SCO SCO SCO!

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.

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SCO

[grub]

For Immediate Release
June 3, 2003
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

The SCO Group is proud to announce the latest product in its family of
software products. "LawsuitClusterFuck(tm)" uses advanced SCO
technologies to send out threatening letters to random businesses
harvested from the internet.

"It's a great day for the internet, open source and business!"
proclaimed SCO spokesperson Charles F. Uckwad, III. "If you wanted
to send out menacing extortion letters before, one would have to
look up the address of the recipient in a phone book. Now, with "LawsuitClusterFuck(tm)"
you just need to write up the threat as a standard form letter. Using
standard variable names such as $COMPANY, $SHAKEDOWN_AMOUNT and
$LIE_NUM the LawsuitClusterFuck software will use SCO's advanced
heuristics to fill in the blanks. You'll need to hire an army of
envelope stuffers!"

The SCO Group is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and has done nothing of interest for many years.

Re:SCO still packs a punch?

[PD]

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.

For the sake of clarity - a different perspective

[Zepalesque]

This site has described the SCO-Linux situation using the Dukes of Hazzard metaphor.

I found it quite helpful :)

Oh please...

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

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_sysa dmin.pdf

This way, you'll know how to administrate their linux server which they discontinued.

Re:hah

[Anonymous Coward]

"The month of June is show-and-tell time," McBride said.


then after that, it's time for a nap.

"second blow"?

[73939133]

SCO delivered a second blow this month when it sent letters to 1,500 corporations using Linux,

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:

SCO CEO Darl McBride farted again this month in the presence of 1500 corporate Linux users. He did not seem to show any embarrassment.

GOLDEN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

[Chyeburashka]

I am an Attorney and close confidant of MRS. MARYAM GOTCHA, the former first lady and wife of the late GENERAL RAY GOTCHA, the former head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Utahwonga.

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

SCO's lawyer

[Malfourmed]

Even though SCO has hired David Boies as its attorney -- the legal star whose past clients include Al Gore and Napster ...

And with a track record like that, how can SCO possibly lose?

Re:SCO still packs a punch?

[4minus0]

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.

Re:SCO still packs a punch?

[krappie]

I know this whole SCO/Linux thing can be very confusing, so I created this summary page to explain what's going on.