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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."
Yes, that long wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*splat*
That's the sound of one hundred SCO lawyers crashing hard on the ground and making all kind of nice little craters. Now, they know why IBM is nicknamed "Big Blue".
A good start, if you ask me.
Bye bye, SCO. We hardly knew you.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
SCO is DYING to be bought out. They're grasping at whatever straws they can find, thinking that IBM the vampire slayer will finally drive a buyout stake through their black heart.
It's not the billions they sue IBM for, it's the billions of pieces they'd get blown into, that matters.
.Net users - all hotmail users, millions of them. And yet, Hailstorm failed!
Seriously, SCO resembles MS if it thinks increasing the lawsuit size improves their credibility. Sort of like
IMO, SCO's credibility is dropping on a daily basis.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
They would be bluffing and trying to buy their way out.
This is what it looks like in Solaris 8:
It's interesting how you can manage to update (and claim copyright on) what's basically the empty string (at least) five times.
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All I can think of is Dr. Evil...
...(dramatic pause)... 1 BILLION Dollars I will press this button and molten unixware will shoot out of the screen of every linux box on the planet"
Dr. McBride(evil): "Hello IBM executives. As you see behind me I've got the SCO source code aimed at linux, if you do not pay me
IBM Execs: Gasp and then laugh
Number 2: "Umm, 1 billion dollars really isn't a lot of money these days..."
Dr. Evil (McBride): (looking into video phone at IMB executives) "300 Billion Dollars!"
IBM Execs: Gasp and start arguing amongst themselves
Dr. Evil (McBride): "You have until next friday to make your decision" he then presses a button and turns off the video phone. He looks around and begins to laugh in a manical "Muhahahahaha, Muahahahahaha" type laugh.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
what's it mean when, instead of starting at slashdot, i went to google news which linked to this SCO article not through C|NET but to slashdot.
/. or are they trying to protect C|NET?
/. become a trusted news source?
Google News linking to slashdot!?! Do they have it out for
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A good and valid point. Mod parent up please.