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SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License
larry2k writes "PR newswire has an open letter from SCO to IBM.
From the letter: 'SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case.'" The release is also carried by NewsForge. Among other things, SCO says "By so strongly defending the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification for its customers."
Doesn't supplant mean "replace"? That's not what the GPL does.
And if you're wondering why you have not received an invoice from SCO for any Linux-based OS you may be running, benploni writes "From Groklaw: In this Detroit News story Blake Stowell explains why no one has received an invoice: 'SCO in August said Linux users could avoid lawsuits by paying a one-time fee of $699. The fee will rise to $1,399 on Oct. 15. Since the response to its appeal was adequate, SCO didn't send bills to thousands of Linux users, company spokesman Blake Stowell said.' [emphasis added]. We all knew there was no way they'd risk actually sending out invoices, and here's the proof."
Hey, look on the bright side. At least SCO is going after people bigger than they are instead of 12-year old girls.
It's only a matter of time before IBM lawyers destroy SCO. Just sit back, relax and watch SCO lawyers and IBM/SGI/other lawyers get into some serious battle. When it's over, SCO won't exist anymore and slashdot will run out of topics.
Because (most) people are rabidly stupid.
Since the response to its appeal was adequate, SCO didn't send bills to thousands of Linux users, company spokesman Blake Stowell said.'
Too bad - I'd love to hang up such an (otherwise ignored) invoice here in my office. SCO can kiss my ass in Macy's window during a One Day Sale.
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
SCO is entitled to $699 for every 16 CPU's and 4 modules of ram machine running the linux operating system. If you type 'hostid' at the prompt, it will serialize your computer machine. Copy the output, along with your name, address, phone number, social security number, and email address, and email it to sales@sco.com.
I will revoke SCO's UNIX license effective October 3rd, 2003.
Hey, I have as much legal right to do it to them as they do!
It's clear that Darl has no intellect left and therefore no intellectual property, therefore his claim to intellectual property is null and void.
Master plan : Sue anybody with a 3 letter acronym.
Lookout PBS, you're next.
What's the address? I figure that sending them a photocopy of my ass will be worth more than their "license" will be.
At the very least, it'll be more entertaining. Heh.
Sounds like it's going to be a cheezy article.
Yesterday Mattel announced a special version of Linux would be powering its upcoming line of Barbie B-Book laptops for little girls, and also said it would indemnify all of its customers against possible legal action from SCO.
The way I see it, an attack on one member of the Open Source community is an attack on all of us. This is like the director (?producer, someone else) of Gigli getting quoted as saying "I've seen worse movies [than Gigli]" They must really believe this. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! Could you please translate this for those of us that smoke crack?
Whatever happened to the co-existence theory
I think it incorporated and was viable for a while, but was bought out by the we-have-more-money-than-you-ever-dreamed-of theory.
Not that I do that. No. I don't sit there constantly refreshing the slashdot homepage.
Must...Resist...Temptation....
This just in . . .
SCO flings poo. Film at 11.
BREAKING NEWS
The author of this post has just been issued a lawsuit by SCO. Apparently, SCO has claimed copyright to the word "poo." "Shit," "crap," and "dung" appear to be next on SCO's list.
foo!
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"Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so."-Lawrence Lessig
It would probably help SCO's case if Darl was a 12 year old girl.
But there seems to be so many of them, and I haven't found oneof them interesting.
But.. But... [trembling lower lip]
Quit whining. The answer is propsed every single freaking time that we have had a SCO story since at least the third such story:
Go to your preferences, and tell Slashdot not to show you any more Caldera stories.
And if you so hate SCO stories, why are you continuing to post in one?? Shut up, filter the topic, and sod off. Some us of actually do like reading these stories, and we are tired of reading crap from people like you. It's a shame we can't just check a little box (like you're apparently too lazy to do) to make you go away.
The creativity of Darl hath no end, having come full-circle past the point of being amusing it is now becoming inspirational !!
Had Darl and Co. applied all this effort and creative thinking toward the improvement of OpenServer and Caldera Linux they might have had a customer base and a little revenue these days..
Somehow their reputation has always been a ball and chain - I remember someone on the net posted (around 1995) in a newsgroup - "I'd rather have my spinal cord pulled out through my asshole than have to do system administration on SCO Unix."
I for one look forward to serving our new SCO overlords, and toiling in their silicone mines!
...watching two senior citizens pummel each other with legacy computer equipment; one using a Commodore PET computer and the other a Trash-80...
Then again, people do buy those *Bum Fights* DVDs...
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
Hanlon's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
It's only funny because it's true.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I've decided that Darl McBride is pulling the most elaborate corporate prank ever conceived. I have found no other rational explanation -- and I refuse to believe the only other rational alternative (that the man is insane).
-Thomas
SCO has also revoked your birthday.
If anyone wants to attend the SCO technology showcase city-to-city tour, you can register at: http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/oct2003/
Of course you wouldn't want to be disruptive or critical of this fine company.
Darl's mother must be awful proud of her son for identifying all those communists out there working on open source code. So all you degenerates, put down your keyboards and go see what SCO is all about and let Darl buy you a couple of meals.
That's very strong performance. You'd be a fool to sell it short now, since it's guaranteed to go up more.
A stock on the way up will always go up more, huh? Thanks...that' just about clears up "stock market bubble" for me.
guess the t(o)(o) many (o)(o) 's was some sort of Freudian slip
Help fight continental drift.
After suing his own employees, and their children,
being that the children were derivatives of the
employees, and suing his own lawyers and the
president of the US, McBride now sues himself in
a slander lawsuit, claming that all the stupid
things he said made him look bad. He has joined
to the lawsuit: his mother-for having him, SCO- for
hiring him, GOD-for making a world for him to live,
and the air he breathes, and which transmits his
words to other ears.
He says he is now reading the bible, and if he can
find anyone else responsible there, they will be
added to the suit.
when asked if he would sue satan, he states he
could not because of a pre-existing arrangment.
Hahah that was hilarious!
... If you don't recall that scene, this will make no sense - but I trust most of us have seen this movie a few times ;)
When I was reading all the lists of Canopy's great accomplishments, in my head the voice I used was from Back to the Future 2 where Marty comes upon Biff's huge hotel and there is a video playing about all the amazing and great things Biff had done for the country. For some reason that voice just fit in perfectly
I gather it's more like a lemming stampede than a mass suicide. The ones at the edge get shoved off by the guys behind--who can't see the edge because there are lemmings in front of them.
Hey, I agree with you, and I'm behind you all the way. Whoa, dude, watch that first step! Ooh, bummer. :)
Get it here.