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SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies
cadfael writes "SCO is reported in the Age as saying they 'Have no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict the earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of this mess.
We're poor and don't have the money to sue very many people, it's just a threat. Please buy us.
well crap. i was just about to send them my money. guess i'll hang onto it now to see how this all turns out.
Not how you think though... There whole plan was to sabotage open source all along. Not through suing companies, but by keeping all the developers commenting on SCO stories all day.
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Think about it. How many articles have there been and how many comments per article? Boy, when the juicy ones came out the number of responses jumped up into the hundreds even nearing a thousand sometimes. Now, imagine if this never happened and all those people got together to work towards one goal. I think with the hours that have been wasted on this story so far, we could've designed and build a mars mission already
They don't seem to actually have a single consistant position on anything.
Is SCO actually being run by a Perl script that periodically checks their stock price to see if it needs to emit some random statement?
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They also said they wouldn't sue Linux end users, then changed their tune later.
See, if you say one thing then say the other instead of just saying what you mean first, that means you get to release two press releases and boost your stock twice!
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It's not a lie, you mischaracterizing clod. It's just an unlikely version of a truth.
They don't have plans to sue anyone. Their plan is for everyone to spontaniously acquiesce and begin showering them with money. And then they plan to romp through the magical faerie garden on their "red-gold and diamond" Segways where the monkeys poop french vanilla ice cream and Bronson Pinchot gives everyone cocaine boosted hummers.
And while it's only slightly less likely than the proverbial monkeys flying out of my butt, it's not *exactly* a complete fabrication.
These guys have to be smoking SOMETHING to explain the cognitive dissonance in their statements. I mean, "We're not talking about the kernel." "We're talking about the kernel." "We're not going to go after end users." "We're going to go after end users." "Well, we're only going to go after companies but not hobbiests." "We changed our minds again, we never intended to go after anybody."
If only I had the spare ten hours I could go over the last years' press releases and make some "found poetry." Blank verse in this case, of course.
Think about it: They act crazy, they say the have awesome weapons that will destroy their enemies, but won't let anyone look at them, they make ridiculous threats against enemies several orders of magnitude more powerful than they are, then beg for money.
The only difference is that North Korea might have nukes, and we all know that SCO has squat...
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"...asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company spokesperson said: 'No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone.'"
From the minutes of a SCO conference with counsel, 8/29/03, participants Darl McBride, Chris Sontag, Blake Stowell, David Boies, and Mark Heise:
Darl: We sued IBM!?!?! How'd that happen?
Chris: (looks down at conference table) Ummm...
(glances over to...)
Mark: Well... David said -
Blake: Shut up, Scheisse.
Mark: It's *Heise*, not scheisse.
Blake: (snorts) Yeah, right.
David: Cut it out, guys.
Look. OK, my bad. Chris and I were having drinks at the bar, and talking
about the Microsoft settlement. Anyway, Chris starts going on about how
we should sue Microsoft again. You know, maybe there's some System V code
in Windows and they misappropriated it. That led into a talk about how we
might use it to show how SCO's business has been hurt by Microsoft, and,
well, from there we started talking about how Linux was hurting the
business. And, you know, we started talking about how all the other
companies, like IBM, were helping Linux. And from there, well, somehow
we ended up filing a suit against IBM.
It's not like we planned on it, you know.
It just sort of... (sighs) happened.
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"SCO claims to know what was copied, so make them post it already."
Yes! Here on Slashdot. And make them read all 1378 responses. Except the -1's. We're not *that* evil. Though, Lord knows, they deserve it.
Their recent actions prove that! They don't have a plan to sue anyone for Linux! Completely! Not a sign of any plan, PURE IMPROVISATION from the beginning to end!!!
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Partygoer: Dude, Daryl, you were so drunk, you will never believe what you did.
Daryl: Ok, did I dance around with a lampshade on my head?
Partygoer: (Chuckle) Nope.
Daryl: Did I upchuck on the new rug?
Partygoer: Nope
Daryl: Okay, who did I fuck with?
Partygoer bursts out laughing, uncontrollably...
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