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While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

Thank you for your attention.

From the page:

While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

Thank you for your attention.

From the page:

While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

Thank you for your attention.

Well since I've been obsessed a little with litigious bastards too much lately, maybe not mentioning litigious bastards too often might even help me stop obsessing over litigious bastards.

Eh... Doing my bit for the google bomb.

Also. Be cool if linus did move to australia. could even give him a beer to fix my dvd driver issue. Yeah.

Rather think bout that than litigious bastards

Well since I've been obsessed a little with litigious bastards too much lately, maybe not mentioning litigious bastards too often might even help me stop obsessing over litigious bastards.

Eh... Doing my bit for the google bomb.

Also. Be cool if linus did move to australia. could even give him a beer to fix my dvd driver issue. Yeah.

Rather think bout that than litigious bastards

Well since I've been obsessed a little with litigious bastards too much lately, maybe not mentioning litigious bastards too often might even help me stop obsessing over litigious bastards.

Eh... Doing my bit for the google bomb.

Also. Be cool if linus did move to australia. could even give him a beer to fix my dvd driver issue. Yeah.

Rather think bout that than litigious bastards

Well since I've been obsessed a little with litigious bastards too much lately, maybe not mentioning litigious bastards too often might even help me stop obsessing over litigious bastards.

Eh... Doing my bit for the google bomb.

Also. Be cool if linus did move to australia. could even give him a beer to fix my dvd driver issue. Yeah.

Rather think bout that than litigious bastards

Heh, I submitted the same story (rejected) probably because I said that Linus even has something to say about the litigious bastards and I put it right there in the blurb... still its way cool to see that somebody got the story through.

With a little bit more effort, even so -called "dummies" will be able to work with it as well.

Some dummies already do.

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So I searched for a local distributor (Cambridgeshire), and I found just one.

These guys use the public Extreme tracker, and according to the stats, this UK distie's sub-site on SCO's has only ever had ONE UNIQUE visitor in the last 20 months!

I looked through some of the UK disties (after guessing the correct URL's because SCO didn't list them properly!), and didn't find ONE that had SCO clearly visible on their website, and a few of them clearly sell other unixes (didn't find linux mentioned though :-(

So, I conclude that SCO are a spent force in the UK and should be laughed at.

From the SCO FAQ

41. I am running BSD. Am I required to purchase a license?

No, you do not need to purchase a SCO IP license to run BSD.

So who cares? Run BSD and avoid SCO. In fact, when SCO contacts you, claim you ARE running Linux, then point out you are running the BSD version of Linux when its time to sign the agreement.

So...give 'em back!

Here's what you'll need:
1) scrounge up all your old Caldera CD's, manuals, etc.
2) get some bricks (has to fit in mailbox)
3) boxes to hold said bricks
4) magic marker (scratch'n'sniff is good)
5) duct tape
6) *optional* dog shit

Next, tape a cd to the brick (you may need to snap an edge off the cd, so be sure you have an exacto knife), box it, and write SCO's mailing address in the top left corner of the box. Sending address can be anything you want (I suggest 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA...blah blah - look it up). Mail it.

SCO mailing address

As far as I know they cannot make these claims in the UK either, which is probably why they are making press releases from Utah while their UK website has no mention of them offering licenses. If anyone knows of any SCO advertising material related to this "offer" that is produced specifically for or in the UK, please post details below.

• Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

• Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

• Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's menace to the Free Software community, I don't think simply putting the company out of business is likely to prevent us from being threatened this way again by other companies who are enemies to our community. I feel we need to send a stronger message.

If we all work together, we can put the executives of the SCO Group in prison where they belong.

If you live in the U.S., please write a letter to your state Attorney General. If you live elsewhere, please write your national or provincial law enforcement authorities. Please ask that the SCO Group be prosecuted for criminal fraud and extortion.

I, for one, welcome out new litigious bastards overlords!

if not then follow this link to find a whole bunch of litigious bastards.

Those litigious bastards seem to need a boost after having turned in 60 pages -- which has all the infringing code, enough legalese to satisfy crack smoking hallucinators, and STILL be able to justify not having a complete offering because everyone took the month of December off.

That reminds me of how I used to write my essays -- 3 page essays and all I have was one quote from Candide...so you paraphrase and stretch it out, use it 5 different times just to make it look all professional and lengthy.

So now the planet is liable to SCO. Hopefully Spirit is running Linux up there on mars so we can get Boies, McBride, etc. to be the first manned mars mission volunteers so they can collect their $699.

Those litigious bastards seem to need a boost after having turned in 60 pages -- which has all the infringing code, enough legalese to satisfy crack smoking hallucinators, and STILL be able to justify not having a complete offering because everyone took the month of December off.

That reminds me of how I used to write my essays -- 3 page essays and all I have was one quote from Candide...so you paraphrase and stretch it out, use it 5 different times just to make it look all professional and lengthy.

So now the planet is liable to SCO. Hopefully Spirit is running Linux up there on mars so we can get Boies, McBride, etc. to be the first manned mars mission volunteers so they can collect their $699.

SCO is the company formerly known as "Caldera Systems". the money from the microsoft settlement went to "Caldera Inc."

according to this register arcticle:

"There is not even a financial link between Caldera Systems and Caldera Inc,"

and the company that purchased old SCO's unix busines was Caldera Systems (Official history here). that's why they were so desperate to pump up the stock and to get that $50 mil financing from baystar capital (apparently baystar is backed up by several companies, including microsoft). they were running out of money from pre-ipo financings and ipo money. according to linuxworld they had only $4 million left to pay the bills.

When posting articles, please link SCO correctly by using the Slashdot-preferred link, litigious bastards. Thank you.

I sure do hope that these litigious bastards will finally get the miserable end they deserve! Do you suppose the judge will scoff at this nonsense now?

a) all the code in Unix to which SCO claims rights and has been misappropriated by IBM, and

b) all the code in Linux, by file name and line number, that SCO claims rights to, whoever contributed it.

They did have to disclose to IBM. But IBM now have to plough through whats been disclosed..

Well, according to the litigous bastards themselves, they've handed over "60 pages" to IBM.

That seems to imply that 60 pages 70 of info, and given that the court ordered them to specify files, lines of code, ownership and a LOT of other information.. I'd be suprized to see much in there.
It's hardly "millions of lines of code" by any stretch of the imagination. Or at least not "with specificity" (as the court ordered)

It turns out that SCO have indeeed complied with discovery and turned over 60 pages. So much for the million lines of code. Read more as usual over at Groklaw

It might be hard to beat metallica, but here's doing my part. Litigious bastards

I'm too lazy to go to another site to get my news, especially for information on the litigious bastards. I prefer to just let it come to me. Hence those people are doing me a service, and if I had mod points, they would likely get some of them. Quit your whining about karma whoring. The decision to make karma a part of slashdot was a decision to support karma whoring.

The movement to link litigious bastards to http://www.sco.com/ would be more interesting if we all let SCO know exactly how you feel. Make sure your link says http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious%20bastards. (The query parameter will naturally appear in their server logs.)

The movement to link litigious bastards to http://www.sco.com/ would be more interesting if we all let SCO know exactly how you feel. Make sure your link says http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious%20bastards. (The query parameter will naturally appear in their server logs.)

You guys sure are a bunch of litigious bastards! Darl, please calm down! You can make more money and a better name for yourself if you do something useful.

Don't slashdot a good site, go for sco instead. All the assest agreements are here.

I certainly hope SCO gets their just desserts. After all, they are a bunch of overly litigious bastards.

...and here is the exact text of Section 4.16(b), taken from the relevant part of the Asset Purchase Agreement:

(b)Buyer shall not, and shall not have the authority to, amend, modify or waive any right under or assign any SVRX License without the prior written consent of Seller. In addition, at Seller's sole discreation, Buyer shall amend, supplement, modify or waive any rights under, or shall assign any rights to, any SVRX License to the extent so directed in any manner or respect by Seller. In the event that Buyer shall fail to take any such action concerning the SVRX Licesnes as required herein, Seller shall be authorized, and hereby is granted, the rights to take any action on Buyer's own behalf. Buyer shall not, and shall have no right to, enter into future licenses or amendments of the SVRX Licenses, except as may be incidently involved through its rights to sell and license the Assets or the Merged Product (as such term is defined in the proposed Operating Agreement, attached hereto as Ehibit 5.1(c)) or future versions thereof of the Merged Produc.

Whew, a bit long winded. Obviously, Novell is Seller and SCO (or was it Caldera back then?) is Buyer. Anyhow, I've emphasised the important paragraphs, which from my reading certainly do say that:

1. SCO cannot amend IBM's SVRX license (i.e., terminate it) without the prior written consent of Novell,
2. Novell can order SCO to waive its rights to terminate IBM's SVRX license,
3. If SCO does not comply with Novell's order to waive, then Novell can act on behalf of SCO and do the waiving themselves.

IANAL, but it looks like SCO has no contractural basis for terminating IBM's SVRX license without Novell's say-so; and since this say-so hasn't been given, it appears that IBM's SVRX license is still valid.

I have a way better idea. Link to "http://www.sco.com/litigiousbastards", so that the techs looking at that web server's logfiles will get a laugh.

Unfortunately, the agreement will probably never see the light of day, for reasons of corporate confidentiality.

I correct myself! SCO has just published the Asset Purchase Agreement. Thanks to Carl for pointing this out in another post.

SCO Purchases Specific Novell Assets

Wish they were so quick with pointing out what contract/copyright/trade secrets, if any, are actually violated by anybody they accuse of doing so...
When are the Red Hat and IBM cases scheduled for resolution anyway? This whole thing is going on for far to long. Why does it take so long to resolve these issues through the courts...

"Why? Because this is slashdot, and we have no lives ;)"

You mean...

Why? Because this is slashdot, and we have no lives ;)

While this dosn't solve the heart matter, if BSD is not included in SCO's IP cliams, as stated in the SCO FAQ why isn't anyone switch platforms to BSD. I would rather run FreeBSD for a while, until OSS community puts SCO in there place, than have to pay licenses or even one get an e-mail about a lecense from sco.com.

Yeah, the Google bomb for litigious bastards for SCO seems to have lost its effect (so soon?). We probably need some likely-named links from other websites.

Yeah, the Google bomb for litigious bastards for SCO seems to have lost its effect (so soon?). We probably need some likely-named links from other websites.

You could also include a comment, and jumble the titles/alts to give different phrases of the same thing.

a URL with the phrase and an H1 will help too

litigious bastards

You could also include a comment, and jumble the titles/alts to give different phrases of the same thing.

a URL with the phrase and an H1 will help too

litigious bastards

You've got to hand it to them though, that's one awesome diagram they've got there

How's this?
litigious bastards

Do you suppose the Red Plannet is full of litigious bastards like earth is? Man, that'd be real disappointing.

If it runs Linux, they might be hearing from a few litigious bastards before too long. Better watch out!

Why is that everyone is willing to jump on the bandwagon of other litigious bastards these days over silly infringement issues. People seriously need to chill out.