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

I cannot believe companies are caving in to SCO and paying these bogus licensing fees. Can you believe Questar's logic?

I tried to work out what Questar was thinking, while compiling a post to this Ghost article (it got yanked 'cause bigger news emerged). Here's my theory:

Questar, one of the licensees mentioned in Heiss's letter, said that its decision to purchase the IP Licence for Linux was a matter of simple economics. "Our usage of (Linux) is so small and isolated that's why we went ahead and signed the contract.," said Chad Jones a spokesman with the Salt Lake City company. "This was small enough that we made a business decision based on the modest cost of SCO's claim that it was in our interest to settle rather than litigate this thing," he said.

If a company has "small and isolated" Linux useage, why would SCO even notice them?

The simple answer: the litigious bastards are just a few miles away from their helpless victim.

I figure SCO has simply decided to move up a notch in the gangster hierarchy, and move from lawsuit-slinging to leg breaking. Imagine a large guy in a tailored suit walking up to Questar's front office -- and he's no missionary.

"I hear youse gots some Linux boxes? Youse also gots some piplelines youse proud of. I'd hate to see them on the news tonight. Kapiche?"

Assuming this is an accurate and actual letter, how is it that a company can continue to do business in this manner? This company is not in the softwrae business anymore - it's in the lawsuit business. After all the happenings with Enron and WorldCom, how is it that this company, which has no real business plan (that's evident even outside the letter) attract customers or money?

Along those lines, if their strategy is to just replace any real products with creative lawsuits and complex money raising schemes as described, perhaps people should replace the litigious bastards Google-bomb with "the Enron of Software" or "the next Enron" and start referring to them as such.

If that happened, I could see the mainstream press printing nice little asides like -- "...SCO and the Canopy Group are often described as "the next Enron" or the "Enron of Software" by members of the tech community..."

Maybe the litigiousbastards.com guys could buy up nextenron.com and enronofsoftware.com (unless SCO or Canopy already plan to as part of their positioning campaign!).

Assuming this is an accurate and actual letter, how is it that a company can continue to do business in this manner? This company is not in the softwrae business anymore - it's in the lawsuit business. After all the happenings with Enron and WorldCom, how is it that this company, which has no real business plan (that's evident even outside the letter) attract customers or money?

Along those lines, if their strategy is to just replace any real products with creative lawsuits and complex money raising schemes as described, perhaps people should replace the litigious bastards Google-bomb with "the Enron of Software" or "the next Enron" and start referring to them as such.

If that happened, I could see the mainstream press printing nice little asides like -- "...SCO and the Canopy Group are often described as "the next Enron" or the "Enron of Software" by members of the tech community..."

Maybe the litigiousbastards.com guys could buy up nextenron.com and enronofsoftware.com (unless SCO or Canopy already plan to as part of their positioning campaign!).

There's been a whole host of developments in the ongoing SCO saga over the past couple of days. SCO have now filed law suits against Autozone and DaimlerChrysler on the same day as announcing growing operating losses. Despite securing a deal to license their IP with ev1servers, SCOsource only generated an income of $20,000 for the quarter. Today it has been revealed that Computer Associates, Questar Corp. and manufacturer Leggett & Platt Inc have all joined the ranks of SCO source licensees. Over at the Nasdaq the publicity stunts are beginning to wane thin with investors who sent SCO shares plummeting by almost 14% yesterday. In the courtroom, SCO was yesterday given 45 days to identify all specific lines of code they allege IBM put into Linux from AIX or Dynix; identify and provide with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to.

It doesn't say that exactly, the 45 day deadline is for IBM turning over their source and for SCO to fully comply with the Dec 12th court order.

As I understand it, this doesn't end the discovery phase, so they could still amend the lines of infringing code. The trial is going to be dragged out for quite awhile yet. This is just one step, remember SCO has already complied fully with the Dec 12th order once.

2. re-posts story on .

3. sues .

4 The litigious bastards file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of /.

5. Profit!!!

I hereby am not inferring in any way shape or form that Tim Roberts is a fiendish twitfuck or that he sleeps with goats regulary.

I have no knowledge whatsoever that he is a godless freak, a communist, and a subversive terrorist. I am not aware of any connection between Tim Roberts and Saddam Hussein. I know not of any cash transfers between Infinium labs and Al-Queda.

I am perfectly sure that Tim Roberts is not a convicted felon, nor has he ever been a suspected pope-abuser.

I'd like to take this opportunity to make everyone aware that I've never heard of Tim Roberts dressing up in drag and singing show tunes in a gay biker bar.

There probably isn't even any connection between Tim Roberts and the fucknuts that may or may not be referred to as litigious bastards

The Linux(R) Kernel Personality (LKP) for UnixWare 7.1.3 provides Linux environment hosted on the UnixWare kernel. This environment does not contain a Linux kernel, but does contain the RPMs needed to run most Linux applications. By invoking the UnixWare kernel to run the Linux application, the application gets all of the performance and scalability advantages that UnixWare delivers. Linux applications that are disk or database intensive, or require support for a large number of users, typically perform with greater stability, reliability, and scalability when deployed on the UnixWare LKP environment.

Access to the Linux and UNIX environments is provided for both applications and the user. Common system files, such as password files, are automatically updated between environments.

SCO understands that customers are looking for alternatives to Linux. But making changes always introduces risk. LKP is an easy and low risk tool to help the migration from Linux to UnixWare. The benefits of LKP are:

...<snip>

Yeah SCO... you /really/ understand alright!

We license Linux through Red Hat. They provide our distribution and support/updates for the Enterprise distribution. Plus, they do an awesome job at delivering. Their support and dedication is second to none. Our agreement with SCO is in no way any kind of indictment on Red Hat. [...]

We did, however, license certain IP from SCO.

What are the chances that any of these "licensees" will get their money refunded when SCO loses?

Why would they get a refund? Have you looked at the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux?

If you terminate the license, you don't get a refund. They can terminate your license if you're doing something wrong, but a) SCO terminated IBM's Unix license without proper notification of the breach and b) SCO has described contracts as "what you use against parties you have relationships with."

They're selling a license that covers...

[boldfaced parts emphasized by me] "UNIX-based Code" shall mean any Code or Method that:
(i) in its literal or non-literal expression, structure, format, use, functionality or adaptation
(ii) is based on, developed in, derived from or is similar to (iii) any Code contained in or Method devised or developed in
(iv) UNIX System V or UnixWare(R), or
(v) any modification or derivative work based on or licensed under UNIX System V or UnixWare.

So they're bascially selling a license which purports to cover any code, in anything, that just so happens to behave the same way code in Unix System V or UnixWare behaves, or any product derived from those sources. Pretty broad spectrum, neh?

This is why people have been saying it's a bad idea to buy an SCO "IP license" until they are found to have rights to any "IP" in Linux. Because you're entering into a legally-binding agreement with a company that will audit you to try to intimidate you into "compliance".

Contrary to the notion where you get some kind of security in buying a license to use someone's IP, SCO's license gives you the exact opposite; no warranty, no indemnity (but Mr. McBride, what about all the times you claimed Linux users were at risk because of lack of warranty indemnification? And they explicitly state that there's no protection if you happen to infringe on someone else's intellectual property rights by using this license... like, say, the Linux kernel developers whose GPL-licesned code would be infringed?) and the right for SCO to audit you any time they want and make you cough up money if you "pirate" Linux by putting it on another machine -- oh, and the licenses are not transferrable between machines, either.

Sucker. Anyone who buys an SCO IP license has, in my opinion, no right to cry later when it turns out they bought a pig in a poke.

Jay (=

Denial of Service Attack against 911??? Maybe 911 should change their phone number just like SCO changd their DNS name to http://www.thescogroup.com/.

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!!!!!


This message was generated by the good GOATDOCTOR - Proctologist by Trade (now with 33% more niggardly behaviour!)

...oh, and SCO, FIX YOUR SITE!

a. "pros," or professional users who use multiple operating systems and really just view each in terms of their usefulness as a tool and are really indifferent as far as a choice of OSs go.

b. the "priests," or users who view Linux and open source software as the solution, no matter what, as the solution and are fanatical and closed-minded.

c. the "zealots," users who generally use a male body part as their web pseudonym and are terrorists. He says "The Zealots are rude and crude, and the sentence "two beers short of a six-pack" defines them well."

I wonder, has the author ever considered the possible existence of Linux users, like myself, who just like Linux and the whole concept of open software?

As for their excuse... they have no right to distribute Samba except under the GPL. D'ohl MacBride is officially on record as having said that the GPL is unconstitutional and violates "the U.S. copyright and patent laws". Ergo, they are illegally distributing Samba, whether by distributing it in violation of the constitution, or in the absence of permission from the copyright holders.

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be tragic if 100,000 signups occurred but they were all random data filled in by an automated testing bot.

Where do I sign up? The host shop.sco.com (linked from How to purchase and activate a SCO IP License website) is up and running, but with port 80 closed! What is going on? See:

pth@sd:~$ nmap -vp80 shop.sco.com

Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up).
Warning: You are not root -- using TCP pingscan rather than ICMP
Host shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240) appears to be up ... good.
Initiating Connect() Scan against shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240)
The Connect() Scan took 0 seconds to scan 1 ports.
The 1 scanned port on shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240) is: closed

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2 seconds
pth@sd:~$

Is that another desperate PR stunt? I would like to buy a license, to sue them in the future for selling it to me. My lawyer adviced me that it would be a better investment than SCO stock, especially in the case of class action lawsuit. Does anyone has any comments about their EULA? Is it legally binding? If so, then would it be enforceable? And the most important question: Where do I sign up? Thanks.

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be tragic if 100,000 signups occurred but they were all random data filled in by an automated testing bot.

Where do I sign up? The host shop.sco.com (linked from How to purchase and activate a SCO IP License website) is up and running, but with port 80 closed! What is going on? See:

pth@sd:~$ nmap -vp80 shop.sco.com

Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up).
Warning: You are not root -- using TCP pingscan rather than ICMP
Host shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240) appears to be up ... good.
Initiating Connect() Scan against shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240)
The Connect() Scan took 0 seconds to scan 1 ports.
The 1 scanned port on shop.sco.com (216.250.128.240) is: closed

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2 seconds
pth@sd:~$

Is that another desperate PR stunt? I would like to buy a license, to sue them in the future for selling it to me. My lawyer adviced me that it would be a better investment than SCO stock, especially in the case of class action lawsuit. Does anyone has any comments about their EULA? Is it legally binding? If so, then would it be enforceable? And the most important question: Where do I sign up? Thanks.

... if you cannot connect to shop.sco.com. This is the number listed by SCO for inquiries about SCO product purchases. Be polite.

So...anyone want to take bets on how many people actually buy a license? Probably fewer than the number of people who have bought X-10 minicams from those popup windows.

Do they have an affiliate program? I could definitely see selling licenses in a sort of evidence-eliminator way.

YOU ARE RUNNING UNLICENSED UNIX CODE
Penalties for violating the SCO group's copyrights
are $50,000 per line of infringing code. Our source
scanner shows you are using 1,102,213 lines of
proprietary and confidential SCO source code.
CLICK HERE to purchase a SCO
binary runtime license. Failure to do so will result
in $55,110,650,000 of legal liability!
This offer will not be repeated.

The store seems a wee bit hesitant, but while waiting for it to try to load I stumbled across this lovely pdf, linked from their legal page. I'm sure I'm among the last to notice it, but really, why would anyone think that sco would have a Code of Conduct and Ethics, just like a real company?

Figuring which parts of it Darl and minions are in flagrant violation of is left as an exercise for the reader

"SCO IP" shall mean the SCO intellectual property included in its UNIX-based Code in Object Code format licensed by SCO under SCO's standard commercial license.

"UNIX-based Code" shall mean any Code or Method that: (i) in its literal or non-literal expression, structure, format, use, functionality or adaptation (ii) is based on, developed in, derived from or is similar to (iii) any Code contained in or Method devised or developed in (iv) UNIX System V or UnixWare(R), or (v) any modification or derivative work based on or licensed under UNIX System V or UnixWare.

Provided You comply fully with this Grant of Rights and Obligations, SCO will not consider such use of the SCO IP licensed by You under this Agreement to be in violation of SCO's intellectual property ownership or rights.

Remember people, they are litigious bastards. More info

My favorite question is #28

I have Linux servers deployed in my organization. What options do I have besides purchasing a SCO IP license?

There are 3 options for you to evaluate:

• You have the option to do nothing, adopt a "wait and see" attitude, and risk whether SCO may enforce its intellectual property rights with you.

• You can replace all servers, desktop and embedded uses of Linux with an alternative legal operating system.

• You can obtain SCO IP Licenses.

SCO is committed to protect and defend its intellectual property and believes that the most cost effective remedy is to purchase the necessary SCO IP License. However, the action you take should be based on the recommendation of your own legal counsel.

My favorite question is #28

I have Linux servers deployed in my organization. What options do I have besides purchasing a SCO IP license?

There are 3 options for you to evaluate:

• You have the option to do nothing, adopt a "wait and see" attitude, and risk whether SCO may enforce its intellectual property rights with you.

• You can replace all servers, desktop and embedded uses of Linux with an alternative legal operating system.

• You can obtain SCO IP Licenses.

SCO is committed to protect and defend its intellectual property and believes that the most cost effective remedy is to purchase the necessary SCO IP License. However, the action you take should be based on the recommendation of your own legal counsel.

My favorite question is #28

I have Linux servers deployed in my organization. What options do I have besides purchasing a SCO IP license?

There are 3 options for you to evaluate:

• You have the option to do nothing, adopt a "wait and see" attitude, and risk whether SCO may enforce its intellectual property rights with you.

• You can replace all servers, desktop and embedded uses of Linux with an alternative legal operating system.

• You can obtain SCO IP Licenses.

SCO is committed to protect and defend its intellectual property and believes that the most cost effective remedy is to purchase the necessary SCO IP License. However, the action you take should be based on the recommendation of your own legal counsel.

My favorite question is #28

I have Linux servers deployed in my organization. What options do I have besides purchasing a SCO IP license?

There are 3 options for you to evaluate:

• You have the option to do nothing, adopt a "wait and see" attitude, and risk whether SCO may enforce its intellectual property rights with you.

• You can replace all servers, desktop and embedded uses of Linux with an alternative legal operating system.

• You can obtain SCO IP Licenses.

SCO is committed to protect and defend its intellectual property and believes that the most cost effective remedy is to purchase the necessary SCO IP License. However, the action you take should be based on the recommendation of your own legal counsel.

Taken directly from
http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/eula.html

You may not assign, sublicense, rent, lend, lease, pledge or otherwise transfer or encumber the SCO IP, this Agreement or Your rights or obligations hereunder

The SCO group is now distrubuting the kernel with additional restrictions, and thus are violating the GPL. They are truely now in violation of all the kernel developer's copyright on the code.

Molog

Try your luck: SCO is selling now (credit card required) at their online shop.

NOTICE: SCO has suspended new sales and distribution of SCO Linux until the intellectual property issues surrounding Linux are resolved. SCO will, however, continue to support existing SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux customers consistent with existing contractual obligations. SCO offers at no extra charge to its existing Linux customers a SCO UNIX IP license for their use of prior SCO or Caldera distributions of Linux in binary format. The license also covers binary use of support updates distributed to them by SCO. This SCO license balances SCO's need to enforce its intellectual property rights against the practical needs of existing customers in the marketplace.

For further information on how to obtain RPMS/SRPMS for OpenLinux, eDesktop and eServer see:

www.sco.com/support/linux_info.html

For further information on how to obtain RPMS/SRPMS for SCO Linux 4.0 see:

www.sco.com/support/scolinux_info.html or the SCO Linux 4.0 Update Download Page.

From: www.thescogroup.com/support/download.html

But they are selling! Their website has an online shop where you can buy those licences. You have to give your credit card number:
SCO Online Shop

Unfortunately that's not true. If you're really keen to give away your life savings and open yourself up to never ending litigation ("contracts are what you use against your customers" - Darl) you can buy one online here:

http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense. html

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!!!!!


This message was generated by the good GOATDOCTOR - Proctologist by Trade (now with 33% more niggardly behaviour!)

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I don't think there's a smell associated with litigious bastards yet...

I think you meant:
Oh I'm torn, what to do, what to do... "litigious bastards" is already taken.

Oh I'm torn, what to do, what to do... "Litigous Bastards" is already taken.

Oh, and for Infinium... I probably wouldn't have bought your console before, and I definitely won't now but... are you DAFT? I never read the original article but I'm on my way to read it now. What is the technical term for this practise? "Unadvertising"??? Yanno, when you pay good money for BAD publicity for your products? (shakes head...)

(before you decide to modbomb, check with the history of me to get a good deal of who you might be dealing with)

# not telling us any of their previous employers' secrets: if they'll break somebody else's NDA, I'm sure they'll break ours;

Obviously, you're a confused Ivy Leaguer. Mind where you're saying this one. This is Slashdot. Besides, I dont mind picking through things like national secrets *and* making your company think twice, no matter if you're SCO for OS NDA's, or General Dynamics if you're holding nice, juicy government secrets on the software for those tanks (Java was in the development process for some software for tanks at the very least from what I remember from seeing in source code(I'll put more if I can find it on my profile here, even if it amounts to simulation, well, I dont care about the concept of IP), and sending your people to Italy for conferences, is something you dont do, General Dynamics, especially on the government contract dollar. Do it with your own money not made on the backs of the contracts. Besides, I'd not mind if the adjustment in the economy means I can afford such kind of trips, versus settling for locations in the middle of the desert for such kinds of meetings.) (BTW, Novell Netware if you're wanting to deal with military storage of data - BAD - given the many known ways in, you should know about the failures of security by obscurity, and harassing me IRL, will slap you with a nice RICO lawsuit.)

As far as the rest of the stuff, mind that I do agree on the blatant dishonesty; The only thing more slippery down the slope for me is thinking that if you're some Ivy League/Fraternity/Orkut SOB who thinks he is a god (and is usually the one who would BS through), he shall be given the fast track. Well, they get it, but they'll wonder why they're out in the cold w/o an interview, and wonder why their money/power could only give me an excellent opportunity to (within the law) knock the wind out of their sails. Which means, you're going to have to work on your skill to get in.

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!!!!!


This message has been brought to you by the good GOATDOCTOR - Proctologist by Trade (now with 31% more niggardly behaviour!)

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".

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One big one is Pixar, or another animation studio. They use a lot of Linux for rendering farms, and some also have used SGI and other UNIXes in the past. They're moving to Linux in a big way.

And what about a large finance company on Wall Street? Most of them started experimenting with Linux years ago, and some have a lot of systems running it.

I guess we'll find out by the day's end. It's a sure thing, since SCO would never let its PR face say something and then contradict it in its actions.

ACK stupid me. Should always use preview,

thats www.thescogroup.com.

When you search for "litigious bastards", you now get a website promoting the googlebomb technique listed first. The sco group was listed first, but now it's ranked about 47. I'm not sure if they are reducing the relevance of the link-text, or if the ranking has been lowered because the sco group probably doesn't point back at any of the blogs that link to it.

Let's see if the 'new' index adds interesting stuff:

1.- Michael Moore (still no. 1)
2.- Dubya
3.- Jimmy Carter
4.- Sen. Hillary R. Clinton
5.- Howard Dean

PS: litigious bastards still clean, just pointing to litigiousbastards.com.

1-800-SCO-UNIX

How many people work at software development companies that sacrifice quality to meet a deadline that sales or marketing proposed to the customer?

How about a company thats taken a new and possibly bad direction because one of the executives or a newly appointed CEO wants to impress shareholders and make money for themselves?

Point being, OSS projects are typically written on a timeline based on one requirement, is the project ready for the release?

It has always been my opinion that publicly traded companies are ruined by their shareholders.

How many people work at software development companies that sacrifice quality to meet a deadline that sales or marketing proposed to the customer?

How about a company thats taken a new and possibly bad direction because one of the executives or a newly appointed CEO wants to impress shareholders and make money for themselves?

Point being, OSS projects are typically written on a timeline based on one requirement, is the project ready for the release?

It has always been my opinion that publicly traded companies are ruined by their shareholders.

Or better yet, update your link and sig to www.thescogroup.com, the litigious bastards.

This made me laugh out loud...

Case Study: Nuance ...

"The UNIX(R) system environment is an extremely strong solution for any telecommunications application and SCO's market leadership on the Intel(R) platform provides Nuance's customers with the ultimate, secure solution package."

SCO and Nuance: Reliability for the New Millennium

The referenced article is 5 years old. To the best of my knowledge, Nuance does not currently support SCO UNIX in any of its products.

"The 'Legend' edition of SCO UNIX(R), which is targeted at SMB customers, will be refitted with SCOx Web services support, an XML parser and SOAP toolkit, an OpenLDAP directory, better multithreading, open-source tools Tomcat, PHP and Mozilla, enhanced J2EE support and enhanced security with support for IPsec, VPN and PAN capabilities."

If SCO is gonna sue us and attack the moral and legal fiber of the GPL, I'd like to see them voluntarily remove all related code from their products and see whether the thing is even in saleable condition afterward. I'm not calling for retaliation by the community because some honest people may have inherited SCO systems to maintain, but I have no problem with those who choose to no longer actively maintain the many Unixware compatibility patches that exist in most core free software to work around their horribly buggy OS.