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Still more links on SCO's assorted allegations of copyright infringement. They say they're going to sue Novell. Software analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on SCO too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And Wired has an old story which I think sums up the SCO claims pretty well.
blah blah blah blah blah!!!
*i_am_not_lis-ten-ing*!!!
For Immediate Release
June 3, 2003
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The SCO Group is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and has done nothing of interest for many years.
Trolling is a art,
If you go to the zoo, you can go see some monkeys there that have no apparent ammo. Until one of them takes a shit, that is.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
This site has described the SCO-Linux situation using the Dukes of Hazzard metaphor.
:)
I found it quite helpful
All this talk about this technology known as SCO. It seems cool, hell, it has to be with all this Slashdot coverage. But does it run Linux?
Who is this Sue Linus and why is SCO threatening her?
Normally this would not be right, but since this won't stop until they run out of cash, and they have to pay for bandwidth... here goes...
a dmin.pdf
Got bandwidth? Mad at SCO? Download a 5mb file from here or launch an unspecified number of wget processes:
wget http://www.sco.com/images/pdf/eserver/eserver_sys
This way, you'll know how to administrate their linux server which they discontinued.
I suppose that Michael is in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation here. If he watches the ad, he opens himself up to harassment for it (unclean! unclean!). If he doesn't watch the ad, he looks a little incompetent.
Not that I am saying that you shouldn't harass Michael...now that would just be silly.
Read: a review of the code by *anyone* "means absolutely, positively nothing".
"The month of June is show-and-tell time," McBride said.
then after that, it's time for a nap.
McBride characterized Novell's move as "a desperate measure..."
Pot to Kettle, come in Kettle, are you there?
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I see where this is headed!
IBM buys SCOX...
IBM changes name to SCOX...
SCOX sues Microsoft... "You should of read what you bought! 0wned!"
This is funny. Someone should mirror it before ot dies.
http://www.arie.org/doh/
I think "blow" is the wrong metaphor. A "blow" implies strength, power, and the ability to inflict pain and damage. None of those apply to SCO.
SCO is making a lot of noise and releasing a lot of hot air, something that should be embarrassing to SCO and is somewhat annoying but generally harmless to the bystanders. That kind of event is more accurately described as a "fart", not a "blow".
So, using this more accurate metaphor, the reporter should probably change the article to read:
Confucius: Man who italicizes word its spelling should respect lest moderators invite all to see folly.
Confucius say: Hey, I don't talk like Yoda. Give me some credit.
She (MRS. M. GOTCHA), has as a result of the trust and confidence she has in me mandated that I search for a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner, who will help receive some UNIX source code which she has totaling Five Million United States LOC into a personal, company or any reliable foreign Unix-like system for safe keeping for a short period of time, since her family computer accounts within and outside the country have all been frozen by the authorities.
This source code in question has however, been carefully kept in defaced form and deposited with a security company that has branches in Europe and America. You may therefore be required to travel to any of the branches to collect the source code on behalf of my client for safe keeping.
I shall let you into a complete picture of this mutually beneficial transaction when I have received your anticipated positive reply. This matter should be treated as urgent and confidential. This is very important.
PS, it's very important that you maintain your current good relationship with Dr. Linus. Only he has the keys to the vault in which we must deposit our Five Million United States LOC. When added to the Millions of LOC already there, we will all become very rich.
Best Regards,
Dr.Darl McBloodsukr
or worse than slashdot... where you get to stare at an MS ad 20 seconds while the restof the page loads and renders.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
a world in progress...
...it was well used by this man. Never underestimate what a company would do to keep up the illusion that they're winning.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Never thought i would be routing for Novell any time soon.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Would the team at SCO really keep pushing a lie,
It's all they have.
even though they know that by doing so they will face unspeakable countersuits after the trial(s)?
They have nothing left to lose. They've been dead for years. Linux and *BSD make them irrelevant. They have nothing left, except the outside chance that they'll be acquired and/or temporary inflation of stock. The desire to be acquired is why they are making threatening noises to Linux users, (blackmail to encouage IBM to shutSCO up by purchase) which were entirely undermined by Novell's staetments about copyright ownership.
HAHA, yea right. Had ya going there, didn't I?
FUCK! SHIT! FUCK! Why don't I read the WHOLE post before starting these long involved replies?
"that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
I'm hoping a little anal probing of Darl and his cronies courtesy the SEC is in the offing as well. Maybe he can share a cell with Martha Stewart.
On second thought, that's a bad idea. I loath to think of the amoral, ethically berift offspring those to pieces of garbage would beget...
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
for(i =0; i j; i++)
I have a very small mind and must live with it.
-- E. Dijkstra
Yes, this was ripped right out of AT&T Unix and was found in Linux after careful examination by SCO:
++i;
Note the use of the letter "i", indicating it got there via IBM.
Yeah, but contrary to your analogy.... a supernova is also pretty bright. Need I say more?
For some reason I see the SCO CEO, only it is really Dr. Evil, and he has his pinky up to his mouth as he says, "One Billion Dollars!"
I haven't lost my mind!
It is backed up on disk...somewhere...
Even if SCO in fact owns the code that they claim was copied, how can they expect to get a billion off of it? They themselves say it's only a couple hundred lines at most. That's nothing. How much do you think the author of the code was paid? $30 for writing it? Plus $200 for debugging it? Lets say he was drunk that week and got $500 total for the code in question, or about $2 a line. SCO's demanding a 200000% markup on that. That's not justice and the leaked IP has nothing to due with SCO's financial troubles.
They decided to stake their future on a small set of products and instead of introducing new products and services when faced with tough competition, they just ignored the problem for so long that now the only way they can profit is by suing their once most valuable customers.
I just wish that somebody would just buy SCO's collective asses and shut them the hell up
Why don't we(slashdot readers) kick in and pull a blender on SCO? Damn, that would be great, if everybody that reads slashdot could kick in as much as they could, 10, 100, 1000 bucks, whatever, we could buy SCO.
Once we buy them we release all code into the public domain, not even GPL, I'm talking Jingle Bells type licensing here. Then we dissolve the company, just let 'er go.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how the business world works.
You've got an easy breezy wind at your back...most of the time.
is it me or is SCO suing EVERYBODY now? I wonder if they will soon decide to sue God for creating a universe in which all these patent infringement stuff takes place.
I seem to remember a case where some guy's house was destroyed by a tornado... so he sued the church. Supposedly, the church represented God, and God controlled the weather (act of nature and all that), so it must have been the church's fault.
The guy won the lawsuit.
If Microsoft buys SCO though, they could throw all teh money into legal funds and "prove" that unix is theres and shut down all the free(speech)ware on suspicion that they contain illegal code.
luckly i have a patent pending on this method of pissing off slashdot and am incorporating it into an off-off-off-broadway musical, so any attempt to replicate these actions will result in me crying to the RIAA about how i'm not being treated fairly as an artist (and won't be able to sell any copies of the soundtrack). Perhaps the RIAA and Microshoft have large enough legal funds to kill eachother in an Arthur/Mordred type way
--- As to make my comment seem, by comparison, more intelegent... doodie doodie doodie poop poop poop!
You know, put like that "SCO SCO SCO", it made me think SCO would make a good swear word. I'm not sure what it would mean and in what context one would use it, but I'm sure people can think of something. It would have to mean something SCOing awful, that's for sure. Windows ME is SCOware? The project is ruined, that idiot SCOed everything up!
Maybe?
Oooh. Someone needs to make a screenplay about this. Cross "Ransom" with "Trading Places". Darl McBride (Mel Gibson) has a daughter (Natalie Portman) kidnapped by thugs (Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, and Eddie Murphy (or is that too many black people for a white movie?)) in the employ of a castrating bitch Wall Street lawyer (Cameron Diaz), who force poor little Darl McBride to pump up his company's stock in the next four days or else .
This thing is practically writing itself.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
1. Announce you're launching a lawsuit for a staggering amount of money on an IP/Contract claim against IBM.
2. Announce revenues are up as the result of threatening letters to companies who use Linux.
3. Publicly announce that MSFT bought a licence (I think MS is involved in this somehow, BWT).
4. McBride fodders the market with rumors that they are looking to be bought by IBM. Nothing makes a stock price jump like rumors that small company X may be bought out by huge company Y.
Surely there's a patentable business practice in all this.
:wq
If they did that, I would be sure to buy a few copies of whatever they release next.
ThankWare?
I'd be offended also if I found SCO in my code. :)
;)
If I was SCO, I would be so embarassed to find my
trashy code in someone's prog or OS that I would
litigate to just have the nasty *&^% removed.
Wouldn't you?
Cooter - Bruce Perens
I'm sure Bruce will be very happy to hear about this...
the no
You got it. Secret comments like these:
- /* Remember: "Different name, same old buggy as shit hardware." */
- /* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface like this. Good job guys...
*/
- * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
*
- The four ACI command types are fucked up. [-:
All taken directly from the kernel source.This is left as an exercise for the reader.
I will use their products, reccommend their products, and defend their products to the best of my abilities.
But you won't buy their products?
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
You mean, besides reading all of the articles, we now have to read all of the replies, too?
Get off my launchpad!
The pdf link gives:
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Document Not Found
To find the document you're looking for, please see our company sitemap
or use the following search:
Just put this code in your webpages to pull images from their site and display them in a 1x1 size!:
<img src="http://www.sco.com/images/scolinux/main_imag
While they're at it, they should have a go at Apple.
... we all know that's where the /REAL/ zealots live :)
I mean, come on, they've raised the ire of all the Linux zealots, and now surely the Novell zealots (these do still exist in captivity, in fact, I work with some). Perhaps even the OS/2 zealots (being as how they're suing IBM 'n all).
Go on, just have a poke at apple
They should also tread on some BeOS and Amiga toes while they're at it, just to try to set a world record at pissing off the most amount of zealots in one law suit ever!
Imagine the PR!
-- James "Bragi" Deucker Patrician of Networks
SCO have had to develop code already in Linux over the last years. They also have had a product "SCO Systems V for Linux".
I'll bet any lazy developer there at some time must have "lifted" a few lines from Linux.
Anybody with enough insigth to go look for this. That would be the ultimate embarresment for SCO
I know this whole SCO/Linux thing can be very confusing, so I created this summary page to explain what's going on.
Look everyone... It's a pretender!
Or it's an actual attorney, who is keeping his username hidden because he doesn't want to be beseiged with requests for free professional advice. It's a fairly common practice IME, for lawyers and doctors both.
Here - I guarantee that this line exists both in Linux kernel, and in SCO's. And in various IBM products too.
The original authors of this code, Kerningham and Ritchie, have not commented on the copyright question.In Murphy We Turst
Here is the first line of offending code:
x++;
And you have not seen it all, there are hundreds of lines like that, the bastard crackers just cahnged the name of the variable in all the code!
And there is even more:
x--;
You did not see that one coming you fucking nerds. Take that you pirates!
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
----- Original Message -----
From: Darl McBride
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (The officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local
and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number
(c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to
(d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,
Darl McBride
Ron Paul
Hilarious. The salon article was well done. My favorite line (it actually had me laugh out loud) has to be:
For folks keeping score, "SCO" doesn't stand for "Santa Cruz Operation" any longer, and it's to be pronounced not as three separate letters but as a word that rhymes with "fiasco."
Priceless
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, let's give SCO money! That'll teach 'em!