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SCO Sues IBM for Sharing Secrets with Unix and Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the suing-the-power-back dept.

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.

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  1. Everyone Jumping On the Bandwagon by fuzdout · · Score: 1, Troll

    Everyone's so "sue-happy" these days it's pathetic.

    First a moron sues McDonalds for spilling coffee on herself and now we have this!

    [sarcasm] what next? Commander Taco sues slashdot?? [/sarcasm]

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  2. well then... by thadeusPawlickiROX · · Score: 0, Troll

    In other news, SCO joins up with Mac to sue Microsoft, Gnome, KDE, and various other window manager software companies for usage of the "trash can" icon or a similar varient. The amount will come to... 100 billion-gazillion dollars... or something like that

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  3. You're ABSOLUTELY nuts! by alexhmit01 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Shareholders own the company. The company does not own it's shareholders.

    A publically traded company can't control who owns their shares.

    A privately held company needs to be careful when exacting control.

    A shareholder owns part of Trolltech. Trolltech has NO say over the actions of the shareholder. Trolltech cannot simply "buy them out" unless they want to sell.

    Your actions are insane, encourage illegal behavior, and is a blatant attack upon the capitalist system. You would dry up all capital.

    My one outside shareholder happens to be a manager/owner in a separate business, one of whose shareholders happens to have as a shareholder Bill Gates.

    So by tracking through 5 corporate entities, I'm connected to Microsoft. I should be subject to boycott and harassment for every decision that Microsoft makes if I can't buy out my shareholder (and/or they don't want to sell)?

    What about publically traded companies? I bet you that one of the partners in the Canopy Group owns some IBM stock either directly or indirectly. Should we attack IBM for this?

    You're absolutely nuts and misinformed. This action has ZERO bearing on Trolltech, and Bruce Perens and ANYONE trying to link this to Trolltech is being irresponsible.

    Alex