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LinuxTag To SCO: Detail Code Theft Or Retract Claims
RoLi writes "Heise has a story (The babelfish translation sounds like a speech from Yoda, but the important facts are translated correctly.) about LinuxTag taking legal action against SCO. SCO will either have to retract their claims, disclose their "proof" (if it exists) or be fined. That's certainly good news."
Update: 05/26 17:25 GMT by T : Reader Fizz points to the more understandable LinuxTag press release (in English and German), and adds: "The notice, dated Friday, May 23, maintains that SCO Group is sowing uncertainty among the community of GNU/Linux users, developers and suppliers."
Maybe now we won't have a SCO/Linux story every day.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
You don't need babelfish to understand "Hey SCO; shit or get off the pot!"
Trolling is a art,
Hans's Bavarian, Geschaeftsfuehrer of SCO Germany, confirmed, three warnings to have received.
German, Yoda is?
From the Babelfish translation: three warnings to have received
In related news, George Lucas confirms that LucasArts is to sue AltaVista for stealing trade secrets relating to proprietary Yoda Speech Mannerisms v3.1 algorithms.
Not making any guarantees of validity...
LinuxTag warns SCO
The LinuxTag e.V. warned SCO of its anti-competitive behavior. SCO stated that Linux infringed on its enterprise Unix patent rights, since Unix source code was cpoied into the Linux source, and warns Linux users that they could be made liable "for the use of Linux". So far SCO has not disclosed which parts of Linux are concerned.
The warning is to now force SCO to submit proofs for the alleged infringement, or retract their statements. 'With the allegations made by SCO, they are causing economic loss to their competitors through intimidation of their competitors customers and damaging the relationship of Gnu/linux as open platform', says Michael Kleinhenz, LinuxTag e.V spokesman.
Hans's Bavarian, CEO? of SCO Germany, confirmed that three warnings have been received. The letters were examined time by a lawyer at the time. The letter states that the present legal situation for Linux companies is unclear. Also SCO wants to only submit a clarifying brief, covering its proofs of copyright offences by Linux in the lawsuit against IBM. SCO had sued IBM for a billion US dollar compensationat the beginning of March .
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Finally, a useable version.
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I get it now.
/. because Dickie and Brucie were important to SCO and he wasn't.
ESR is sending out press releases and posting on
Makes perfect sense.
Yeah, but I read a leaked copy of the script. Apparently SCO are going to win, in a dramatic plot twist in the final episode of this season. The writer is quoted as saying 'It was the only way we could see a chance at getting funding for a second season'. When asked about the probability of a second season, a network executive who whished to remain anonymous stated 'Well, it's been a lot more popular than we expected, but we're still not sure yet.' There are no known plans for syndication yet.
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The SCO attorneys were seated across the courtroom from
IBM's legal team. "Your Honour," began SCO lead council
Henry L. Pencilneck, "we believe the defendent typed SCO
trade secrets into the Linux kernel. Furthermore, your Honour,
we maintain he did so whilst wearing this.."
The courtroom went silent as Pencilneck dumped the contents
of a brown paper bag on the table he was behind. The courtoom
erupted in gasps and cries as a bloodied leather glove landed
silently on the table. "Order! Order!" called Judge Shyster
as he hit his gavel.
"Mr. Pencilneck, why was this not brought into evidence earlier?"
asked the Judge. Pencilneck smiled. "Your Honour, only this morning
did we find this glove behind a small guest house owned by the
lead programmer employed by the defendent. Furthermore, we are
ready to prove that during the night the alleged copyright
transgressions took place, the lead programmer from IBM's Linux
project hit his head on an air conditioner behind the guesthouse
which is what caused him to drop this glove! Finally, we maintain
that in the guest house, none other than Linus Torvalds himself was
living rent-free." Two of SCOs programmers in the courtroom
broke into tears as they looked on the glove which was covered
in blood they maintain was from their source code. "There's only
one way to settle this," sighed Judge Shyster, "Have Linus Torvalds
try on this glove." The courtroom exploded.
A door at the back of the courtoom opened. Four armed guards
encircled a furniture wheeler
bearing the straight-jacketted form of Linus. Women in the courtroom
fainted.
Unshackling his right hand a guard tried to fit the glove on Linus.
It didn't fit.
The courtoom exploded again. "Order! Order," cried Judge Shyster,
"Notice how Torvalds balled up his fist? It won't fit in a glove like
that, but.." The Judge leaned back, "Bring in the Goatse.cx guy!"
To Be Continued
Trolling is a art,
Mark Twain once said he'd never read another book in German, because once he did attempt it, and got to the last page, but it was missing.
But all the verbs were on the last page.
So anyhow, thank goodness for the last line. It's a lifesaver.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
I had already apologized for the poor translation of the engrish bastardization which I posted earlier. I was just sectioning out part of it for someone who couldn't understand my piss-poor translation.
And one of the problems with translating German is you never really know when to yell. That is why there isn't a lot of German love poetry.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Because Mandrake is just now trying to claw out of bankruptcy, and doesn't have money to tie down in litigation right now?
As for Red Hat and SuSe, I honestly think they don't see it as a threat. For that matter, why doesn't IBM counter-sue? Simply because A) it takes money to sue, and B) even if you win against SCO, what can you win? They have less assets then a Napster verture capitalist.
CEO: Well, the suits over. And now, we... Have a massive overstock of SCO branded mugs!
Accountant: Ceramic, or plastic?
CEO: Ceramic.
Accountant: Ooo, that's high quality. I'll alert the stock holders!
It's just not worth the time to them, I'd imagine.
Except bees die after they sting. Can i be a yellow jacket instead? Wasps (the bug) don't have to die.
Somebody set them up the code. They have no chance to survive make their time. All their kernel are belong to SCO.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
LinuxTag will probably tell SCO 'tough cookies' and possibly blacken the sky with paratrooping attourneys... maybe with some air support from IBM.
.30 cal DE rounds.
I hope this means I'll get to fly that A-10 I have sitting in my back yard and peg some SCO attourneys with the beloved
"I'd like to see a date put on this."
A quick search on google resolved this.
The quote itself isn't nearly as offensive as the entire email.
"And what, exactly, are SCO trying to imply with this?"
Simple. Like the Perens quote, they are simply showing a behavior of disrespect towards Copyright laws.
"Summary: Yet more FUD. Thanks, SCO, now please disappear off the face of the Earth."
The easiest way to discredit Open Source to the software development community is to quote Stallman, Perens. That's not SCO's problem, that's yours.
SCO: YOU ARE USING OUR IP UNLICENSED PAY US BIG MONEY. ...Linux is the work of thousands of developers around the world, your claim is baseless.
IBM:
SCO: WE HAVE PROOF
IBM: Show us.
SCO: NO!
IBM: Fine, we'll go to court.
SCO: WHAT? YOU DON'T WANT TO BUY US?
IBM: Our Lawyers are better than your lawyers. neener neener
According to the OSDN site there are 2.9 Million Active visitors to slashdot, which means if we each pony up $50 or so into a fund we could buy the SCO Group outright and release the source into the wilds of the Public Domain or GPL it.
Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69
From secret SCO documents:
Lawyers using advnaced pattern matching software have found that the ENTIRE LINE:
"main() {"
occurs in both SCO UNIX 'source code' and Linux 'kernel' 'source code' numerous times.
Coincidence? SCO thinks not...
Spongebob lies down and acts dead.
Spongebob: Hey Patrick, what am I?
Patrick: Uhh, you're dead?
Spongebob: No, Patrick, I'm SCO.
Patrick: What's the difference? ha ha ha ha
Spongebob: ha ha ha ha
...but there's no evidence to suggest a larger conspiracy.
The "good" ones (conspiracies) leave no evidence.
cheers- raga
We need a new ultra unique Slashdot topic icon...the SCO logo combined with the Microsoft logo, alongside a sickle and a hammer.
C'mon, it returns an int, so for the love of lint, call it int main()!!
SCO has done a better job distributing FUD than it ever has distributing Unix.