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SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership

nadamsieee writes "Yahoo! Finance is carrying a press release from SCO that details a new lawsuit against Novell for "Slander of Title". It looks like SCO has finally ditched their failing product line in favor of 24/7 litigation and PR work." To recap: Novell and SCO have a lengthy correspondence over the meaning of the contract between the two companies, Novell registers a claim with the U.S. copyright office over the code in dispute, SCO files this suit in response. Update: 01/20 23:04 GMT by M : SCO has placed their complaint (pdf) online.

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  1. It costs $699 for a toaster?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
    so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
    thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
    MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. WILDCAT CAPTUARED TEH FLAG! BLUE TEAM ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Wow, if I only were a subscriber. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I was, I'd have been able to see one of the few michael-moronicy-free articles in existence a tiny bit early...

    Four whole comments when it went live. You guys must have what, twenty subscribers?

  4. Re:Future SCO story headlines by inode_buddha · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You forgot one:

    Michael Jackson catches Rare Disease (TM), death imminent.

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    C|N>K
  5. Howard Dean's "Episode" Last Night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Q: How do Howard Dean's odd strangulated screams during his "concession" speech last night differ from any other Democ-Rat howling about George W. Bush's tax cuts and Iraq/Afghanistan "quagmire".

    A: They don't.

    1. Re:Howard Dean's "Episode" Last Night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      hahahah.

      Did you catch in his speech when he said 3rd place was good? Something along the lines of, "If, a year ago, you told me I would come in 3rd place, I would have been ecstatic".

      Too bad the expectation wasn't popular opinion from a year ago. It was popular opinion from 2 months ago, when he was supposed to finish first place in Iowa and New Hampshire and have the nomination in the bag by mid February.

  6. Re:Here's your SAT test: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you also not funny are

  7. State of the Union Text (+1, Advance Copy) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Courtesy of http://www.georgewbush.org/news/inauguration.asp

    THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my dear, close millionaire friends in Christ. As we all know, that election technicality thing may still be months away, but I see no reason to hold off on celebrating our inevitable God-ordained victory.

    (Applause.)

    That's why, as my exciting, year-long coronation begins, I wanted to take a moment out of my busy schedule of promising the moon to trucker hat wearing rabble in order to hobnob with you - my diamond cuff-linked, union-busting, mega-corporate compadres.

    (Applause.)

    You know, once upon a time, another President talked to Americans who were frightened by events that were not a direct result of his mismanagement of the Executive Branch. That President was the snobby cripple Franklin Milano Cookie Roosterbelt - the Darth Vader of Democrats who came up with the cockamamie idea that government had a responsibility to low-class trash, and not to the noble captains of industry who giveth and taketh away with near-divine responsibility.

    Kinda like that guy, I too enjoy a nice fireside chat. But unlike President Gimpo, I'm not burning piles of tax dollars in a pork barrel furnace. No sir. Instead, I'm incinerating borrowed money that our grandchildren will one day be thrilled to pay back... not to mention a few pages from that annoying Bill of Rights thing.

    (Applause.)

    My dear ultra-affluent friends, I know that lately, some of you have had reason to question my servitude. Some of my recent actions might have left you thinking that I have deserted those of you who sobered me up, handed me a sweetheart career, and piggybacked me all the way to the Oval Office. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. I'm still with you, and I know that all of us selfish, corrupt, hate-addicted, Scripture-raping temple merchants with acorn-sized pricks, bloated manatee egos, and a twisted sense of aristocratic entitlement need to stick together!

    (Applause.)

    I'm told that some of you are displeased over my plan to give millions of illegal immigrants blanket amnesty and the ability to work in this county. Well fear not. I know that that idea is about as likely to get through Congress as Senator Santorum is to come out of the closet. But before the 14% of this country that's spicko-rican figure that out, they'll have voted me back into office. And what if science fiction happens and it becomes law? Well then, happy birthday - I've just given you a new slave class who are all tagged, marked, and ready to be Fed-Ex'ed to your newly legal sweatshops.

    (Applause.)

    And don't even get me started on the malt liquor food stamps I'm gonna roll out! Won't the Dummycraps be irked when we steal their precious darkie vote right out from under their pinched noses?

    (Laughter.)

    My dear financial supporters, when you hear that I helped Medicare become the largest single federal investment in a generation, you might think I've gone soft on bleeding the government of money and selling it piecemeal to private interests ruled by the bottom line instead of the will of the people. But what I'm really saying is that a few gazillion dollars of not-your-tax-money invested now will pay off big time tomorrow - so long as we keep our stock portfolios chock full of HMO's, Pharmaceuticals, and aggressively profitable Deathcare conglomerates. Anyway, the great thing about pretending to help out old people is that after you hoodwink them into voting for you, they usually die within a year or so of realizing how bad you're screwing 'em!

    (Laughter.)

    When you hear that planes are being diverted because of terrorism, that our city streets are being slowly transformed into Beirut, and that our Pavlovian terror alert system is breeding mass paranoia - it's not because we're any less safe. No, in fact everything is going exactly according to plan. Do you know why cattle prods were invented? To scare the shit out of cows so they won't balk

  8. spiritual intermission by kardar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Genesis 3:17-19

    The context here is that God is upset with Adam, and is letting Adam know about it. This is because Adam ate the forbidden fruit.

    King James Version (sorry for the Old English, but it's public domain)

    17 ...cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  9. American males impotent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    American males impotent
    http://aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/ 0,2789,421 503,00.html
    They can't handle European females

    The American male lobster can't get it on with European female lobsters. Which saves European lobster culture.

    Norwegian fishermen have been catching American lobsters in the Oslo fjord, and researchers have warned that the European lobster could be threatened. But now the danger is seen as having passed. The US male is totally impotent.

    When the American male spots a European female, things start out well enough - it's when it's time to put money where the mouth is that he chickens out.

    The American male suddenly shows a lack of self-confidence. He doesn't seem to understand the female's anatomy.

  10. Goats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We, the RBI (Really Bad Internetusers) have opened a new goatse.cx mirror on www.internetweber.de. Just click on the 'Gastebuch' link and enjoy!