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Is there one where Company A releases code under GPL, Company B releases a derived project under a closed license and the case went to court?

It was actually posted to Slashdot ages ago. Of course, it's very old and he might well have changed it by now. I have absolutely no idea whether this information is still accurate. Here's a copy of that old post:

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Here's all the contact info you should ever need for Mr. McBride.

The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
801-765-4999 phone
801-765-1313 fax

Contact SCO online
http://www.thescogroup.com/company/feedback/index. html

Darl C McBride
1799 Vintage Oak Ln
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-6539

Darl's home phone #: (801)424-2006
Darl's office phone #: 801-932-5820

Email Darl: darl@sco.com

Is there some sort of competition going on for the much coveted title of litigious bastards?

If its a hack, they must have hacked thescogroup.com. Image here
Either SCO has been hacked on seperate web servers (thescogroup.com was put up as alternative in case of DDos), they have a script that mirrors each other, or its SCO's new motto.
Take your pick.

I kinda like it being SCO's new motto. Shows their company attitude and policy imo.

If its a hack, they must have hacked thescogroup.com. Image here
Either SCO has been hacked on seperate web servers (thescogroup.com was put up as alternative in case of DDos), they have a script that mirrors each other, or its SCO's new motto.
Take your pick.

I kinda like it being SCO's new motto. Shows their company attitude and policy imo.

Ooops, You forgot the link litigious bastards

No need to thank me...

Wait, didn't you mean litigious bastards?

It's worth about $699 per CPU! Don't tell these litigious bastards that at that price, it's way too cheap! :)

• the owner of the UNIX operating system, announced today that it has filed legal action against IBM (NYSE:IBM) in the State Court of Utah, for misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract.

• First, the copyrights are not important to our current enforcement actions.
  -- Darl McBride Friday, May 30, 2003

Well you don't have to pay the guys who *worked* on it. Only the leech will get you $699

No they didn't. The original is still here just as it always has been. I grabbed a copy very shortly after it went up and it is no different then the one still there. Shit, ass, and bullshit are all still in there.

The problem with Linux is that a lot of things don't make even the slightest bit of sense. Developers opt for brevity over simplicity, a hold over from the Unix Way of productivity over ease-of-use. The result? A platform that REQUIRES training, REQUIRES handholding, REQUIRES knowledge. It takes more time before you can start doing something because you have to learn how to do it, you can't just guess and be mostly right.

Please provide some examples. Or are you just saying this because you originally learned the microsoft way and relearning doesn't make sense?

This is a legitimate question. I began using computers with DOS, Win3.1 etc. It was only in about 1998 that I began using Linux and while the original learning curve was a bit steep, it was more because of what I had to unlearn than what I had to learn. Now, when I have to support windows (one of the downfalls of having an MCSE/MCSA, lol) I am baffled by some (most) of the things it does.

Nowadays, people don't know how to use computers. They know how to guess enough functionality to fake their way through them. Like it or not, these people could NEVER use the current Linux offerings...it'd be like handing a jackknife to a spastic.

Not to sound elitest, but maybe that is the problem. *Maybe* home users should stick to their webtv and gaming consoles and leave powerful tools to those that know how to use them. You don't see Average Joe(tm) using industrial tools around the house (well you might, but it is usually with a reference to Darwin). You might see him using a scaled down, not nearly as powerful version. There is a reason for this. Think about it, if a hairdryer needs a sticker telling the consumer not to use it in the shower, what does this tell us about the general populace? (other than we are a bunch of litigous bastards) I am not saying that a home user should not be able to own a computer, just that unless they really need one, why have it? *Most* (pardon the generalization) home users only want to browse the web, look at photos, and send email. They *don't* need a full blown home computer for that.

According to MS, they are cheaper than Linux, and if SCO has anything to say about it, you've got another think coming as well.

If they're going to continue to deregulate things, they ought to completely deregulate the patent and copyright system. No more government protections for either, and the judges don't have time to hear anymore cases. One thing that still puzzles me about this whole "internet" thing: When are we going to see significant deployments of dedicated internet only services for the masses, instead of "piggy-back" broadband technology?

And if I told you a good overview of Linux and the GPL could be found here- http://www.thescogroup.com/copyright/ would you read it and believe it?

Try http://www.mormon.org/ or http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/
if you really want to learn something.

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'

(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'

and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'

Litigious Bastards
Bad OS for fast food

Time to update your success story pages again.

Regards,
Linus

There's an interesting interview with Darl at The SCO 2004 forum

Darl: I was trying to explain this to my father the other day. We grew up on a ranch, and he was asking the question "What was up with all the lawsuits - sounds very complicated?"

"Well, it's quite simple, it's like our days growing up on the ranch If you took the cattle up on the mountains in the Summer-time, and in the fall, you went to round them up, you had to bring the cattle back in, and whenever they had a brand on their side, you could establish which brands were yours. In the meantime, if somebody came and took your cattle, you had the rights to go track them down. When I was growing up we had a case very similar to this. Someone stole our cattle, we went and found our brands. The Brand inspector helped us get restoration of those cows back to us, and we were whole again with our property. That's exactly what's going here. Copyrights of software are very similar to brands on cattle. And what we're doing is we've found that the copyright [works] we have here have made their way into other properties. We're in the process of rounding these up, and once we have them rounded up, then we will feel that we have restitution and justice, for our intellectual properties demands that we have out there."

Well, if he'd tell us what his brand looked like, we could return the lines of source code to him. Unfortunately, until we know what his brand looks like, these could be the stolen lines of SCO UNIX for all we know:

How about google bombing? can us slashdotters spread the word and link to: nigritude ultramarine, nigritude ultramarine, nigritude ultramarine or is there something even funnier that I can't think of?

It depends on what you call a "pirated copy of Windows". If you buy a new PC, it's probably preloaded with some version of Windows. At some point, you may decide or need to reinstall Windows, and you may not have the restore cd/dvd handy when that time comes. If you install a cracked version of Windows, same edition as the one you had before, are you a pirate? Nobody's going to steal a copy of Windows XP Home edition when they have the option of choosing any edition they want, unless they already had a legitimate right to use the Home edition and wanted to keep their conscience clean.

And the Microsoft monopoly adds an interesting spin to the issue of piracy. People no longer use Windows because they want to, but because Microsofts tactics have ensured that they'll probably need to. Microsoft is actively attacking legal alternatives to Windows, through investments in litigious bastards, software patents, and false advertising campaigns. They left the realm of capitalism and the free market years ago. They took choice out of the hands of the consumer and now they get free money. I personally respect their IP but it's getting harder and harder to blame Windows pirates these days. All the other pirates can go #### themselves, but stealing Windows is like stealing water from a company that poisoned your well.

Microsoft should definitely be able block updates to pirated copies of Windows if they wish. I think if they do it'll just fuel the switch to alternative operating systems, which their other commercial offerings won't run on. If they're confident that everyone that pirates Windows pirates the rest of their stuff as well, and they don't think giving alternative operating systems a foothold is going to be bad for their future, then they should go ahead.

But if you think about it, the most monopolistic action they could take would be to ALLOW pirated copies of Windows to be updated. It'd slow the adoption of alternative operating systems, and help keep estimates of worm and virus infection rates that so often make the news as low as possible. If the rates of Windows exploitation increases dramatically, people aren't going to think, "Oh, those are mostly just pirates who are being affected," they'll think, "Windows is looking less secure than ever before and look, I just got another dozen virus infected emails over my lunch break, maybe I should try this /.*[ui]x|.*BSD/ thing everyone's talking about."

Who inherits the title of litiguous bastards once IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Autozone, Daimler-Chryslers, et al finish flushing the current holder of the title down the crapper.

Don't be so pessimistic my son! We've still got the MPAA, Microsoft and the litigious bastards left! (even is SCO is in a really bad shape these days...)

They're not crackheads, they're Litigious Bastards. :p

I thought he said crackheads? ;]

(Besides, this is as good an excuse as any to Googlebomb SCO further ...)

I thought the appropriate google bomb was litigious bastards.

(3) I believe that piracy is driven by "overpriced CDs" even though CDs have dropped in price over the years.

They have? That's news to me. When I got my first CD player in 1985, the average price of a new CD in a record store was $12. In 2004, the average price of a new CD in a record store is $18. Now, granted there are bargain-basement $5.99 CDs these days, as well as sale-priced new releases at the $12 or $13 price point, but as a whole, CDs aren't cheaper today than they were nearly 20 years ago.

Does that excuse "piracy," or "theft" or whatever you want to call it? No, it doesn't, but let's ratchet down the level of nonsense in the rhetoric used here. "Stealing" isn't the right word for making an unauthorized copy of something. The original still exists and can be sold to someone, and "piracy" is a loaded word with completely inappropriate connotations. How about we just call it "unauthorized copying" or "copyright dilution"?

I've always had a problem with software and entertainment industry estimates of losses due to unauthorized copying. First, they assume that every copy illegally-made represents a lost sale, which is nonsense. If a 15-year-old kid has 8,000 songs on his hard drive, there's no chance in hell that he would have bought those 8,000 songs if he hadn't had access to them for free. He might have spent anywhere from a few hundred to a couple of thousand bucks on music, but there's no chance he'd have bought 600 CDs worth of music at $15-$18 a crack ($9,000-$11,000).

And here's another thing: Twenty years ago, my friends and I taped songs off of FM radio and played them in our walkmans. Or we'd dupe our LPs onto tape and trade copies with each other. I easily had access to ten times as much music as I could afford to buy, but in spite of record industry whining, I bought *more* music because of that practice, not less.

One study stated that that kids and adults alike who used the original Napster were more likely to buy music than people who didn't. Numerous studies have shown that there's zero correlation between "piracy" and the decline of sales for the music industry. Is it any surprise to people that the last year of sales increases for the music industry was the last year that the original Napster was in operation?

This is not an apologia for listening to music without paying for any of it. It's simply a realistic look at what's really going on. The record industry has its head up its ass and always has. Suing and prosecuting your customers is bad for business.

Software "piracy" is different, but not *that* different. Much of the software industry used to accept that "piracy" was just another form of marketing. Microsoft has always given lip service to stamping out "piracy," but until they had established a monopoly, they did virtually nothing to prevent it before the fact because they knew it was easier to convert a "pirate" into a paying customer than it was to get a skeptic to buy from you in the first place. Most people these days will automatically use MS products, so now Microsoft puts copy-protection technology in its products to force people to pay up-front.

Is making an unauthorized copy of music or software theft? According to the law, it is. However, there needs to be a middle ground between the "information wants to be free" left and the Ashcroft search-and-seizure right.

Most people would gladly reward artists and programmers for their work. That's how shareware works, and it made Phil Katz a substantial amount of money before his death. So how about we find new ways to reward creators of content, instead of finding new ways to criminalize what people have done for decades?

Don't misunderstand me. There are true criminals out there who are selling counterfeit or other illegally-copied versions of products (such as music and sof

The SCO website is planning a different legal strategy.

The Large Button on top of their page is advertising "SCO Forum 2004 *The power of Unix*" On the bottom of the button it says:
Register Early and WIN!
What do you win?
...A court hearing most likely.

Sun will soon be sending out squads of mercenaries to kill Linux users on sight

I'm just thinking, that would make a great out-of-context quote. :) Hey, it's one way to get more Solaris users, by percentage anyway.

Don't forget Sun's a fully paid-up SCO supporter -- i.e. oxygen for Darl's windmill-tilting crusade against Linux. If we managed to Googlebomb them as litigous bastards, maybe we'll be able to do it to them as squads of mercenaries...

(By the way, that page links to a lovely story containing the quote "I have a hard time seeing the Linux Zealots as any different from terrorists because of the nature of their threats." Charming.)

talk like this chimp? I don't think so.

I'm on a slow as nails computer or I'd look it up. I distinctly remember there being a slashdot article about it. I'll look it up tonight when I get home. That said, it's only been a month since the EV1 thing started, and I dont know if the CEO thinks it's necessary to drag his company into court with those litigious bastards over something like that anyhoo.

when he comes up wondering why he can't get out to the net show him the logs and explain that one guy using 95% of the bandwidth is not acceptable and he can either cut it out or go get his own dedicated pipe to the 'net.

That would be the three-year-old's approach.

No, instead, just talk to the user first.

It is MUCH more complicated if that user is paying you money for the service (albeit not much money). If you didn't explicitly state in some sort of contract an acceptable use policy, YOU are the one who gets in trouble for discontinuing service.

Another example: the water bill is paid by my landlord, and so somehow built in to my rent. But there is a clause in the renter's agreement that states that "excessive" water use can result in a fine or charges. That protects the landlord.

Without that, I'm legally entitled to use something that is "included" in my rent -- fill all the neighbors swimming pools if I wanted to. The landlord would be the one getting in trouble for retaliating in any way.

Of course, this is only if people choose to be litigious bastards. If people act like human beings, a nice friendly conversation can solve the problem.

But I can assure you: acting like a three-year-old and unplugging the user without warning WILL make them mad, and more likely to act like a litigious bastard. :)

- Peter

when he comes up wondering why he can't get out to the net show him the logs and explain that one guy using 95% of the bandwidth is not acceptable and he can either cut it out or go get his own dedicated pipe to the 'net.

That would be the three-year-old's approach.

No, instead, just talk to the user first.

It is MUCH more complicated if that user is paying you money for the service (albeit not much money). If you didn't explicitly state in some sort of contract an acceptable use policy, YOU are the one who gets in trouble for discontinuing service.

Another example: the water bill is paid by my landlord, and so somehow built in to my rent. But there is a clause in the renter's agreement that states that "excessive" water use can result in a fine or charges. That protects the landlord.

Without that, I'm legally entitled to use something that is "included" in my rent -- fill all the neighbors swimming pools if I wanted to. The landlord would be the one getting in trouble for retaliating in any way.

Of course, this is only if people choose to be litigious bastards. If people act like human beings, a nice friendly conversation can solve the problem.

But I can assure you: acting like a three-year-old and unplugging the user without warning WILL make them mad, and more likely to act like a litigious bastard. :)

- Peter

Though I can certainly understand the need to market something unique, and the logic behind "Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate.....", I cannot ever see myself talking to my web browser like another human being.

I've worked with and supported both ViaVoice and DragonNaturallySpeaking solutions for voice-based typing in word processors, and neither of them felt natural. Perhaps because I'm a geek, or just because I've been doing it so long, I'd rather manually key in exactly what I want and let myself make the mistakes, not the interpretation.

With corrections, it always took longer to do the alleged "easier way" than manually keying in. Even with 99% accuracy, Word Processing was always clunky at best.

That, and every time I scream out "litigious bastards", I don't need it pulling up litigious bastards.

WHAT OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU USE because it has ALL BEEN LOGGED!.

"ONE LINE OF SOURCE CODE MEANS GUILTY!"

You had a safe, comfortable middle-class life? No, you thought you had, but you didn't. You are a CRIMINAL, you are GUILTY and you can be EXECUTED.

You are just another statistic criminal. Do you want YOU and your PARTNER and KIDS to be DRAGGED from your home and SHOT IN THE STREET?

Is your anus insured for AIDS RAPE?

Does your life insurance cover FORCED PRISON SEX and AIDS DEATH ? Check the policy - maybe not. Does "your" life-insurance carry a clause in the contract about perverts, convicts and enemies of society JUST LIKE YOU? Why should they insure "SOURCE CODE THIEVES" like you?

Scociety hates you.

What are your family going to do when you are jailed for 50 years with no parole? Do you reckon your spouse will hang around for 1 year let alone 50 years before they get lonely and find another partner to love them?

You can be JAILED and RAPED.

A great big muscle-bound GAY RAPIST will tie you to the PRISON BARS and RAPE YOUR ASS with his AIDS AND WART-INFESTED PENIS .

You will be forced to SUCK AIDS INFECTED DICKS . Do you want that?

SOCIETY SUCKS and you had better get used to it because this is what you can expect when YOUR COMPUTER is EXAMINED FOR EVIDENCE by the "government".

You will soon learn how "LAWFUL" AND "CORRECT" your government is when you are being raped and the prison guards are looking the other way - or WATCHING or JOINING IN.

DO YOU WANT TO BE RAPED? WELL, DO YOU?

Your "government" wants you to be RAPED IN THE ASS and you had better wise up before they get YOUR ass, because they can recover what OS you use LAST YEAR and use it to kidnap you and rape you.

STOP yourself and your family and kids being kidnapped and raped by criminals.

Protect yourself - don't be a dirty GNU hippie - BUY A SCO(R) LISENCE(tm) TODAY!.

NOW ONLY $699, YOU COCK SMOKING TEABAGGERS!!!!!


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Since these linux drivers are responsible for so much revenue to these big companies, they would much rather gobble you up for a couple dozen million (chump change really), than deal with the publicity of a lawsuit.

Of course you need to have a backup plan incase they don't bite. You need to protect your "IP" so you issue press releases like you were the AP, telling anyone and everyone that you are suing these evil corporations, and you have expensive lawyers. Sell your stock like mad, when dumb people buy your story..

If they ask "what IP do you have?" Loudly shout "errr, umm, Look at that monkey over there!", and make sure that by the time they turn back around, your expensive lawyer is there with lawsuit in hand..

I don't need an MBA or a Law Degree, everything I need to know i learned from Slashdot and the litigious bastards.

He isn't referring to putting Linux in the public domain, he is referring to placing Unix in the public domain. In other words, he is surprised that the quick solution - buy the source to Unix then place Unix source in the public domain - has not happened.

I have a better plan for IBM: Hammer the litigious bastards until they bleed, rupture the corporate veil and do the same to their secret masters in Canopy, enlist the SEC to sling the stock-scheme pump'n'dumping executives from both companies into jail, comb the wreckage to find the source to Unix, and then place Unix source in the public domain.

And after that, of course, follow up with convicted monopolist Micros~1 and their boy-wonder lobbyist Anderer. Let's see how well that NDA holds up in federal court, up against Kollar-Kotelly...

OK, it's not the "quick solution", but it's certainly the just one.

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DO YOU WANT TO BE RAPED? WELL, DO YOU?

Your "government" wants you to be RAPED IN THE ASS and you had better wise up before they get YOUR ass, because they can recover what OS you use LAST YEAR and use it to kidnap you and rape you.

STOP yourself and your family and kids being kidnapped and raped by criminals.

Protect yourself - don't be a dirty GNU hippie - BUY A SCO(R) LISENCE(tm) TODAY!.

NOW ONLY $699, YOU COCK SMOKING TEABAGGERS!!!!!


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This is the correct link: litigious bastards

here is the link

That link seems to not work, but that got me started playing with the search engine on their site: Search for Ethics at SCO

Hmm. Let's test that theory, shall we? Send some letters to SCO saying "Stop your barratry or I'll send more pics!" For bonus points, send them hello.jpg (of goatse fame) to see if that speeds things up.

Of course, the test may be aborted due to SCO going out of business soon, but... well, this is as close to a legitimate use of that dreadful image as I can think of...

The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
801-765-4999 phone
801-765-1313 fax

Contact SCO online
Darl C McBride
1799 Vintage Oak Ln
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-6539

Darl's home phone #: (801)424-2006
Darl's office phone #: 801-932-5820
Email Darl darl@sco.com

Disclaimer:

Please use the above information responsibly. Granted, it's only a couple minutes of using Google & sco.com to find this, but... Note that I got the phone number above from the old Slashdot post thereof (the one where he complained of folks harassing him or somesuch) so it is real, but it could theoretically have been changed since then. I have no idea.

Please note that the use of the word "barratry" above does not imply that SCO or its executives have (yet) been convicted of any such charge, it merely expresses my oppinion that they are irrationally litigious. By reading this, copying this, or attaching this to any legal filing, you agree not to sue me, ever, for any reason, including but not limited to your own feelings of inadequacy. Stripping the copyright information below, whether or not it ever existed or could ever be meaningful is a tort under an absurd provision of the DMCA.

(C) 2004, Anonymous Coward

They can't sue SCO for copyright violation, because what they're selling isn't Linux.