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SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview
Prizm writes "It seems that SCO is continuing to build up its case for world domination, as today it was awarded U.S. copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code by the U.S. Copyright Office. Shares are up 20%, Novell is nowhere to be found, and SCO is releasing binary, run-only Linux licensing. You can read all about it over in their press release." C|Net is also running an interview with McBride.
SCO awarded patent on breathable air technology, stock in Nature down 50%
The Streets will flow with the blood of the Non-Believers"
WTF? Over?
SCO: "Give me money." Linux user: "Prove you have a right to it first by winning your lawsuit against IBM." SCO: "Damn :/"
SCO is coming dangerously close to infringing on Microsoft's patents
-- "You can lead a yak to water, but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke" - Opus
Linus owns the Linux trademark or servicemark, right? He needs to revoke SCO's right to use the Linux name and any Linux source, binary, or whatever. Something along the lines of "SCO's license to use or distribute the Linux software is hereby revoked. Future distribution of Linux software will be considered a willful violation of copyright," etc. etc.
-- Will program for bandwidth
they announced that all Linux 2.4 users are in violation of their Unix copyrights
And in other news, the Boston police department just announced that every resident is in violation of a citywide law. They won't, however, tell us which law that might be.
Translation:
SCO Obtains New Masturbation Toy, Wanks
Speech delivered in the SCO shareholder meeting
on July 21, 2003
BY DARL MCBRIDE
FÜHRER AND CHANCELLOR
This session of the Reichstag takes place on a date which is full of significance for the Utah Shareholders. Four years have passed since the beginning of that great internal revolution which in the meantime has been giving a new aspect to operating systems. This is the period of four years which I asked the American people to grant me for the purpose of putting my UnixWare to the test and submitting it to their judgement. Hence at the present moment nothing could be more opportune than for me to render you an account of all the successes that have been achieved and the progress that has been made during these four years, for the welfare of the shareholders. But within the limits of the short statement I have to make it would be entirely impossible to enumerate all the remarkable results that have been reached during a time which may be looked upon as probably the most astounding epoch in the life of our people. That task belongs rather to the press and the propaganda. Moreover, during the course of the present year there will be an Exposition here in Berlin which is being organized for the purpose of giving a more comprehensive and detailed picture of the works that have been misappropriated into Linux, the results that have been obtained and the projects on which work has been begun, all of which can be explained better in this way than I could do it within the limits of an address that is to last for two hours. Therefore I shall utilize the opportunity afforded me by this historic meeting of the Reichstag to cast a glance back over the past four years and call attention to some of the new knowledge that we have gained, some of the experiences which we have been through, and the consequences that have resulted therefrom--in so far as there have a general validity. It is important that we should understand them clearly, not only for our own sake but also for that of the generations to come.
Having done this, I shall pass on to explain our attitude towards those problems and tasks whose importance for us and for the world around us must be appreciated before it will be possible to live in better relations with one another. Finally I should like to describe as briefly as possible the projects which I have before my mind for our work in the near future and indeed in the distant future also.
At the time when I used to go here and there throughout the country, simply as a public speaker, people from the bourgeois classes used to ask me why we believed that a revolution would be necessary, instead of working within the framework of the established political order and with the collaboration of IBM, Redhat, and SuSe, for the purpose of improving Linux 2.6, conditions which we considered unsound and injurious. Why must be have a new Unix, and especially why a new Linux revolution?
The answer which I then gave may be stated under the following headings:
Actually, a parachute made of gold, lead, or any other heavy metal would be fine. Just so long as they're kicked out from 8km or higher.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
You know, the one where they want to make placing even a single copyrighted file on the internet against the copyright holders' wishes/license a felony?
If not, do you think it would be too risky or confuse my senator too much if I were to lobby for passing this law, let it sit on the books long enough to let McBride and everyone else in that company redistributing Linux in violation of the GPL get sent to federal, "pound me in the ass" prison, then lobby to get the law repealed afterward?
Dear SCO,
As a contributer to the Linux kernel, I have decided to start a new licensing program. Your company will be required to pay a fee of 5000 USD per cpu on all installations of Linux you use or sell which include my code. Regrettably, I cannot tell you which lines these are, as doing so would my trade secrets to the world.
Also, I have identified numerous cases in which lines of my code were copied into the source for your Unixware product. The same licensing terms I have descibed above will therefore apply to Unixware.
I have sent letters to all 5 of your customers informing them of this new policy. I understand Sun has also been in touch with them.
I will be contacting you soon to discuss payment options.
Thank you.
I sent SCO my name/address/phone number and informed them that they are welcome to come and try to collect. I live in Texas. We pack iron.
We don't play bullshit.
We don't need no steenking licenses!
Begone McBride, you annoy us, lest we dispatch you!
I'm sorry, I will be more informative. You are an idiot.
Great, another militant texan who thinks the law doesn't apply to him as long as he's got his guns. Just what the world needs.
OK so here are some options for a poll.
SCO:
(1) Hasn't read the GPL
(2) Thinks the GPL is a load of bull
(3) Thinks that GPL won't hold up in court
(4) Hopes that IBM will buy them out before going to court
(5) Are a bunch of fscking idiots
(6) First against the wall when the revolution comes
(7) Will win and 0wnzor you all
(8) Will be bought by CowboyNeal
SCO: You are going to have to pay a license to use linux because otherwise you will be illegally using software that we wrote.
Linux User: OK, which lines did you write?
SCO: I'm not telling.
Linux User: I'm not paying.
ALL YOUR UNIX ARE BELONG TO SCO
In Soviet Russia Unix patents SCO
(Sorry I was really bored)
Science is the Real TRUTH!
If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?
FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.
AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.
AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?
Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?
They're "chicken" nuggets, not chicken nuggets.
hint: Alan Cox doesn't work in the United States, never mind Utah.
And he will also never visit the USA again, for fears of being arrested under the DMCA.
Unless its not IBM as a company, but many of the CEOs of companies who have been threatened by SCO (not purchased by companies, but individuals). They all must have an agreement to not purchase over 5% appiece, and then all at once their plans will be revealed!
The illuminati strike again!
Online Starcraft RPG? At
Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
#include
They're a Unix house and they publish their pricelist on an Excell spread sheet - no wonder the actual technology side of the company is in the toilet - guy - you're not selling things because you are speaking a different 'language' from your customers and they can't figure out how to buy stuff from you
Actually, that could be useful for those of us who have wood-burning stoves. My energy bill was HUGE this past winter. I wonder how many nastygrams we can get them to generate?
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
I wonder if Ari Fleischer's Single Bullet Doctrine is applicable here. :)
Remember folks the SCO banktruptcy party is in November..
What are you bringing food or drink?
Don't Tread on OpenSource
>No, that's stupid. I keep hearing this over and over. That was the Santa Cruz Operation, not the new SCO. The new SCO has never released a version of linux, period.
So, say, if all of Boeing's 747's suddenly exploded while in mid-air due to a gross manufacturing neglect (e.g. using crazy glue for the wings), they can go get their name changed to Boing and not worry about litigation?
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
You forgot an option between the last two:
(7.5) is my employer, you insensitive clod!
(Which it isn't, I'd like to clarify, but wanted to make the ObInsensitiveClod joke anyway)
Karma: Frotzed (mostly due to the Frobozz Magic Karma Company)
If they can't match the bits, you must acquit!
Registering a copyright is pretty much like a cat pissing on a couch to say "this is mine"...
This works well for humans, too, at least until someone calls the cops.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
McDonald's is safe -- they don't put "meat" in their nuggets.
Sleep is for the Weak
req@semiotek.com
I have pictures of your wife naked.
I don't care. You can keep them and her too.
That's why I divorced the bitch you dummy...
Sorry, no $$ for you today...
Can we please have a DarlBorg image (similar to the Microsoft story image, but with the obvious difference).
:)
Thanks
With apologies to The Dude:
Wait a minute! He thinks the couch pissers did this??!
The Caldera logo beside the post also looks like a silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head on a red globe. I think I smell another copyright lawsuit.
When I try to manipulate the stock market, I make sure to do it as an AC.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. SCO,
Your son has been aware of our class activities for weeks now, but the date has arrived for our annual show and tell and your son has done nothing but tell.
We were suprised at this, since young SCO has been going about the place telling everyone July is show and tell month, but unfortunately he seems to have become preoccupied with a game he calls "share inflation" with his pals in the playground, which involves helping them all share with him and then taking his own ball away at the crucial moment.
Perhaps a meeting with the two (or one, if young SCO turns out to be the slang term he's behaving like) of you would be appropriate?
Yours,
Concerned teacher.
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
I'm unemployed, have so little personal property that it'd probably raise $300 if you sold it and the record length of a court case in the UK is 4 years and that just begs for breaking. Nothing to lose and a grudge against litigous, meatheaded corporations.
Let's face it, even if they won I'd lose nothing worth worrying about and they'd have to pay their legal bills 'cos I'd declare myself bankrupt and earn fuck all until it times out. If theirs a recession, there'll be even more people with time on their hands and a pissed off attitude