SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages

Bootsy Collins writes "This evening on C|Net contains three new items. First, they've upped the damages they're seeking to $3 billion. Second, they claim that by making SMP technology generally available through Linux, IBM violated federal export controls and thus breached their contract with SCO through committing an illegal act. Finally, they elaborate on one specific technology they claim rights to which IBM inserted into the 2.5 kernel series -- the read-copy update memory management features which went in at 2.5.43. Unclear is why SCO thinks they have the rights to RCU, since the technology was originally developed by Sequent in the early 1990s."

Comments

Re:IBM should countersue...

[bernywork]

MOD PARENT UP!

Score -1 off-topic, but use one of your other points to give a +1 funny to parent.

Re:you're a moron

[Bob Abooey]

In short, you lack basic reading comprehension skills.

My whole point was that often times what the unwashed masses might consider common sense and what is defined as legally right or wrong don't coincide.

Thusly and thereforely unless you are a lawyer with access to all the facts you are simply willy nilly making up crap and wildly speculating about stuff which makes you seem less than learned.

But hey, that's always been the slashdot zeitgeist, eh?

News Flash from Next Week

[jabber01]

Dateline - Jun-23-03, Santa Cruz

SCO just hired Al Gore as assistant CIO. With the newly acquired Intellectual Property rights, EVERYONE is hereby ordered to cease and dissist from using the Internet.

Re:They must really be scared now.

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO = Bush
Linux Kernel = Oil Wells
IP = WMD

Scared?

[Monkelectric]

I think it's time to put the fear of god in them. Does anyone else feel it's time for some street justice here?