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Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target?

Posted by timothy on from the many-cpus-to-extort-royalties-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Well, Darl and co. may have decided which company to sue next: Google. Sources say Google will be sued for not paying their Linux taxes. The story quotes 'Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to hate more than Microsoft.'" This is all speculation until such a suit is filed, though.

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  1. I wonder by 7x7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how you can sue someone for violating your IP rights without legal backing saying your own that IP in the first place.

    Is it legal to send a big F-U in response?

  2. When speculation becomes news by pixelgeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes.

    An unnamed source who claims to know this?

    Could this article be more speculative? How does something like this even get considered news?

  3. Re:Coincidence? by Ryosen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't so far fetched... Remember that Microsoft made a sizeable investment in SCO a little while back. With a server farm the size of Google's, this could cause considerable harm to their operations. Consider what an injuction against Google during litigation might do. If they can't use their servers, they're out of business.

    My question is this, tho: Whatever happened to barratry? In particular, what of the laws regarding making threat of litigation and not following through?

    I think Google should call their bluff and get this taken care of once and for all. However, the threat of a lawsuit, and even filing one, is not much to get concerned over. Google probably gets threats all of the time (see: Scientology and Xenu).

    Now, a verdict, on the other hand....

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    Ryosen
    One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
  4. This will cause Google big IPO problems by Animats · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This could reduce Google's valuation for their IPO. Google will have to put "pending litigation" with a big dollar value in their prospectus. This affects the valuation. Perhaps by billions.

    What an extortion racket.

    On Monday, December 5, the discovery motions in the IBM/SCO case go before the judge. That's the first "put up or shut up" event in the case.