OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense

geoff313 writes " For all of you who might be worried about what financial consequences Linus Torvalds might have to endure as a result of being subpoenaed by SCO, fear not: the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) will pay for its law firm to represent him. the OSDL, who are Torvalds' employer, will announce on Friday that the "OSDL has agreed to fund legal representation for Torvalds and any other employees of the lab who may become involved in the litigation." Just in case you didn't you didn't know, the OSDL is funded by a variety of corporations including (but not limitied to) IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Cisco, Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Nokia. "

Comments

Bon Appetite!

[corebreech]

McBride is what is known in the poker world as a fish.

Which is to SCO's great misfortune because penguins literally eat fish for breakfast.

And Torvalds is the biggest, baddest penguin out there. One might even call him The Omega Penguin. The king of all penguins, indeed, of all penguin-kind. Their lord. The single template from which all other penguins were wrought.

I'm just sorry they're not selling tickets for this one.

Fudning sources

[bluelip]

>>>Just in case you didn't you didn't know, the OSDL is funded by a variety of corporations including (but not limitied to) IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Cisco, Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Nokia. "

Just in case that was someone hiding beneath a rock, SCO is funded by Microsoft.

I can see it now

[KU_Fletch]

I've got good money on SCO suing OSDL within the next week for "blatant copyright violations and big meanie stupid poo faces"

Slick move, SCO

[cybermace5]

So, they try to pinch Linux where it hurts by going after the "little punks" who made it. I mean, what could some passive, nerdy, computer programmers have as a possible means of defense?

And so now, SCO stands in the middle of a jungle clearing, waving a stick and raving madly at the 800-pound gorilla of IBM. Suddenly, a rustle from the brush and SCO turns around to see a whole pack of 800-pound gorillas, all staring with steely eyes....

Re:Slick move, SCO

[advocate_one]

It's not a whole pack of 800lb Gorillas... it's worse... a flock of attack penguins backed with some loose Gnus...

Re:Slick move, SCO

[Haeleth]

it's worse... a flock of attack penguins backed with some loose Gnus...

I can see the headlines now: BAD GNUS FOR SCO

Anti-SCO License

[frostfreek]

I would like to know if the OSDL will pay to have their lawyers develop a version of a GPL that forbids downloading/use/repackaging of a software package by any computer that has ever had a SCO OS within 1km of it.
That's just about what I want for my next Open Source software release.

Re:Anti-SCO License

[Skweetis]

Please don't do this. My favorite computer has an old copy of SCO Unix within a few feet of it. Granted, the install tape is actually under one of the legs of a wobbly desk, but it works really well for that, and I don't want to have to replace it and my computer.

Re:What have we learned today, class?

[Aliencow]

Seeing the clothe they wear, they probably play at the $20,000 tables!

Re:Community would have supported a defense fund

[Polly_was_a_cracker]

You mean who is going to defend SCO from Richard Stallman..
Even though they asked for it... This is like going trout fishing and catching a shark that eats your wife.

Re:Funding sources

[sulli]

they're called the Editors.

Linus is defending SCO

[shoppa]

What's the deal with the article title?

OSDL Pays for Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense

I'd be very surprised if Linus was going to defend SCO here. Although obviously SCO thought that it would be advantageous to pump him for *something*, I dunno what.

Linus's Theme Song

[Foofoobar]

I hope when Linus enters they either play the Ride of The Valkyries or Darth Vaders theme song so that SCO gets the full effect of the wrath they bring upon themselves.

Re:Motion to compel disovery /BRILLIANT

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

IBM cited a Judge who ruled in a 2001 securities case that fraud allegations "should not be a pretext for the discovery of unknown wrongs". That Judge, sharp-eyed posters of Groklaw have spotted, is the same Hon. Dale A Kimball who will hear the Motion to Strike Affirmative Defenses, to which the filing is addressed.

Your honor, we have heard the courts say that "the fishing idea" is wrong and can not be done. What a brilliant point, excuse me...
Your honor (nice robe!) I had no idea you PERSONALLY said that. Absolutely amazing, poetic so Jeffersonian.
(turning to look at McBride, sticks tongue out and issues official IBM rasberry)

Re:Your spelling error

[BubbaTheBarbarian]

Dang, forgot to check my grammer...oh deer....

Re:Do you need a lawyer?

[WhiteWolf666]

Microsoft has the most money?

Nonsense---you forget who they are fighting.

Microsoft is a 400 pound gorilla.

IBM is a 12-ton space monster that shoots laser beams out of its eyes.

IBM is a FAR bigger company, with a MUCH more experienced legal team.

And Microsoft isn't fighting IBM directly, they are doing it (if at all) through a proxy.

SCO is more like a 75-pound hyena. Mean bite, makes a lot of noise.

But IBM is scary. Really, really scary.

Quiet scary, you know? Creeping-up-and-splattering-you in one move scary.