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SCO Code to be Protected in Closed Court
An anonymous reader writes "SCO public relations director Blake Stowell today said that the company had secured permission to present the code alleged to have found its way into Linux to a closed court. Once again SCO is refusing to tell Linux users just what code they claim is infringing on their IP rights, while still threatening to sue corporations running Linux."
This protects the court, because if the code itself became part of the court records, SCO would have to sue the court itself for violation of SCO intellectual property.
"We find this Court to be in contempt of SCO!!!"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I'm pretty sure SCO and the US Federal courts will be relieved to know where "liquilpele" stands on the subject. I, for one, am relieved to hear your opinion does not clash with the slashdot concensus.
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Well if they'd released it into Open Court they'd have had to sue the US Judicial System, so maybe the Judges just got scared ?
I can imagine it now
Darl McBride : "By forcing our code to be shown in open court the US Judicial system has infringed on our copyright and we demand a royalty from every sentence now uttered in court which is a derivative of ours... which is all of them"
Next week SCO sue the Department of Defense for using SCO infringing software in the conquest of Iraq.... and demand Iraq as payment.
Darl McBride leader of Iraq...
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
You mustn't use Linux then ... :)
codegolf.com - smaller *is* better.
The secrecy comes from the fact that Darl McBride claims to have drawn Tux when he was a small child. The picture is so embarressing that he does not want anyone to see it.
We can't just open this up to the public. The minute we open it up we have in fact opened it up to the public
Thank you for your brilliant insight!
/*
String Copy PLUS(tm)
(c) AT&T,SCO
*/
char *sppy(const char *s2) {
static char s[100];
strncpy(s,s2,200);
return(s);
}
I have trouble believing Blake Stowell's clams...
Then don't listen to the man's clams. What do mollusks know about jurisprudence anyway?
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
It's official! The Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO, $CO) have been taking lessons from their close acronymical relatives the Church of Scientology (CoS, Co$). Don't believe me? The evidence is quite compelling:
Extortion
Spurious Copyright Lawsuits
Unwarranted Secrecy
Playing to the media
Paranoia
Dead-agenting
Yup, it's only a matter of time before SCO declares itself a religion, McBride declares himself God, and the staff are made to buy e-meters, exorcise their body thetans and start work on a remake of Battlefield: Earth... remember - SCOentology, you heard it here first, people. :)
These sigs are more interesting tha
1. You do not talk about Open Source Fight Club.
... it all depends on how bribable our legal system is, either directly or indirectly. SCO got a lot of clams from investors recently ...
Infuriate left and right
"The Court of Slashdot", I like it...
Judge: "Mr. ForeGeek of the Jury, have you reached a verdict?"
FGOTJ: "Yes, Your Honor"
Judge: "What say you?"
FGOTJ: "We find the defendant guilty of Trolling in the first degree"
Judge: "I sentence the defendant to -1, Flamebait!"
That should teach 'em! Or not...
And remember kids: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
The first time I read this, I thought it said "dopes".
10 SCO says "X is confidential"
20 IBM appeals to the judge
30 The court rules on whether X is not
40 GOTO 10
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
The news would be something along the lines of: The Orlando Magic ban audiences from attending games because 'we can't make baskets when people are looking'.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Tonight on BBC 4: Clamofibophobia -- are bivalve mollusks lying to you?
As a public service to the /. community, let me review the relative truthfulness of various members of the animal kingdom.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Hey, this is Slashdot. You expect me to check facts before I submit?
If there's a rational here, I would (seriously) appreciate an explanation.
Funny, I understand Judges love to be told the law,
And UNIX gurus love to be told how to use grep.
Also, doctors love to be told how do practice medicine.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I just have one of my kids hit the keyboard. I don't agree to anything. It isn't like a car, where you have responsbility for the driver since you have control over the vehicle. The next thing I am going to do is setup a secondary keyboard or something on the floor and just put a dog snack on there when I need to click on a EULA. "I'm sorry your honor, I did not agree to the terms and conditions, I did not read them and do not know the contents. Fido may though."
--ngoy
It is official; Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO UnixWare community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO UnixWare has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO UnixWare because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO UnixWare continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO has lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time UnixWare developers L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
All major surveys show that UnixWare has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
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