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SCO Expands Licensing Money Chase Worldwide
drizst 'n drat writes "Article posted recently on ZDNet that 'companies outside the United States that use Linux now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, following the announcement on Wednesday that SCO's licenses are available worldwide.'" And cbiltcliffe writes "Vnunet is reporting that SCO is now threatening legal action against UK businesses that run Linux.
Yet again, they claim they're going to initiate legal action against Linux users 'within a couple of weeks.' (Funny...weren't they saying that back in September?)
They also claim that Novell and HP indemnification schemes are essentially useless (similar to SCO's Linux licences).
It definitely appears the media is getting somewhat wiser to the FUD, however, as the story reports 'The run-time licence only permits use of what SCO says is its IP,' rather than 'The licence permits use of SCO's IP' like we would have heard a couple of months ago."
Nigeria.
...the rest of the world also collectively gives SCO the finger.
The licence permits use of SCO's IP
Idiotic Proposition? No thanks!
SCO: OK guys, this US gig isn't going to get us anywhere. Let's go to Europe!
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
Whew - Spirit was busy enough, and Beagle II was in enough trouble. It's a good thing they never plan to bring those things back home.
Ryan Fenton
'Cause everybody knows that Germans *love* David Hasselhoff. . .
Every time I see the letters WIPO I think its another Oprah Winfrey organization.....
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I hear you can redeem 15 SCO liscenses inside Chucky Cheese's near the skiball games for a plastic keychain or 50 SCO liscenses for a yo-yo.
The more claims they make and the bigger the problem that they claim exists, the more they just sound like they do nothing but BS. Eventually noone will listen and hopefully we can all forget this silly mess and have proper geek articles like the lander that moves in 10" increments...
Dear silly CEO McBride,
I say NI to you. Your SysV was a hamster, and you SCOsource smells of elderberries. Now go go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
French Taunters, SARL
P.S. to legale departement: Fetchez la vache
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
" But isn't SCO supposed to have produced some evidence by now?"
SCO has produced much evidence of their agenda and intellect over the past year or so.
"We can't legally tell you to lie to customers, but it's pretty much the only way to make quota."
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I'm not legally allowed to offer you large cash kickbacks for finding in favour of my client, but please take a moment to put your addresses on these envelopes."
-- quoted (badly) from Dilbert.
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...can you say "go f#ck yourself"?
FLR
I, for one, welcome out new litigious bastards overlords!
SCO pays the license!
DON'T PANIC
Someone should point Darl to an Al Quada encampment and tell him to go demand license fees from them.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Of course we care. It's a great ocasion to learn how to say "sod off Darl" in foreign languages:
Fick dich Darl
Vaffanculo Darl
que te jodan Darl
Vas te faire foutre Darl
vai-te foder Darl
Ay Gamisou Darl
Knep dig selv Darl
stop het in je nauwe gaatje Darl
k chortoo Darl
cachau bant Darl
sa-mi sugeti pula Darl
haista paska Darl
poq gai Darl
spierdalaj Darl
yebem ti mrtwu mater Darl
bazd meg a picsadat Darl
popusis mi krac krasni Darl
siktir lan Darl
ebi se v guza Darl
Do prdele Darl
mine vittu Darl
lech lehizdayen Darl
achike Darl
jebi se Darl
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
We've secretly replace the SCO Group's stocks with Folger's Crystals. Now let's watch them fluctuate.
This sig no verb.
"I'm sorry, but I despise them like I despise neo-nazi, racists, thugs"
Why do you have to insult Neo-Nazi, Racist, Thugs like that?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Indeed, here in the UK, you are imprisoned "at Her Majesty's pleasure". Many's the joke about some new convict "pleasuring her majesty".
So, rather like the US really, except whereas we have Her Majesty, you (I believe) have someone called Bubba.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - Blake
SCO dials Suse Deutschland;
Ring ring: Halo, Suse Deutschland.
SCO: Pay up nazi scum!
Suse Deutschland: Ficken sie SCO.
Suse Deutschland: Click.
SCO: . . . . . . . Damn.
If by 'evidence' you mean 'whining and finger-pointing', then they have produced plenty of 'evidence'.
...and that's the end of our show. Donk!
SCO is just like the schoolyard bully that keeps pushing other kids around until someone hits him in the stomach and leaves him in pain.
SCO isn't even that. They're the schoolyard bully wanna-be, that claims he can beat up anyone. But for some reason nobody actually *believes* he can, so in the end he has to set himself in respect. So he goes after the biggest, strongest kid on the block, the kind that noone wants to try to bully (IBM) and challenges him. And the other kids go "Whoa, if he can do that, he really must be strong."
Until he gets beaten into a small, bloody pulp.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Answer: Kashyyyk
How else would they know of wookies and the Chewbacca defence?
Then again, they might be from Marklar.
Who's for a little alien autopsy on Darl McBride?
Dogbert: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I'm not legally allowed to offer you large cash kickbacks for finding in favor of my client, but please take a moment to fill out a self-addressed stamped envelope."
Judge: "What are you doing?"
Dogbert: "I'm trying to establish reasonable doubt."
Later
Judge: "Have you reached a verdict?"
Foreman: "We find the defendant innocent of all charges because we like little dogs who wear glasses. And we award a Maytag dryer to the juror Mary for winning the "Best Dressed" award."
Judge (face in hands)
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I think of toilet paper.
Actually, the best bit is the occasional literal translation that they gives, for instance, from the Finnish section:
Vittujen kevat: Goddamn! (lit. Spring of the pussies!)
Suksi vittuun: Fuck off (lit. Ski into a cunt)
Aitisi nai poroja: Son of a bitch (lit. Your mother copulates with reindeer)
Quite creative those Finns.
Jedidiah.
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So we're all safe then... oh, wait...