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SCO Drops Linux, Says Current Vendors May Be Liable
Hank Scorpio writes "Well, SCO is at it again. I just received an email from their Developer Partner Program stating that not only are they suspending all future sales of their own Linux product (due to the alleged intellectual property violations), but they are also beginning to send out this letter to all existing commercial users of Linux, informing them that they may be liable for using Linux, a supposed infringing product. They mentioned that they will begin using tactics like those of the RIAA in taking action against end-users of Linux. This seems like it will be about as successful as the whole GIF ordeal a few years back. Where is UNISYS today? Is SCO litigating itself into irrelevance?"
...is fixing Dell comptuers now...
They're at our place about twice a month or more.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
LOL! You'll have pry my Linux from my cold, dead harddrive fucker.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
OK, so here's the incentive we've all been waiting for, we should all migrate to BSD now. I swear by OpenBSD :)
it's meant to be funny.
"Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software. This process is designed to monitor the security and ownership of intellectual property rights associated with the code. "
Wait a minute. Someone designed the process by which commecrial software is built. Why hasn't someone patented it yet?
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they are punishing themselves before they sue themselves. Maybe they sent themselves a cease and desist order and they took it seriously. I think they realized they had enough legal issues going on and they didn't need another one from themselves. I hope the Smoking Gun gets ahold of a copy of the cease and desist. Then, we can get the real inside story.
They are setting an example. Of course, that example is "stupidity". But you have to give them credit for trying.
In other news, Rambus merged with SCO to form the largest legal team in the universe(s). Cease and desist letters were sent to every inhabitant of Earth as a precautionary measure.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
So SCO sold one this quarter?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
I thought that SCO was already irrelevant. :)
Truthfully, this will go exactly nowhere - even if IBM has to buy SCO.
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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I don't know about the rest of you, but when I got here all I saw was a large blue
"YES!"
right under the question, "is SCO litigating itself into irrelevance?"
(It's actually part of an Intel ad, but hey...it's a good magic-8 ball to me).
This company reminds me of this article. What makes them think they have enough clout to even attempt this? They're going to bully IBM?
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
I can see it now. Download your next Red Hat ISO and it'll be a 650meg recording of "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
Today, SCO filed a lawsuit against SCO for selling Linux based solutions with Unix properietery code that it had contributed to the Linux development project. The lawsuit is for irrepairable damages and seeks an award of $10,000,000,000 and legal fees. The CEO of SCO had this to say, "We expect a quick settlement to this case." He also added that "With the settlement money and our recouped legal fees, we can move on to other Linux / Unix distributors, such as Santa Cruz Operation or Caldera."
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Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
Talk about falling on your own sword. Imagine suing your customers for buying one of your products.
Is there a Darwin Awards just for really fatally boneheaded corporate maneuvers?
Each of these SCO executives should be slapped in the face with a wet fish.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Why mirror it? It's not like Slashdotting SCO would be a *bad* thing, would it?
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
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"That's the one thing I never could stand about Santa" Cruz, all the goddamned bloodsuckers!
Surely, they must be. Together, our combined slashdot brain power can fine some sort of damning evidence proving the Microsoft collusion in this.
I have faith in all of you.
Doesn't MS own part of SCO? If linux is going to die, WE MUST PIN IT ON MICROSOFT! Otherwise we won't have the Martyr effect we need.
This won't hurt IBM. They still plan on selling big mainframes with their own software on it (largely helped on by free linux developers contributions). So what if IBM gets free slave labor and offers nothing in return other than cutting out the little linux consultants with their IBM Consulting Group behemoth.
We don't care about IBM and how they exploit free software developers. Or Apple for that matter and their use expliotation of FreeBSD. We honeslt don't care about SCO. The heart of this is somehow MS is FORCING SCO TO DO THIS. They obviously are blackmailing them. WE MUST FIND THE PROOF!
I eagerly await facts supporting what we all know must be true....
-Malakai
yes i'm friggin kidding.
-Malakai
A Dragon Lives in my Garage
Sorry, I can't get enough of that troll. It's too funny.
Random is the New Order.
May 14, 2003
Today every previous and current Linux kernel developer filed a class-action lawsuit against SCO claiming that since SCO has access to the Linux kernel source and mailing lists they might have taken some of the code or ideas from the mailing list and incorporated them into their own kernel.
IBM later announced that they too will join the lawsuit since they have contributed code not part of the original UNIX code and fear that SCO may inappropriately be using their copyrighted work without following the license of the Linux kernel.
The lawsuit aims for two outcomes: Monetary compensation and to force SCO to release their source code so that it can be reviewed for possible infringements.
Linus was quoted as saying: "There is no way they could have written any UNIX like operating system since they only seem to have lawyers working in the company."
Quit... Right now... While you still have some tiny speck of self-respect... Stop what you're doing and quit... Now...
What is it with Utah software companies? Heck, I am Mormon myself, and I still don't understand it.
Quiet; this is Slashdot. We're supposed to pretend that only Microsoft products are riddled with security holes.
Another good reason to use OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
The site www.sco.com is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux.
Looks like they need to shut down their own website.
How can we band together to stop idiots like this?
FYI, the monkeys who post on the Yahoo! message boards are writing things such as this:
Re: Excellent news AH
by: treycc (32/M/Rochester, NY) 05/14/03 04:47 pm
Msg: 6563 of 6565
Gee, SCO must be really if-y on what they are doing. Hehehehehehehehehheheheheheheheheh... This is going to be quite a ride. Everyone may freak and bail and the stock may suffer for a while--I don't know--but with the SCOSource funds starting to come in things are churning. Hehehehehehehehehehehehe Oh the poor linux geeks. Their little Star Trek-like existence is threatened--this ought to be good for some more illegal tampering with the SCO systems. That seems to be how they handle their stress--strike out in the only way they know how. Hehehehehehehehehe, hohohohohohoho...
It will gratify my to see them lose their kids' college funds. I think the poster shown above is really Steve Ballmer under an alias, but I've been wrong before.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
How can I help, you ask? By supporting strong intellectual property laws. And supporting your local technology company ... if they're still around in five years, they will be paying plenty of IP lawyers.
At this point you may have some worries. I hate innovation, you say ... what if the money I invest in technology companies is used to advance technology?
No need to worry. Less and less potential IP lawyer salary is wasted on technology every day, and many visionary technology companies have already made the switch to an all-IP lawyer technical staff! No pesky engineers needed!
Call your elected representative. Tell them that you support the welfare for IP lawyers program, and to keep those IP laws coming! And make sure you say, "A lonely black suit won't happen on my watch."
Jack Valenti and the MPAA are to technology as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
Dear SCO,
Regarding your recent lawsuit against the so-called Linux operating system. Linux is only the kernel, the whole system should be refered to as GNU/Linux. I would really appreciate it if you change all Linux references to GNU/Linux in all your legal documents. Thank you!
Yours sincerely Richard Stallman
while(TRUE) or while(1) implies a specific state for the condition. Leaving the argument empty requires only that the condition exist, in my pseudocode. Basically, put any condition you want in there, and it will work.
:)
Works for me, anyway.
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
Does this need to be pointed out again?
SCO is infringing on thier own intellectual property!
Oh wait, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE
why do I get the feeling that Microsoft money is somehow behind this effort???
Oh shit! MS Money is now an autonomous agent manipulating the world of big business for its own sinister ends? I need to get a different checkbook program!
Coffee not strong enough? Salt Lake City is the only place I've ever had espresso that tasted watered-down; I didn't even know that was possible...
[BTW, a bunch of the uClinux hackers seem to be in Utah]
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Perhaps they won't make any more sales or revenue, but their stock price has more than tripled [yahoo.com] in the last 3 months, maybe because of all the press?
That was me. I had a spare $100 so I'm trying to buy a controlling interest. I originally had honest intentions of releasing all the Sys V code under the GPL, but now that I'm a high flying corporate mogul I fear I am being corrupted.
:wq
REDMOND, Washington - March 10, 2003 - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), the proven owner of the patent for Most Hated Company of All Time, today announced that it has filed legal action against The SCO® Group (SCO) (NASDAQ: SCOX) in the State Court of Washington, for misappropriation of corporate image, torturous interference, unfair competition and breach of contract. The complaint alleges that SCO made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the monetary value of Microsoft's image as Most Hated Company of All Time, particularly Most Hated Company of All Time in the Information Technology sector, to benefit SCO's licensing division.
:)
Taken from: Microsoft files lawsuit against SCO
It's funny. Laugh.
if anyone read the article, this wouldn't be slashdot
"What they have done is steal our properties. They steal our codes and make it free beer. This is wrong. But we do something very beautiful. We sue IBM, we sue Linus, we sue everyone who touches free-beer software. We will sue them all for 1 billions dollars. All will be sued, none will not be sued. We will sue with lawyers, bullets and shoes."
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
He was strong and brave and worked for the open side of the Source....
Then he was seduced by the Dark Side and became Darth SCO, and attempted to destroy all the other Jedi.
Until defeated by IBM Kenobi.