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SCO Invoices For Unix Licenses Get Closer
beggs writes "BusinessWeek, InfoWorld and the EE Times Online all have stories about SCO's plans to send out license invoices to Linux vendors for 'Unix license fees for Linux.' The experts advice: Wait and see what happens with the court cases before you pay." RowLowy points to ZDnet's story, which says that "SCO will pursue commercial Linux users who have discussed their Linux work publicly ... However, it won't take action until it's done more research on those businesses." JayR writes to say that Michael Dell recently told a gathering of Dell investors that Dell Computer will offer no protection from SCO lawsuits to customers who buy Linux-based systems from Dell. Keep score: an anonymous reader points out that SCO executives are still selling off their stock. Total proceeds in August of over $600,000. Senior Vice President Reginald Broughton tops the list with over $300,000."
"and if my accountant is watching please STOP PAYMENT on this check"
Dell will offer no protection? Well I guess that just sounded the death knell for their Linux based offerings.
Who would buy a system with this issue hanging over their head? Computers are uncertain enough as it is!
That's just crazy! Does Darl know you've found his stash? The article didn't mention if you received a license for one cpu along with the immunity from the standard baby killing. I've often heard of companies having a crack legal team, but this is the first time that I've heard of one being on crack.
Please mod me down, I'm a redundant, trolling, flamebait-loving dogmatist and I was a pro-DMCA lobbyist.
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Sure, we won't sue linux companies. We are going to go straight to billing them!
So I guess they weren't lying!
Viv
Gmail invites for ip
...make great toilet paper.
Although they may not flush well after use - better to send them back from whence they came, once you got your use out of it.
Please use a plastic-lined envelope - no need to punish the poor mail carrier for SCO's stupidity.
DG
Want to learn about race cars? Read my Book
before you flame me - hear me out. i was just talking to my workmate, and he exclaimed 'SCO is awesome'. i was a bit taken aback, but after he explained himself i agree.
:) ....
it goes a little something like this: SCO is awesome because they guys are just so UTTERLY ridiculous. as idiotic as their thinking is, you have to respect the confidence they have to send out invoices. it is sort of like those poor flys and insects who are attracted to the bright lights of a bug zapper - as many times as they've seen their comrades electrocuted, they still have the wherewithal to fly directly to their deaths. well SCO, you haven't got long to live, so you might as well go out with a bang.
feel free to send me that invoice, by the way, i'm out of toilet paper
smd4985
BTW, Darl, I'm looking for a new job. Considering that I have no legal experience whatsoever, can think of loads of silly lawsuits in under 5 minutes (see above), I think I'll fit in perfectly with your legal team.
Arrggghhh!! My eyes!!!
First she does a topless Christmass special. Now she is a love slave to McBride
-- Phase 1: Collect under pants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit
Germany definately has it together.
German man: Entschuldigen Sie, bitte, konnen Sie Deutsch sprechen?
Basil: I'm sorry, could you say that again?
German lady: You speak German?
Basil: Oh, German! I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you. Of course, the Germans!
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
Or alternately, I hope the US courts wake up and follow the lead of the German courts.
Are you kidding? We're still trying to figure out how they make their beer so damned good.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
They're obviously not too scared of SCO - they're hiring a paralegal to take care of everything.
SCOmbags.
...you get your incorrect Simpsons-quote corrected within 5 minutes.
by BigDumbAnimal (532071) on Wednesday September 03, @11:02AM (#6858949)
"and if my accountant is watching please STOP PAYMENT on this check"
by Anonymous Cowtard (573891) on Wednesday September 03, @11:06AM (#6858989)
Incorrect, it's:
Krusty: "And if my banker is watching, let nothing STOP you from PAYMENT on this check."
A cout order? Is that written with the linux version of iostream.h then?
As a state agency
You're a state agency?
You smell like you might be the department of Agriculture?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
The postage alone will kill you. :)
"Sometimes the truth is stupid." - Lawrence, creator of Prime Intellect
Are you kidding? We're still trying to figure out how they make their beer so damned good.
Ahh, the beer purity law. There is some government regulation that even a libertarian can get behind!
Viv
Gmail invites for ip
"You can go f*ck yourselves."
I think it's very sound. As a matter of fact, I believe they are following it at the moment.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
$600,000 is peanuts and most of the sales were planned sales.
I wouldn't mind a few of those peanuts!
http://www.tuxrocks.com/
Achille Talon
Hop!
That's about 500 more SCO stories on Slashdot's front page before the trial even begins. Wow, it's going to be a long year.
If this truly is exortion, then shouldn't the SCO executive team be sent to federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison ?
Is prison rape still not funny as some Slashdotter so adamantly posted last week ?
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
And doesn't Texas have some arcane law about how it's legal to shoot someone if they're too damn dumb to live?
Come, Americans. You've got more guns than you have people. Surely you can take care of the SCO problem!
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Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
lots of companies don't pay invoices unless they quote a purchase order number which matches the invoiced amount to within 5%
Note to self: overcharge my corporate customers by four percent every time.
I'm waiting for the toilet bowl made from lacquered SCO invoices...
That way we can take a dump on SCO every day!
this is not offtopic. Three words: MAIL ORDER CATALOGS
I'm starting right now.
AC
I'm expecting something that could better be described as "a rupture in a submarine's hull at crush depth".
:)
"leak" indeed
Yeah, the problem is that since it's a state agency, at the pace you guys function, this conversation will take place about 9 years from now.
$600,000 is peanuts
Anybody want to hire me? I'll work for peanuts!
In other news, office products retailers across the USA noticed an overwhelming unpredicted demand for paper shredders.
SCO: The Linux kernel has millions of lines of infringing SCO code.
Torvalds: You're smoking crack.
SCO: Would you believe one million?
Torvalds: No.
SCO: Would you believe 80 lines?
Torvalds: Doubtful.
SCO: How about two variables with the same names?
In modern germany, Sco owes YOU money!
I'm pretty sure that SCO is going to be a great stock to hold onto. I'm hoping very much to get a job there. I keep checking their jobs page eagerly every day, but so far only the disappointing phrase "There are currently no job openings at SCO". Because so many top quality engineers are champing at the bit to work there, I will just have to be patient. I feel like a kid waiting outside a candy store that's about to open...
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
What timing! My SCO invoice showed up in my mailbox just about the same time I ran out of toilet paper!!
Thanks SCO! You saved my day!