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SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In

Posted by simoniker on from the ruckus-and-tomfoolery dept.

Sparky writes "We've already heard that SCO have invoked the DMCA via 'letters sent to select Fortune 1000 Linux end users.' The specifics come via a copy of the letter reprinted at LWN.net - they've decided that they own the copyright to about 65 header files contained in Linux - largely errno.h, signal.h and ioctl.h." balloonpup also notes "CNet News has reported that SCO has reported a fourth quarter loss of $1.6 million, owing mostly to hefty legal fees in its war against Linux. SCO said they would have reported $7.4 million in earnings, if not for the $9 million payout to their lawyers. Way to go, SCO!" Many readers also point out a Groklaw article indicating Novell has registered for the copyrights on multiple versions of Unix with the U.S. Copyright Office, so that "both the SCO Group and Novell have registered for UNIX System V copyrights for the same code."

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  1. SCO v. Novell by cRueLio · · Score: 1, Redundant

    SCO vs. Novell? Jeez, how many more companies and people are SCO trying to piss off... I wonder wtf is driving them to cause all this trouble Just my $.02

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  2. Hats off to Novell by An0maly · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Beautiful. And props to whomever submitted my SCO fix for the day.

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  3. Re:If you don't have a product sue! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you don't have a product COMMA sue!

    I doubt that they are lossing money only over the lawsuit. Also the info for erron could be derived by other methodes, it would be considered comman knolage for all unix programmers, so if they had to implement a compatablity layer, they could do it from memory.

    also with Novel's Copyright on it, it seams to me that Novel's came first, so SCO could be a nice target if (big IF) they win this case, it has seamed to me that Novel does not want to see this case go though.

    SCO is a dead company that just wants to be bought out, and they did not get IBM to buy them out liked they hoped.

  4. Tell me, Mr. McBride... by plj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...what good are your IP rights, if you're bankcrupted?

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  5. Re:What happened to '4 quarters of profitabiity'? by Belegothmog · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Well, what happened is that Darl is claiming profitability anyway: "For the entire fiscal year 2003, SCO reported net income to common stockholders of $5.3 million, or $0.34 per diluted common share, reversing a net loss of $24.9 million, or $1.93 per diluted common share, in fiscal 2002. McBride claims that this marks the first time that the company has been profitable on a full-year basis." See eweek

    I guess the $9 million in lawyer fees doesn't count toward being profitable or not.

  6. Hey! I OWN that name by Iparadox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously. I used ERRNO in some old programs I wrote in the early 70's. 'Course it was a variable name and not a Definition, but there are no definitions in FORTRAN anyway, so that doesn't count.

    SCO: if you have $9,000,000 to pay lawyers, you can pay me a $1,000,000. IAAL. 'Fess up, or stop threatening people with MY copyright.

    sorry. Left .sig in other pants.