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SGI Code Changes Not Enough, Says SCO
yeremein writes "According to this vnunet.com article, SCO's code changes Update: 10/04 20:51 GMT by T : (This should read "SGI's" rather than "SCO's.") removing arguably System-V-related code from SGI's Linux submissions is 'not enough.' According to Blake Stowell of SCO,
'Making minor amendments to its XFS file system doesn't cure the breach. SGI must do more as outlined [in the August letter] to cure all of their breaches.' But later on in the article, we learn what was outlined in the August letter:
'We don't believe that SGI has taken all of the steps necessary to cure all of the breaches, and in fact in our letter to them, we state "SGI's breaches of these agreements cannot be cured."' So SCO essentially told SGI, 'You're in violation of our contract and unless you remedy the violations, we'll pull your UNIX license. Oh, BTW, you can't remedy the violations.' This looks to me like the clearest example yet of how SCO is acting in bad faith." Read on below for another snippet of SCO strangeness.
An anonymous reader writes "As many are aware, SCO has sought (and got) a 4 month extension to its IBM lawsuit. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: 'SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said Tuesday that he understood the extension is being sought "for the purpose of gaining documents from IBM related to the patents they claim. . . . Some of the patents aren't even filed with the U.S. Patent Office, as far as we can learn."' I thought this was worth looking at, and quickly found that the patents in question are 4,814,746, 4,821,211, 4,953,209, and 5,805,785 - which can be found by typing in their numbers in this USPTO form."
Oh, you mean the Reaper when he picks up Darl McBride.
Yeah, I am putting my bets on him too.
Blah blah, we need more media exposure to pump our stocks, blah blah, nothing you do will ever clean the Linux kernel of our code because we ARE UNIX, blah, blah, looking forward to federal slam me in the ass prison, blah, blah, insert mindless dribble here.
And if you're reading this, you owe us money.
Darling McSly
Just like you can own code you never wrote, bought or saw.
SCO want's SGI to remove the entire XFS system code and even that may not be enough for SCO since everthing that has even the most remote connection to UNIX is a dervztive. I have a UNIX Primer book in the bookshelf next to me so this message is probably a UNIX derivative and anyone who reads it will need to pay a licensing fee to SCO.
The only company with enough bathtubs to supply the worldwide demand for crack. Also, the only company with an actual crack team of lawyers. How much longer till the DEA shuts them down?
You're running a scam
Any AC can see that
Go back to Utah
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You have to sit down too, so I win? I don't get it. A poor example it is, which cannot be understood. For shame.
What version are they running? maybe there is a bug!
to the point where i know more about SCO than my sister.
Is that supposed to be impressive? Is your sister some kind of SCO expert or something?
Stupid dangling modifier.
Well, first they aren't claiming 3B in lost sales. They are claiming 1B in damages, which in federal court automaticaly gets trippled to 3B.
Damages are not only lost past and future sales, but can include loss of reputation (ha!), contractural damages, hair loss, and basically anything you care to include.
That said, I doubt the SCO execs know how many 0's there are in a billion.
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
[O]ne should not name the devil
I've heard that, if you say "Litigious Darl" three times in a dark room in front of a mirror, a mysterious check will be drawn onto your bank account. Wooooo.....
Option-Shift-K.
> Rational? It doesn't matter what we think. In the end, it will come down to an old man in a black robe.
Emperor Palpatine?
> It seems that SCO has learned a thing or two from their Redmond overlards.
Overlards? I for one welcome our new pig masters....Hmmmmm bacon.;-)
Results for google search:
"linux is full of crap".......... 0 hits
"apple is full of crap"......... 0 hits
"microsoft is full of crap".... 9 hits
"toilet is full of crap".......... 2 hits
"SCO is full of crap".......... 92 hits!
So it's official, SCO is 46 times more full of crap crap than a toilets are.
Dear Mr. Darl McBride,
Your position: "If there is even a single line of code copied from SysV to Linux via SGI, SCO is entitled to billions of dollars from SGI. Furthermore, IBM must also pay billions of dollars even though they did no copying. Finally, those who used this code in good faith must pay a substantial run-time only licensing fee to SCO even after the code is completely removed."
My position: "You're the fucking moron."
I think the entire situation has reached the point of useless posturing, where no matter what the people who what the hell they're talking about, SCO will always have a glib answer that doesn't make any sense.
What they are claiming to own glib, which they definitly didn't write, now?