SCO Wants to License Europe

MacEnvy writes "It looks like SCO isn't letting up - they've decided to expand their war on Linux to other countries. According to Internet Week, the company will be offering its Intellectual Property License in the UK and other European countries starting February 1. Whether Europeans will buy the licenses has yet to be seen." Motley Fool has chipped in on SCO's chances.

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Al Gore Invented SCO's Belligerent Stance

[Anonymous Coward]

Only Bill Gates was rich enough to pay Gore for the rights to make an OS that could work with HIS Internet...

Re:SCO is fucked in Europe

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm curious; do you think that putting a star as one letter of the word changes the meaning or vulgarity of it in the slightest? Either bleep out the whole thing to be slightly amusing or leave the whole word there. A pitiful attempt to reduce the foulness of a word by removing a single letter shows that you are too cowardly to put the whole word there but not polite enough to leave it out. Instead, you leave a half-brained attempt at being weird.

Just put it all in or leave it all out.

In Soviet Russia

[myowntrueself]

In Soviet Russia, the license own YOU!

oh... wait...

Re:Michael

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Re:Ugh stop this cliche

[harmonica]

All true.

However, when you say 'they continued to fight back' it's worth mentioning that a large number of French people collaborated with the occupying forces, some of them gladly.

Depending on who you talk to in France you might get the misleading impression that a majority was fighting in the Resistance.

GOATSE TROLL

[Anonymous Coward]

YES THIS WORKS.

ph33r

Troll Flamebait Offtopic

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I submitted this story two days ago. I guess I just don't give good head.

Re:Unlikely that Europeans will buy into this scam

[willtsmith]

Yeah, after the Micron/Rambus case I got the impression that those Euro judges don't take shit from anybody. I'm impressed with that french judge who is going after Dick Cheney.

I don't think SCO will get any takers in Europe. There laws aren't 100% dictated by corporations like ours are.

I AM BOOOOOOOOORED

[Anonymous Coward]

Please open a new story. I'm starving.

In Soviet Russia...

[Tokerat]

...our only hope is YOU?

Re:Ahem...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's good! Our women are prettier

Pretty ugly you mean. I can't even tell a German woman from a man without a full physical. Same for a French woman and a gorilla. Dudes, get your bitches to shave their damn pits. Savages.

...our food is better

Hmmm. Pizza and burgers or snails and haggis. Point, USA.

...our cities are beautiful

You have cities now? Honest to goodness cities? You're shitting me. You know what a city is right? New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. What are you talking about? Luxembourg,Warsaw, Belgrade, Sarajevo?

our culture is interesting

If it's so interesting why are the biggest grossing films in Europe American ones? Sure, I guess you guys wrote some books or something back in the day but the cultural impact of the Internet pretty much beats them all.

and our education is actually worth something

If it's between a guy from MIT and a guy from the University of the Azores, guess who I'm picking?

So, overall, STFU you dumbass piece of shit.

Re:Ugh stop this cliche

[Dimensio]

The French fought valiently in WW2.

Yes, they put up a valiant ten minute struggle. Most of that time was spent going from one end of the country to the other, because they hadn't expected the German forces to attack from the Belgian border. I mean, it's not like they had done it before, except for that one time in THE FIRST WORLD WAR!

Re:Ugh stop this cliche

[muffen]

Oh c'mon. They gave up much quicker than they had to. They stood by watching German Nazis parade down Champs Elysee through Arc de Triumph merely days after the attacking started. They would have been beaten eventually, and they probably saved lives by giving up... but at the same time they gave up their pride and gave us the right to make fun of them for it.

SCO has superior intellectual property, France will be part of the SCO empire by noon tomorrow (altought some brave souls will fight SCO by using Linux without paying... zat is ze French way). McBride will walk victoriously down Champs Elysee, and then through Arc de Triumph, where Linus will smack him in the head with a small eiffeltower he bought for 25euros (ripoff) outside the Eiffel Tower... and SCO will be no more...
Linus will take the Thalys to Amsterdam to celebrate his victory... little does he know that McBride didn't die, and the girl he's about to visit in Amsterdam is really McBride in disguise...

Please tune in tomorrow for the next episode of: "Linus Eiffelsmacks McBride and then shags him".

Re:France Surrenders

[Natestradamus]

Didn't do them much good, did it? It merely highlights that the value of a French 'non', whether given in regards to Bush's invasion or a rogue state's WMD efforts, is worth nothing. Better for France by far if they had known their place and acquiesced.