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Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought?
Int27h quotes The Age saying "Just before Christmas last year, Novell announced publicly that SCO had known for some time that it did not receive all rights and ownership to UNIX technologies, despite public statements to the contrary. Novell has made public correspondence between lawyers representing both Novell and SCO." Lots of links and commentary on what continues to be one of the strangest stories in the history of Linux.
the strangest stories in the history of Linux
Hmm, I guess, since you apparently don't consider pizza-faced teenagers living in their parents basement and getting tanned by computer monitors while living off Mountain Dew and MS-bashing to be "strange"
But SCO must know that they bought the farm. On this we can agree.
Legal writing though very explicit and written typically in cover-all-bases fashion, is way too complicated to be understood by us mere mortals. (lawyers are not mortals, they are the undead). And SCO's boat was already sinking when they supposedly bought these rights, So the competency of their legal department is highly questionable. I bet they had some pro-bono lawyer working on this.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
"Thank you sir, can I have another?"
This may end in a way that only happens in Disney movies... Before we know it, Novell will send SCO a mandate to Cease and Desist all further activities including sales and marketing of Unixware, because it infringes on Novell's ownership. BROOOHAAAHAAAA!!!
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
I'm going to have to go with "NO!" on this one. Not just no but "HELL NO!".
..... What deems you willing to say, not just no, but "HELL NO?" Your distaste for SCO? ..... I don't like them much either, but that certainly doesn't mean that I know that SCO didn't actually purchase the copyrights to unix.
So what is your interpretation of Amendment #2?
(Said in Cartman's voice), Oh, I'm sorry.. you don't have an interpretation of Amendment #2.....
I know, I don't know that.
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So how many shares of SCO do you own?
Has anyone given thought that perhaps this M$/SCO/SUN campaign is doing more harm that it appears. This is probably around the 100th article I've read about this. Reading 100 articles == not writing 100s of lines of open source software code. Darl knows that everytime he craps a turd, it distracts thousands of linux programmers from their job. Let's stop paying attention to this crap. Reminds me of the simpsons episode where the giant marketing characters come to life.
That loud whistling sound you heard, followed by the tremendous explosion and screeching of twisted metal... Yeah, well, that was SCOs stock price falling through the floor.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
...I heard that Arizona is trying to sell SCO London Bridge.
Then they might be able to get a refund. I just did that with a bag of cat food. It wasn't what I thought it was so I took it back and they gave me my money back.
a) and b), in that order.
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Xenu brings order!
The Canopy Group sounds supsciously like Umbrella Corporation.
suddenly I feel very tired
Sweet! More detail on Linux Developer Gets Laid!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
"So what is your interpretation of Amendment #2?"
That the individual DOES have a right to keep and bear arms?
What?
>Maybe you should be?
OR maybe SCO is seriously smoking Crack, CRaCK, CRACK!
until it's revealed that Darl McBride was molested by Michael Jackson and this past abuse caused him to marry Britney Spears in a quickie Las Vegas wedding.
You can only hope...
Which ties it all back to that "living dead" company story earlier today...
Scary.... very scary...
Casual Games/Downloads
Unfortunately, since they fired all their techs and replaced them with lawyers, nobody knows how to replace it.
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
Hey, that's not true. You forgot pussy. Americans will do things for pussy that they won't even do for cash!
No a problem. Tomorrow they sue the printer maker.
Back in 3003? Is that you Marty?
Obviously not - they better hope they kept the receipts. Will Novell give them store credit if they return their purchase unopened?
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
I'm well regulated! I eat my bran flakes.
Everyone is a member of the militia. But to be well regulated you have to practice with your weapon, that part requires you to bear arms....
"Oh well, it's only Karma..."
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
Why did CNN, Fox News and the other big "news" outlets fail to report the purchase of SCO last spring by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems of New Jersey? See anything unusual in this list of SCO senior corporate officers, not to mention the fact that "SCO" itself stands for "Senior Corporate Officers?"
Darl McBride, President and CEO
Darl Bench, CFO
Darl Mott, Director
Darl Yarro III, Chairman of the Board
Darl Bawa, CTO
Darl Sontag, Sr VP, OS Group
Darl Broughton, Sr VP
Darl OConnor, Sr VP
Darl Bigbooty, Sr VP
Darl Parrot, Sr VP
Darl SmallBerries, Sr VP
Their social security numbers are consecutive, and were all issued on the same day. Coincidence?
Yeah, someone as stupid as that should not be allowed to advance any farther than US President.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
Taking into account SCO's *cough* strong points *cough*, all we need to re-write is the MOTD functions.
but can the SCO people be put in jail for being ridiculously stupid and making people suffer needlessly from it?
If they could do that, 90% of the human race would be rotting in jail.
Hi.
I own much of your house. You have one week to be out
(remember. Don't be too cocky until you know for sure I don't actually own your house.)
kthxbye
Well I could put a stop to this whole thing right now, if I wanted. If I bought SCOX it would drop like an anvil and stay down until I sold.
"-"We burned 80 billion barrels of oil this year but discovered less than 10 billion." When we run out of oil, we'll find an alternative. We, as humans, are very clever and creative. It may be a (very) troublesome and painful transition, but we'll make it."
I wasn't sure how this whole line related too the SCO fiasco but then I realized that we could squeeze a few thousand barrels of oil out of Darl's fat head and it all made sense.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
So, in the light of these Linux lawsuits, where does this leave the rest of us? Probably a little safer than we thought we were.
Does anyone remember that cocky photo on sco.com's webpage with Darl McBride saying "Just as there's no free lunch, there's no free Linux"? It was there a few days ago.
It ain't there anymore.
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