Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target?

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.

Comments

Coincidence?

[Idou]

Didn't MS try to BUY google but google refused? Then MS said that they would compete with google.

I guess we are seeing how MS intends to compete with google . . .

Re:So what?

[zero time ghost]

"If you guys would just let them slowly drain their money trying to pay lawyers to face off against blue chip companies like IBM, they'd slowly die off. But by giving them attention, they can stay alive. "

I disagree. If Slashdot and other sites weren't openly critical of SCO, there would still be a number of 'analysts' like Rob Enderle who continue to spin SCO's BS into gold.

This issue won't die as long as Microsoft and Sun are paying millions of dollars for...um..."licenses."

Why is this news?

[Prometheus_NG]

I am amazed that Slashdot continues to take the bait on this stuff. Who has SCO sued? IBM, over a specific contract dispute. Since the exact contracts are not available for public inspection we can not know what whether SCO actually has a leg to stand on.

Sure SCO has made all kinds of wild claims in public and there has been even more uninformed speculation.

But they have not actually done anything else.

They have not presented their "invoices" for Linux licenses.

They have not made any specific copyright claims of anybody.

They have not demanded that any of the kernel archives be taken down.

They have not done anything but generate a lot of smoke.

Untill SCO actually puts up, there is no news here. If they actually sued somebody. If they actually made some specific copyright claims. If they actually did anything besides make noise, then that would be a newsworthy item.

This tends to prove Microsoft is behind it all:

[Progman3K]

Funny how everyone that SCO goes after is a group that frustrated Microsoft...

Microsoft is trying to raise a zombie army to attack its opponents so that investors won`t perceive MS as being dishonest.

Don't be surprised if more shell companies either get bought up or formed and have the single goal of attacking Microsoft's "enemies".

And the side bonus is MS being able to say "See? We're not the only ones who think Linux/Google/Whatever is bad!"

Another great bonus is that if any of these entities has to pay for its transgressions by being forced out of business by law or some such, Microsoft can just stand back and laugh that the repriesal didn't touch them.

Re:self-fulfilling prophecies?

[Steve Franklin]

"Not if we can slashdot the hell out of those sites!..."

Why do you guys always think small potatoes?

"The idea behind the suit is obviously to make all major Linux users tractable and make them reach for their checkbooks."

Absolutely. Everybody on that short list and everyone else within range of these cretins should get together, pull out their checkbooks, and sue the bejesus out of SCO. Charge them with extortion and anything else their smartest lawyers can think of. SCO wants to live by lawsuits, let them die by lawsuits. What do you think the Wall Street analysts will think when they find out a hundred companies big and small have gotten together and started the process toward nailing these bastards to the wall? Can you say "penny stock"? Can you say "dead on arrival"?