SCOrched Earth

mm0mm writes "Just hours after we read Darl's open letter on copyrights, Groklaw has another breaking update on SCO up on their website. SCO's Reply Memorandum of Law in Support of its Motion to Compel Discovery is now available. (original document here) The memorandum requests court to order IBM, the defendant, to provide evidence and support their case against ....IBM. :D When I was young, it was the plaintiff who was responsible for preparing enough evidence to present to the court, but in Darl's world, with army of lawyers who will be given 20% of the proceeds from the settlement or of 'a sale of SCO during the pendancy of litigation', apparently rules are different." Lawrence Lessig has a great piece reviewing Darl's nonsensical letter.

Comments

Hmmmm

[Kulaid982]

Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?

Re:Hmmmm

[Amiga Lover]

Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?

wtf. that's dumb. I'm calling the police.

mind helping me dial 911?

Re:Hmmmm

[SoSueMe]

I'd like to see them find "Chapter 11".

Monkeys... trained monkeys....

[Asprin]

Check out this snippet from the footnotes at the end:

[1] Object or binary code is the code computers use and appears as a series of is and Os.

Someone please explain to SCO's attorneys that:
i != 1
and
O != 0

Don't they have ANYONE in their office who knows enough about computers to proofread this stuff?

I think I understand now...

[3Suns]

It seems that Darl & Co. have a very specific (and obviously very wrong) idea of what the GPL actually is. They seem to believe that Open Source advocates think the GPL applies to everything, just automatically. This is in accordance to their paranoid beliefs that Linux is actually SysV Unix that was "stolen" with the GPL. I can just imagine this happening in court:

IBM: "No, actually Mr. McBride, the GPL can only be applied by the copyright holder. Just like any other license."

Darl: "Umm, you mean... So the GPL... Hey, look over there!" *flees the country*

Re:Look at Note [1]

[slunk1]

it's appropriate i think, given that 'i' is an imaginary number. seems to fit right in with SCO's philosophy.

Re:Darl gets his ass kicked.

[mckniglj]

Darl getting his ass kicked?

Now there's something I pay $699 to see.

Re:Darl gets his ass kicked.

[PhuCknuT]

Darl getting his ass kicked?

Now there's something I pay $699 to see.

No, there's something I'd pay $699 to DO.

I Like Linus's Reply

[gowen]

"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."

-- Linus Torvalds

There's nothing wrong with SCO's request.

[siskbc]

Look, all SCO wants is the AIX and DYNIX source code. Oh, also linux. And I forgot Unix. That's right, and they want every version. What's that? Every nightly CVS update too? OK. Also, they would like IBM to print the source for each of these out, and highlight with a yellow pen the parts they stole. Also, if they'd just circle those parts with a red pen, and write the words "We stole this," that'd be greeeeeaaat.

And they should just, ah, hand that in with the TPS reports.

What's unreasonable about that?

Re:Darl gets his ass kicked.

[zero time ghost]

"Hello, this is Mr. McBride's office. Mr. McBride will fight you, but first he asks that you kick your own ass, in order to prove that Mr. McBride can kick you ass. After that, we'll schedule a time for Mr. McBride to kick your ass sometime in the year 2035."