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ACCC Asks SCO To Explain Themselves

Posted by simoniker on from the blimey dept.

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..."

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  1. With any luck... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > 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.

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    1. Re:With any luck... by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny
      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
      no... that wouldn't just be "any" luck... that would be poetic justice at its finest.
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    2. Re:With any luck... by Disevidence · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No the ACCC doesn't understand whats going on, thats why they are asking SCO for a please explain. A Victorian group has complained about it, and ACCC are trying to find the facts from both sides.

      But its always good to see our ACCC responding to complaints in the right way, by finding out the facts. Hopefully this all pans out well for Aussie Linux Users.

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  2. SCO-isms by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
  3. Re:yeah, right by zekt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They actually may have to, as the claim is that their attempt to get licences amounts to extortion. If the ACCC sees this as a case of extortion they may be asked to show proof or face court. The Australian Competition and Comsumer Comission actually has some teeth. This may actually be an inetresting one to keep an eye on.

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  4. Re:Now there's a surprise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, the ACCC tends to really kick arse. For instance, they just told Qantas they couldn't merge with Air New Zealand (thank god... look what Air NZ did to Ansett). If you breach the Trade Practices Act, they don't ask you to stop (or cry)... they prosecute.

    Personally, I think the delay with the SCO issue has been that it's just not as important as some of the other major cases they have been dealing with lately (i.e. Pan Pharmacueticals and the ever popular kicking the sh*t out of Telstra). Now that the guns are turned on SCO, I suspect that SCO is in for an interesting time indeed.

    For instance, when I lodged my complaint with the ACCC, the person who answered the phone already knew all about the issue. This implies that lots of complaints were lodged and that the ACCC has a large body of evidence already.

    It's popcorn time...

  5. Companies are noticing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work for dell in the servers division and we get a monthly newsletter. When the SCO news broke, the blurb was something like "IBM got sued by sco", anything bad for IBM is good for us
    In Later weeks it was more like "they are threatening us" but Redhat will fight for us, we need not worry
    This weeks newsletter is the best. It actually uses the word FUD against sco, also pretty much rooting for IBM.The blurb was something like, IBM has a great amount of IP and SCO stands no chance. We wont indemnify customers yet, but we are thinking about it.
    It looks like old enemies are being pushed to the same side of the table, united against a common enemy.