SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More

shystershep writes "Apparently attacking one Unix-like OS isn't enough. According to Darl McBride, SCO has plans to target BSD. "The more yarn you pull out the more you see," according to McBride. They're a little preoccupied with the IBM litigation right now, though, so "we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year." Hmmm. I can't imagine why SCO executives feel that they need to hire bodyguards." How to get at the *BSDs? vireo writes "In this Newsforge story, we learn that Boies, Schiller & Flexner will directly attack the 1994 AT&T/BSD settlement." Read on below for another handful of updates on the giant SCO lawsuit frenzy.

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.'"

Comments

Re:bodyguards

[HalfStarted]

Totally off topic... but your sig... so... you are a pointer to a DreadLord object... does that something like a "yes man" or are you just an index finger?

OMG You are such a fucking geek!

[amarodeeps]

But I still love you, because you are like me! *sigh*

You know this SCO thing is sad when...

[tekiegreg]

People make jokes about SCO that are offtopic from the SCO story itself (in 2 pagedown scrollings I haven't seen anything relating to SCO vs. BSD), and are getting modded up, even to +5 funny. I take it pretty much everyone, even the evil MS developers (such as myself) are getting pretty annoyed by SCO (if that wasn't the understatement of my lifetime).

Re:how do you bite with a beak?

[LearnToSpell]

Like so.

Re:I wonder what the airspeed velocity...

[rootofevil]

right. and since they cant fly, they will be accelerating towards the ground.

Re:I wonder what the airspeed velocity...

[Ulven]

*grin*

Re:We get it already, SCO

[IM6100]

If Dean makes it to be the Democratic candidate in the mainstream election, he's going to be plowed under by the mainstream public of the United States.

The 2000 election was a very close one. So close that algore would have been elected if he had even won the electoral votes in his home state of Tennesee, whose people presumably know more about him than the average US citizen. It's completely unprecedented for an incumbent VP not get the 'favorite son' vote. Hell, even wobbly old Walter Mondale carried the Minnesota vote in his defeat when he faced Reagan.

No, Dean isn't gonna do it. The Democrats might as well nominate Sharpton as Dean.

It's amusing to hear one of the champions of the 'entitlements' programs for the hyphenated-Americans rant on about 'entitlements.' What a hoot.

Re:Finally an Answer!!

[Uma Thurman]

The more yarn you pull out the more you see

Quite unlike Darl's cock!

Re:*BSD is dying

[ebbomega]

Isn't Darwin BSD-compliant?

And OpenBSD has had support from a government or two because of its security, hasn't it?

BSD is far from dead. The only reason everybody thinks it's dead is because its hardware support isn't as expansive as, say linux. Well, so be it, it's not designed to run on anything, it's designed to run well.

My Internet!

[DarkManaX]

Since I, DarkManaX, am the sole proprietor of the Internet which you are illegally using (I don't need proof) you must either get off, or send $1 to me.

Re:What about the rest of SCO?

[black mariah]

Because, get this...

The lawyers get paid, NO MATTER WHAT! :D