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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.
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".
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"
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Xenu brings order!
The Canopy Group sounds supsciously like Umbrella Corporation.
suddenly I feel very tired
Which ties it all back to that "living dead" company story earlier today...
Scary.... very scary...
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Unfortunately, since they fired all their techs and replaced them with lawyers, nobody knows how to replace it.
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
Back in 3003? Is that you Marty?
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.
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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