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ACCC Asks SCO To Explain Themselves
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) governmental organization has issued a request to SCO to provide information regarding complaints filed with it, according to The Age. This deals with issues regarding SCO's IP claims, and statements regarding the need for commercial Linux users to obtain a Unix licence. With any luck, that'll be Slashdot's daily dose of SCO news..."
> With any luck, that'll be Slashdot's daily dose of SCO news...
No, with any luck there will be another story today about the SEC suspending trading of SCOX and the FBI carting Canopy Group's board and execs off to jail.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
This is one small step for mankind, and hopefully one giant leap into the inferno for SCO.
Let's see how many /.-isms I can throw into a single sentence:
The SCOmbag behind this fiaSCO, $CO is SCOspiciously silent when people say, "show me the SCOurce"!
How's that? What did I miss?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Well you see Mr. Crocodile Hunter, Sir, the problem
all started when developers started using the
following snippets of code:
main()
{alarm(10);sleep(5);write(1," something",12);exit(0);}
As you can clearly see, the way () is used, is an
obviously blatant rip-off of the way our patents
are written. Sure there are open source zealots
and we love them all, but realistically speaking
Mr. Dundee your honor, your aboriginee, we feel
it is unfair for anyone to use main() without a
brand new SCO license.
Thank you your boomerang tossing mate.
MoFscker
damn... my kingdom for a browser spellchecker...
(actually my kingdom is only a rental property and a cat, but if anyone wants the cat they are welcome to him in exchange for a spell checker)
In my next incarnation, I hope to come back as a code monkey.
Huh what kind of a strange form of government is this. Whoever heard of a govt telling a software company what to do.
War is necrophilia.
sco cant explain...sco cant sell in oz... simple :-)
I wonder how badly it will hurt them to lose their customer in Australia, anyway...
Like what I said? You might like my music
The article is from down under, therefore it must be mirrored upside-down.
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They had better just watch it. If they really get into the way of an American Corporation collecting from Australians, then they will all end up before an US tribunal (you know the drill, no street clothes, no spitting, no lawyers). Who do they think they are?
With any luck, that'll be Slashdot's daily dose of SCO news...
Accompanying any news that might pose a threat to share price, we can expect even more outrageous claims from SCO today in response.
The SCO Group ANZ seem to be pretty reasonable compared to D'ohl, but I really do hope they get shut down in Oz, or at least fined into submission. It might lead the producers of some of the vertical market apps that I occasionally bandage up to port their product to a UNIX platform in which gormlessness features less strikingly.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Ahh, Mr. McBride... Your "Anonymous Coward" facade isn't fooling any of us.
Ah, the irony. The mods mod down someone praising them. If logic applies to them, this should get me some karma: MODS SUCK DIE MODS DIE. There, I insulted them. If praising them gets modded down, it's karma rtime!!!