had ample time to find other employment (this train wreck has been a long time coming.) Put quite simply, they are implicitly supporting SCO’s rampage by working for SCO. IN a similar vein, I don’t buy the idea that Nazi soldiers were just following orders and that the blame rests solely upon the leadership. When defection is an option, as it certainly is with SCO programmers, and it is not taken, culpability trickles down to the rank and file.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
SCO as a company had many development groups, most were not focused on or familiar with details of the lawsuit.
SCO had other products that it purchased from other companies, with good honest employees working on good technologies.
They were just unfortunately working for SCO when management decided to pursue the stupid lawsuit.
I have never worked for SCO (and obviously wouldn’t), but I do have several friends who worked there (prior to the lawsuit and even during — gasp!), and your generalization is short-sighted and offensive.
Sure, you could say they had the opportunity to leave, but it’s not always as cut and dried as you make it out to be.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I don’t know why there are so many SCO apologists. It’s baffling. I suppose it’s comforting to SCO though. For most, when people are trying to kill us, we’re not overly concerned with our attackers’ welfare.
The fact is SCO can’t operate very well if they have no employees.
Defending employees of SCO is tantamount to defending the employees of pornographers. Actually, it’s even worse. Pornographers generally don’t want to shut down your company and tax you out of existence, they just want to corrupt you.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I’m not an SCO apologist, I hope they go under. The technologies that good people worked on at a bad company might then get bought by a company that can do something useful with them.
I think you’re just trolling at this point.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
you’re probably right.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I don’t think the author of this blog is alone in his thinking; and the SCO apologists need a history lesson.
SCO employees cannot be painted as helpless victims, lead blindly by a malevolent power hungry management — or that they went along as unwilling participants because they had families to feed (not to mention it all happened during a period in this country’s history when IT joys were the most prevalent).
Evidence exists that shows that not only did employees aid and abet this sham, but they did it willfully and with the same spirit as their SCO executives and leadership. The most compelling of all was demonstrated the anti-SCO protest held by the Provo Linux users group. Take a look at the signs SCO employees made at their own counter-protest outside SCO HQ in Lindon:
http://www.karlrees.com/sco/scoAntiProtest/index.html
The words written on these signs give insight into what SCO employees think about the open source world:
“Legalize Stupidity, smoke Linux”
“Give communism a try, Free Linux”
“Who’s down with OPIP? — Other people’s Intellectual Property”
“My son stole code & published it, and all i got was this lousy t-shirt!”
“I don’t pay for my music, I’m not paying for my OS. So sue me!”
“Stealing software is not a crime in Iraq and parts of France”
“I software piracy”
Your call folks, if you want these ignorant SOB’s working in your firm, go ahead and hire them. However, some people will never forget, and as long as I’m conducting interviews where I work, any mention of SCO on a resume will result in the applicant being escorted from the building.
Lets also please not forget the dispicable scumbags that served as expert testimony on behalf of SCO, let their names always be soiled with SCO:
Marc Rochkind and Thomas Cargill, et al
August 10th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
hah, last blog post could you subst s/joys/jobs/
thanks
August 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
sorry about the second post, i wish I did a proof-edit before clicking submit, could you also change
“I software piracy” to “I (heart symbol) software piracy”
and dispicable to “despicable”
thanks!