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SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More
osullish writes "The Financial Times reports that SCO is indicating it will sue an as-yet un-named Linux-using corporation within the next 90 days. Also mentioned in the article is possible action against Novell, which recently purchased Ximian and SUSE Linux."
Iaitos points to this rather stiffly-worded notice from Novell (on their site) regarding the non-compete agreement SCO claims would taint Novell's acquisition of SUSE:
PROVO, Utah Nov. 18, 2003: Novell has seen the November 18 InfoWorld article in which SCO CEO Darl McBride refers to a supposed non-compete agreement between Novell and SCO. Mr. McBride's characterization of the agreements between Novell and SCO is inaccurate. There is no non-compete provision in those contracts, and the pending acquisition of SUSE LINUX does not violate any agreement between Novell and SCO.Novell has received no formal communication from SCO on this particular issue. Novell understands its rights under the contracts very well, and will respond in due course should SCO choose to formally pursue this issue."
slavitos points to a ZDNet article covering the same ground, writing: "A characteristic SCO twist in the story: "McBride added that lawsuits likely will be preceded and possibly prevented by communications offering businesses an opportunity to get right with SCO. "We'll be communicating with users what our expectations are," he said.". Oh, that's helpful, Darl - and no, we didn't really expect you to be any more specific."
If your lips aren't yet too tired, ansak writes "PJ has done it again -- okay, "co-ordinated it" would be the better phrase. The transcript of SCOG's conference call is now available (and in danger of being slashdotted without slashdot's help, even!).
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Another legal theory being thrown about is that SCO's lawsuit (the one against IBM, that is) all leads back to Sequent. Petrol writes "The Inquirer has a story about SCO's action against IBM. 'Sources close to the action describe a trail of code that might well be the target of SCO's ire against IBM and the Linux community.'"
...of an unladen SCO bodyguard is?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
"The more yarn you pull out the more you see," according to McBride.
Yup... Paranoia's like that.
We *know* you want to show everybody how big a pain in the ass you are and that someone should just buy you out. It's just not going to happen.
I'm also starting to hope that Boies will share the cell...
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
Darl McBride now claims ownership of the new Finder in Panther, and Final Cut Pro.
Darl is like a blind man on the street, swinging a bat, hoping someone will pay him to stop. Hopefully, the cops will get him before he does any real damage.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
"However, there are some elements who have an almost religious zealousness about Linux," he [Darl McBride] added. "In some ways, that can be scary for anyone opposing their positions."
As if SCO's position isn't religious zealotry to the max!
Then there's sanity on the other side:
"I just don't buy it," said Bruce Perens, a Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux developer and open source advocate. " This is just an effort to discredit the open-source community.
"If there were real threats, the police would be there instead of husky fellows with radio tubes in their heads," he said.
Infuriate left and right
...because no way does SCO still exist in the second half.
Isn't it clear why? Linux peguin looks quite friendly and isn't harmful at all, BSD daemon on the other hand...
The IT section color scheme sucks.
I thought BSD was dying. I could swear I read that somewhere...
GMD
watch this
I hear that SCO has found gratuitous use of the letters S, C, and O in BSD source code! Obviously there must be payment rendered!
Welcome to the club. Glad to have you aboard.
Where shall we meet to plan the complete and utter extermination of SCO?
Sincerely,
Tux
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You're forgetting that they live in Utah. They've probably already got a years supply of computers, power and water stored up.
I found this about 20 minutes ago on news.google.com. My favorite Darl quote: "First it's not our customers. I would say we're suing end users. There are only two industries who use the term 'users,' computers and drugs. Not sure if there's a connection there". So now we're all communist junkies.
more like drugs.
whats a good CEO/addict reference without a penny arcade link? it looks like daryl and mark are on the same batch of smack too.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Bodyguards... please.
Anyone who would get mad enough to threaten them probably barely has the strength to lift a pie to heft at them.
Bill Gates is still alive, after all.
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
They keep on multiplying, getting in the way and serving no apparent purpose.
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BSD might have stolen something from SCO, after all, it is dying.
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"I have a red sign on my door. It says "If this sign is blue, you're going too fast.""
dear God, I about sprayed soda all over my monitor when I read that.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
The may sue, even win, but they'll never make *me* pay for MS software!
The only thing more dangerous than a file named -rf is renaming it -rf\ /
And BSD is still techinically property of the Regents of the University of California.
looks like a job for the governator.
"The number of Unix installations has grown to ten, with more expected." (Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd ed.; june 1972)
lawyer farm in upstate NY where they breed them. Their typical yearly output in farm-fresh, free-range lawyers is 3 times the output of all of the "Law Schools" put together. And IBM raises them organically, not pumping them full of antibiotics and growth hormones like Hardvard, Yale, Columbia and such.
You're assuming SCO are going after one of the parties involved - maybe they're planning on suing the judge for reaching the wrong decision, or AT&T's lawyers for handling the case badly?
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The big worry will be what happens when sco does give up the ghost. Theres alot of people that depend on the software to run their businesses. They had nothing to do with the lawsuit and will be hurt when the message does at last get to the brain of the beast.
Well, judging by how much code Linux has stolen from SCO, it shouldn't be hard for them to switch.
it'd be interesting to see ATT get involved.
if IBM is the 800 lb gorilla that you don't pick a fight with then ATT is the demon you hope you never even *see* let alone start poking with a stick.
now the market is starting to turn on them as well...
the end is near SCO
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Having used various *BSDs for years now, I'm always amazed at how well the Linux emulation works. Today, the *BSDs have added the ability to emulate Linux lawsuits. This completely blows away any type of emulation done on any other system, ever. ;^)
"Hey Darl, what do you want to do tonight?"
"Same thing we do every night, try to take over the world!"
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It's OK, they had Subway for lunch.
Subway, good so you don't always have to be.
Headline: Cat chases tail...
In a strange turnabout SCO sues itself for using Linux http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=sco.com
Fourth quarter earnings will show a revenue of 1 billion dollars from litigation of company using Linux and a writeoff of 1 billion dollars worth of shares.
When shit hits the fan get some of these https://youtu.be/pY-GncsZ-UE
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Those FOOLS
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." and "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." but only slightly less well known is "Never get into a legal battle with a University when IP involved!"
bwahhaahahah!!
"Computers will never truly be free until the last windows user is strangled with the entrails of the last mac user."
You start seeing the rear window stickers ala the chevy boy pissing on the ford trademark, redone to Tux pissing on SCO?
Darl has taken trolldom to a higher level. Slashdot trolls can only stand agape and marvel at his trollish magnificence, hoping that one day they'll be 1/10th the troll he is.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Surely BSD will be dead by then anyway.
Anyone see SCO as the Centauri, and Microsoft lurking in the back as the Shadows?
:)
That big alliance forming of everybody vs. SCO seems to add up too. And IBM playing the Vorlons, the silent old powerful beings.
Ok, so it's not a very original theory... but it got a lot funnier as a B5 conspiracy theory
Kjella
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Yeah, it almost certainly includes OSX, since it includes a lot of BSD.
What I've been thinking is: I'm running linux and OSX at home. I need to revive one of those old machines down in the basement and get, say, FreeBSD running on it. Then I'll be in the line of fire for all of SCO's attacks.
Or maybe I'm missing something? What else should I have running?
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Seriously, if the guys who ran Enron into the ground (and destroyed thousands of people's plans for the future) haven't been whacked yet, nobody's going to hit a SCO exec
Unless of course, SCO sues Apple. Then some Apple Zealot is bound to go on a SCO rampage.
PS I'm an Apple Zealot
I thought that OSX meant OSX iS uniX. ;-)
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