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SCO Madness Reigns Supreme

Posted by timothy on from the world's-funniest-joke dept.

Sri Lumpa writes "It will come as little surprise for those of you that followed the SCO stories and read their latest filing that an IP attorney, Douglas Steele, Esq., thinks that 'SCO is trying to get the judge to declare all works released under the GPL for the last 3 years put into the public domain.' Meanwhile, more lawyers give their opinions, with Eben Moglen saying 'It's just rubbish,' while another says of SCO's defense: 'From the outside, it appears so bizarre and so ridiculous that I fear their argument is being misstated,' while Blake Stowell of SCO believes Congress has drawn a boundary between proprietary and open source and still insists that IBM should indemnify its Linux users while refusing to indemnify SCO's Samba users against a potential MS lawsuit. More links to related news stories continue to appear in the comment section of the first link, thanks to the Groklaw readers." Read on for another handful of updates in SCO vs. The World.

Roblimo knows good, honest Constitutional argumentation when he sees it, and over on NewsForge amplifies SCO's claims that the GPL is unconstitutional.

Dopey Panda writes "Looks like SCO has become just a bit worried about their liabilities for distributing the Linux kernel. Starting November 1 you will have to be a registered SCO customer to be able to access their FTP site. So that leaves just a couple days for you to download your own genuine SCO-approved GPL code!"

And perhaps today's most interesting SCO submission: 1HandClapping writes "In alwayson-network.com, Mark F. Radcliffe (HIAL) writes about a little-reported aspect of the SCO vs IBM case: 'Novell, as part of its sale of the UNIX licenses to SCO, retained the right to require SCO to "amend, supplement, modify or waive any right" under the license agreements (and if SCO did not comply, Novell could exercise those rights itself on SCO's behalf). At IBM's request, Novell employed this right and demanded that SCO waive IBM's purported violations. When SCO did not do so, Novell exercised its right to waive the violations on SCO's behalf. Basically, this defense destroys the core of the SCO case: IBM's violation of its UNIX license with SCO.'"

11 of 607 comments (clear)

  1. SCO Troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wheres the SCO Troll?
    I haven't been called a teabagger today.

  2. fark.com down?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone know what is wrong with fark.com today?

    Can one of you please fix it, thanks.

    1. Re:fark.com down?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Does anyone know what is wrong with fark.com today?
      Yes, it's a shitty site filled with morons.
  3. DEBIAN FUCKING SUCKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. New SCO Icon Required here on Slashdot.. by DoctorScooby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Darl McBride with a penis for a head.

  5. Re:Fr0st P1st! by Avada+Kedavra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The face of evil.

  6. FUCKING TEABAGGER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There.

    Feel better now?

  7. Re:To Timothy *confused* by FrankoBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course I do. It's just that he is so blatantly contradicting himself by arranging the stories the way he did here, from whatever pespective one might use, it's not even funny.

    --

    United States of America, good ol' backers of world peace.
  8. SCO feedback form by bleakcabal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It seems that SCO is asking for feedback on SCO. I have sent them a short polite and respectful message which none the less express my views on the SCO. http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/index.html

  9. Re:Why the #$%# . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do you expect from GNU hippies? It's not like they can get laid.

  10. Re:Noorda's revenge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice way to WASTE MY FUCKING TIME!

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa