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SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement

Posted by simoniker on from the business-as-usual dept.

Greyfox writes "SCO has issued a response to the earlier OSDL legal aid announcement. Basically the same old story, noting: 'If vendors feel so confident with the intellectual property foundation under their massive contributions into Linux, then they should put their money where their mouth is and protect end users with true vendor-based indemnification.' The release also refers us to their SCOSource web site, which they claim in their announcement shows 'proof' of infringement. I was unable to find any such 'proof' other than their claim that they own errno.h. Since I'm obviously too much of an idiot to find the 'proof' they claim they're showing, maybe someone else could go look and tell me where it is."

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  1. Pfft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If SCO feel so confident with the intellectual property foundation under their Linux kernel personality, then they should put their money where their mouth is and protect end users with true vendor-based indemnification for all 5 of its remaining UNIXWARE customers.

  2. Hack teh Google! by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    By now I'm sure everyone now knows that entering "miserable failure" and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" on Google will bring them to a certain politician's homepage.. well if everyone reading this were to link "litigious bastards" to SCO's website on their webpages..

    Ya never know :)

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    1. Re:Hack teh Google! by herrvinny · · Score: 5, Funny

      Re:Hack teh Google! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 12, @03:08PM (#7955752)
      what like this litigious bastards.

      Exactly, now you're catching on. Everybody with me now: litigious bastards.

      Oops, I linked twice. Feel free to mod me up though ;-)

  3. Why SCO acts the way it does by lightspawn · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Scottish/Irish prefix Mc means "son of".

    Son of.. the bride? It seems she has already given birth before the wedding ceremony. Which means the baby was born out of wedlock.

    So it's obvious the CEO of SCO hails from a long line of bastards.

  4. SCO finally shows infringing code! by ThisIsAnExampleAccou · · Score: 5, Funny
    The release also refers us to their SCOSource web site, which they claim in their announcement shows 'proof' of infringement. I was unable to find any such 'proof' other than their claim that they own errno.h. Since I'm obviously too much of an idiot to find the 'proof' they claim they're showing, maybe someone else could go look and tell me where it is."

    No, see, you misread their site. They aren't claiming to own errno.h. That is there official statement - as in:

    IBM: Show us the infringing code.

    SCO: Um, well, Err..... NO!

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  5. Aging McBride presenting evidence by bstadil · · Score: 5, Funny
    Darl Presenting the sum total of the evidence today outside the court house in Saltlake City.

    Look how Darl has aged, this has clearly taken its toll.

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  6. the binary license? by Space+Sku · · Score: 5, Funny

    With the whole errno.h "proof" and the binary license they are selling, arent you technicaly paying for the right to use the numbers 1-124?