SCO Sues IBM for Sharing Secrets with Unix and Linux

bstadil writes "The information is still sparse but the expected lawsuits from SCO over Unix/Linux patent infringements has been filed." SCO is asking for a billion dollars. News.com and Forbes are also covering the story.

Comments

My earlier plea for sanity

[mosch]

During the previous article I made a call for peace. I suggested that it was too early to condemn SCO for they had done nothing vicious, and we had no way to tell precisely what was planned.

Clearly I was a fucking retard. They're fucking evil. Ban them. Send them emails which politely, yet firmly state that they smell like a llama's anus. Sick the Channel 7 ProblemSolvers on them.

Seriously, there's just no excuse. As a nation, we must rise up against this evil, and destroy it once and for all.

Re:My earlier plea for sanity

[Tailhook]

"During the previous article I made a call for peace. I suggested that it was too early to condemn SCO for they had done nothing vicious, and we had no way to tell precisely what was planned."

We need to give the inspectors more time. War is wrong. Bush just wants the oil.

Oh... sorry. Wrong cause.

in other sco related news..

[Anonymous Coward]

today sco also announced they are moving their centre of operations to a hollowed out volcano, and branching out to the lucrative area of 'fricken sharks with fricken laser beams on their fricken heads'

*pinky finger to mouth*

Re:This should do wonders for United Linux sales..

[Fedhax]

If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em. What a wonderful philosophy.

Yeah, Amazon is planning to file suit against SCO for violating its patent covering the process of suing someone for patent violations.

Open request to IBM

[BJH]

Dear IBM,

Please spend the $US25.68 million it would require to buy out SCO, and then fire every single member of their management and legal department.

Thank you,

A Linux user.

Dr SCO!

[babbage]

61 INT. DR. SCO'S VOLCANO LAIR - MAIN ROOM Dr. SCO at his table with Frau, Scott, and Number Two.

DR. SCO Get me the President of the IBM.

The PRESIDENT appears on Dr. SCO's video screen with his BOARD MEMBERS behind him.

62 INT. OVAL OFFICE (SPLIT SCREEN)

PRESIDENT Dr. SCO, what do you want?

DR. SCO Not what I want Mr. President, but I will receive. In 12 hours I will destroy your industry with a giant patent.

Dr. SCO reveals a giant patent. Minix-me is humping it like a dog.

DR. SCO OK, Minix-me, why don't you and the patent get a frickin' room. Honestly. [ to President ] I will destroy another major distribution every hour- that is, unless you pay me- [ SNAP ZOOM ] One hundred billion dollars!

The President and his advisors LAUGH.

PRESIDENT Dr. SCO that's more than the entire US economy for 2002.

DR. SCO Don't play games with me. Your UNIX will disappear if I don't receive [ SNAP ZOOM ] One hundred billion dollars!

His advisors LAUGH.

PRESIDENT That much money simply doesn't exist. I don't think 100 billion is even a number. It's like saying I want a kajillion bajillion dollars. [ His advisors LAUGH. ]

DR. SCO Come on, Mr. President... [ SNAP ZOOM ] "Show me the money!"

Dr. SCO looks around smugly. No one laughs.

PRESIDENT What?

[ SNAP ZOOM ]

DR. SCO "Show me the money!"

He looks around again, expectantly.

PRESIDENT I'm sorry, I don't understand.

DR. SCO You know, kwan? Show me the money? No? Nothing?

SCOTT It's 2003. That movie stopped being a cultural buzzword 30 years ago, ass. They don't know what you're talking about.

DR. SCO Right. OK, see if you understand this: give me the money or I'm going to blow you to frickin' bits, OK?

The President and his advisors MURMUR.

PRESIDENT But-

DR. SCO [ making 'stop' gesture ] Talk to the hand!

Dr. SCO signs off.

with thanks to whoever posted this script, and with great annoyance at whoever decided that Slashdot posts with low average line lengths are a bad thing, and so need to be offset by pointless filler like this to bring up the average -- apologies while I pad this just a little more, and please feel free to disregard this last paragraph so that the average line count goes above, apparently, 30. Two things you can apparently never include in this news for nerds sites: program code (you can talk about open source, but you can't share it here!) and, apparently, movie scripts. Go figure.... Anyway, this should be enough padding, pretend this whole last paragraph is wrapped in a <!-- sorry --> block :-)

Re:This is the end of SCO, for sure.

[Anonymous Coward]

The obvious first step that would occurr to any of us would be to shun SCO - not to do business with them, not to recommend them in our jobs, etc.

Dang, since I thought SCO went out of business YEARS ago I was already doing this.

Boycott SCO...

[fanatic]

...oh, wait, we already are. Nevermind.

Providing multi-faceted computing solutions...

[sulli]

Did they get their Buzzword Bingo set in the bargain bin? Those descriptions are just pathetic. Then again, wasn't Ray Noorda the guy who ran Novell into the ground?

Darl McBride is an ass.

[x136]

From the eWeek article:

"SCO is in the enviable position of owning the UNIX operating system," said Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, before accidentally knocking over the podium with his enormous ego.

Okay, so it didn't say all of that. But it could have.