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landoltjp writes "SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX) are hosting a teleconference today in order to clear the air (*snort*) regarding "Novell's baseless UNIX ownership assertions" and other bits of hubbub and nonesense that's in the news today. Should be fun." And SCO has apparently been enjoined from making some of its claims by a German court (also here.) Cringely has an editorial on the whole mess.
I've had it.. Okay, I just checked my wallet, and I'm ready to offer $43.00 cash for The SCO Group. I know I'm overpaying, but I just want to stop hearing about them!
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$0 is going to have their own section in Slashdot.
Those who trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin
Der Bremer Linux-Spezialist univention_ hat vor dem Bremer Landgericht gegen die SCO Group GmbH eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirkt.
Well! I'm certainly glad to have that cleared up.
...I'm sure they're using SCO UnixWare wherever possible, so dive right in, boys, I'm sure you won't /. them! After all, it's *much* more reliable than Linux, right??
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't these people realize that they're wasting a renewable resource: hot air! We could probably produce megawatts from all of this ill wind...
Q: "Why do sound techs say 'check 1, 2'?"
A: "Cause if they could count any higher they'd be lighting techs."
Just when did SCO become the North Korea of IT?
Fantastic! Since HBO did not air the final episode of "Six Feet Under" last weekend, I have been feeling serial drama-deprived all week!
From this colorful agenda item from the press release, "Comments on Novell's baseless UNIX ownership assertions," it would appear that a fun and exciting installment is about to begin!
Will Novell save Linux? Will SCO go through with the suicide? Will IBM get drunk and break a lamp over SCO's head?
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
I'm hoping for some good old west style vigilante justice!
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Let's see, who's all involved again?
SCO sues IBM
SCO threatens 1500 Linux 'users'
Linus says SCO is full of it and wants proof
Novell knocks SCO on the head for being ID10T's
SCO threatens Linus if they don't receive the ransom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licenses
Microsoft funds SCO, but claims it was 'business as usual'
I think this might make things a little clearer...
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
$CO is wonderful.
All hail the great and powerful $CO.
Pay no attention to the code behind the curtain!
All hail the great and powerful $CO.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
The Sun will nova, engulfing the Earth and SCO in its massive death-blast. SCO's still-undisclosed trade secret IP will be vaporized and that will pretty much be that.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Last Trade
12:26pm $6.66
Hmmmm, 'nuff said.
-- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
That of Bremen Linux specialist univention _ obtained regional court before that of Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH a provisional order
Worst. Sig. Ever.
"I doubt it has very little in common with the original Unix licensed from AT&T however long ago."
So, what you're saying is that you believe it has quite a bit in common with the original Unix?
No?
Well then, maybe what you were looking for was "I doubt it has very much in common with the original Unix licensed from AT&T however long ago."
Q: What do you say to an SCO employee in 2005?
A: I'll have a Big Mac, large fries and a Coke.
Trolling is a art,
for(int i=0;in;i++) They'll be after me next, I use that all the time.
Why have 1 person driving a backhoe when you could employ 20 with shovels?
If you're new to the SCO drama, you can play catch-up here in a context we can all understand.
They have the Internet on computers now?
Memo
From: SCO Management
To: SCO Legal Team
There is no spoon!
You will have to pry my proprietary software $$$ from my cold dead hands!
Quick somebody send them a copy of their threatening letter!
"I'm not a procrastinator, I'm temporally challenged"
I suggest we move them to /dev/null ... all in favor? :-)
-Digital Extremist
It does seem that way - they don't seem to own any copyrights of mass destruction after all 8)
On the other hand, it's good to see that the former Iraqi Information Minister has found new employment...
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SCO: We chose Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf as our new spokesman as he best represents the ideas and image of SCO.
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
sometimes I think he is on something
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
You forgot this...
4)M$ will release M$ UNIX
5)The next day, users of M$ UNIX (former users of SCO) reports the first BSOD for UNIX in the history of UNIX.
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
Just th' good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm...
A Mr. Arie Rubenstein has helped us out here --
"To make [the SCO vs Linux thing] easier to understand, I put it in familiar terms -- Dukes of Hazzard"!
(warning: mirror needed)
For Immediate Release
May 30, 2003
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
-- The SCO Group is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and has done nothing of interest in many years.
Trolling is a art,
Memepool has a link to a fantastic Dukes of Hazard interpretation of the whole SCO/Linux affair.
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
The Sun will nova, engulfing the Earth [...]
Listen, I know some of the old SparcStation 10s run hot, but if you ensure proper ventilation and kept to the recommended CPU combinations you'll have absolutely nothing to worry about.
"In order to protect the rights of ethnic Linux users, we must attack SCO in self-defense."
;)
There ya go.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
scovslinux.slashdot.org. It will make SCO/Linux stories easier to find. I am tired of scrolling through a bunch of technical stories to find them.
SCO ist the celebration of the repellant and painful.
Would you like to touch my monkey?
Now ist the time ver ve dance!
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
On the other hand, it's good to see that the former Iraqi Information Minister has found new employment...
:-]
Hey come on thats well out of order!
He may wish to work for a deranged power mad nutcase intent on world domination but even he has some morals.
Anyway Bill Gates offered him the a role at MS.
jaj
The interview to SCO Information Minister is here
"Schranken verwiesen"
:o)
Isn't that what happens to your naughty bits when you go swimming in a cold lake?
I grepped the kernel source for their code, but there's not a singly instance of "Hello World!". If that doesn't settle the case, I don't know what will.
Wonder about their webcast too - could have made a good phone-in question this past week.
Something like "You're running this webcast on Linux - why is that?"
Esteem isn't a zero sum game
Perhaps I should send an anonymous letter to your CIO warning that certain unnamed portions of Microsoft software have been taken from GPLed sources. I won't name the software, or tell what code's been taken. Instead, I'll just assert that all the "evidence" will come out someday in court, billions of $ will be involved and everybody's liable.
Given two contradictory freight trains of FUD, perhaps his little head will burst.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
*best in the sense of being hilarious.
this is getting old and so are you
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Is there any way to change the caldera story icon to something like a zombie hand or rotten fish head or something? I don't think they deserve to be recognized by their official corporate symbol anymore. If Microsoft rates a borg photoshop, Caldera certainly should get something more exemplary of their character and bearing.
Like say, cat vomit.
could sco be using this time to edit there own CVS logs?
No... First they edit their pocket books, then they fold up shop and edit their pants.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
$C0 ... I read that as 192 dollars. Upping the ante as it were?
SIGBUS @ NO-07.308
For an interesting alternative to all of the complications being presented in the current case, may I suggest a "picture book" view for the younger readers.
The Death Penalty: Killing people to show others that killing people is wrong.
Option 3. Take a dump in it, then send it back.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I just had a look at SCOX's stock on Yahoo. They closed up about 12% from yesterday's close.
I can't help but suspect this increase in price was due to thrillbert's buyout offer.
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p
Yeah, well at least we don't have to wait until we get to the last chapter of our novels to get to all the verbs. ;)
I'm very amused to see that the banner running on top of the ofb.biz article you posted, was an ad by a "SCO Premier Reseller" advertising " SCO Linux WorkStation(TM)" and " SCO Linux Server(TM)" Wierd. http://www.sysintegrators.com/caldera/?source=goog le
It think this is like SCO. Just wait til sundown.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...