5 definitions by Phirkel
by Phirkel May 23, 2003
Noun.
1. Acronym for the Santa Cruz Operation.
2. A company with little or no moral codes, with horribly dishonest PR workers (Blake Stowell) and who uses the media to boost their already inflated stock price. This company seeks to charge money for Linux because it supposedly contains stolen lines of UNIX System V code, however, they have yet to prove their accusations in the form of lines of stolen code, documentation, etc.
3. A business model which is based on an RIAA-like model of "sue and alienate customers", however, involves taking large companies to court and just randomly sending out licensing requests for software which they don't hold the copyrights for.
1. Acronym for the Santa Cruz Operation.
2. A company with little or no moral codes, with horribly dishonest PR workers (Blake Stowell) and who uses the media to boost their already inflated stock price. This company seeks to charge money for Linux because it supposedly contains stolen lines of UNIX System V code, however, they have yet to prove their accusations in the form of lines of stolen code, documentation, etc.
3. A business model which is based on an RIAA-like model of "sue and alienate customers", however, involves taking large companies to court and just randomly sending out licensing requests for software which they don't hold the copyrights for.
by Phirkel February 1, 2004
by Phirkel May 9, 2003
Acronym for Silicon Graphics Incorporated. A company which sells high-performance computing solutions which run an operating system based on System V called IRIX. This is an example of a company that is rapidly moving to adopt Linux on their computers, because they heavily disagree with SCO's litigation of companies, when they have no evidence to stand on to support their case.
by Phirkel February 1, 2004
by Phirkel December 11, 2003