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SCO Asks IBM To Make SCO's Case For It
acousticiris writes "According to an analysis of Friday's memorandum from SCO on Groklaw: 'If I had to characterize it in a brief sentence or two, the sentence would be that SCO tells the court, "How are we supposed to know what code IBM misappropriated? It's up to them to prove our case for us."...' It's also interesting to note that in Friday's memorandum, footnote 4, SCO uses Eric Raymond's Jargon File entry for FUD to take pot shots at IBM (footnote 4). Evidently, Eric was not pleased, according to the updated entry."
It seems somehow fitting that SCO would link to FUD in the jargon file, since the previous entry in the jargon file is "fuck me harder". After all, isn't that what SCO is doing to their shareholders?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
In a desperate attempt to prevent interested parties from reading their crap, SCO has apparently taken it upon themselves to slashdot Groklaw. Impressive.
If we can't read it we have to believe them!
SCO files a court document which includes (to provide support for their claim) a link to a web page controlled by someone they KNOW to hate them?
"Your Honor, we demand he change it back. We ummm didn't know website text can be changed"
The mind boggles...
Finkployd
Ya know, I just thought of something. These legal maneuverings by SCO are just SO absurd that the lawyers involved HAVE to know that. So I'm wondering - is SCO just being taken advantage of by unscrupulous lawyers, wanting to bilk stupid-ass SCO execs into thinking they can win anything?
yes, but you would then have to assume that SCO had a case
Get paid to code OSS
I have the same thought.
But I reminded of a Gary Larson's cartoon, where there are four panes one with a rattlesnake in the top left hand corner, a puffed-up puffer fish in the top right hand corner, a mad cat in the bottom left hand corner, and finally a wierdo wearing a trench coat, with a boot on his head, a child's
pool floaty thing around his middle and carrying a bazooka and the caption reads: "How Nature Says, Stay Away"
This I think applies to SCO.
[There is no text; only Zuul.]
Uhhh-huh-huh. He said infringer. Huh-huh-huh.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
I'm sure there are many geeks who would want to pillage SCO and distribute pieces McBribe's mutilated corpse to several industry bigwigs. The skull to IBM as a trophy and maybe the ass to Gates as a warning.
deliberately misquoted:
"I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some code comes with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. McBride?"
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Why does the term "possession is 99% of the law" come to mind for this case?
That's a good question. The original phrase is "posession is 9/10ths of the law."
[1] Actually the intergalactic equivalent of it
[2] Practically indistinguishable from mice, except for the fact that schmice and mice can't crossbreed for some reason.
Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
IANAL
EXACTLY! YOu AREN'T a lawyer. How can you possibly expect to know or understand any of the laws that you must live by? You can't. Just sit over there and do what we say.
Not that I really agree with you but this is poetical geeky if true.
Self referencing is a hallmark of geekdom. Like GNU = Gnu Not Unix
Help fight continental drift.
This is closer to asking your hostages for some bullets because you forgot yours.
All this pointless litigation is ...
Getting bloody annoying!
Make graduation from law school a hanging offence.
Even though hangins to good for the shyster scumbags!
AAAAAAGGGGG!!!!
(The red mist at the mention of the word SCO
made me post this damn comment in the wrong
thread once already.)
siggy played guitar
Dude, you forgot to gel back your hair after screaming "I AM ABOVE THE LAW!" Oh, and good luck on that Chewbacca Defense :P
Join the TWIT army now!
wow you can get +5 informative just for reposting the information found at one of the links in the story. I wonder how many points you get for actually saying something informative?!
SCO sells software?
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
"He appropritated [sic] public property for his own profit."
Yup. Because, you know, he's gotten so rich from that Jargon file.
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prophetic, even...
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SCO linked to a jargon file entry that links back to them. I can hear the death of webspiders recursing infinitely until they die they die the "lack o memory" death
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