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SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code

Posted by timothy on from the da-da-approach-to-business dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Along with suing Novell - it was announced today that SCO has been lobbying Congress about the horrifying ways that Linux and the rest of open source software saves users money, allows others to use the software anyway they see fit and 'gasp' causes SCO to not make as much money as they would like. Along with all of the usual FUD. OSAIA has the details (as well as a rebuke)." Darl's words will seem pretty transparent, even funny, to anyone aware of the widespread acceptance and use of Free / Open Source software (by individuals, governments, non-profits, and even companies like SCO) -- but you might have to point this out to your servants in Congress.

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  1. Ha. Haha. Hahahaha. by b0r0din · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Oh fun. Another SCO story.

    Darl is a moron. SCO has been doing this for years. SCO won't win, it doesn't matter how much congressional lobbying occurs.

    They are going up against some giants in the tech world. I'm fairly confident that 1) They don't have a case and 2) They are getting desparate with this. Either way, I think we're beginning to see SCO try to inflate their stock price before they collapse.

  2. My god, haven't the figured it out? by Torinaga-Sama · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO is soooo not even relavent anymore.

    I think we should launch them into space. W wants to send folks to Mars, I vote that they should get the first ticket, so long as we don't send any food.

    --
    (/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
  3. Wait till you see this - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Working at the post office, I read everybody's mail. This is a letter I came across last December -

    Dear Santa,

    Please, give me a new firetrack this year and make all Linux supporters shut the f&%k up. Cause I've been good all year, protecting my shareholder's wealth in SCO IP by spending all their money on lawyers. And Linux supporters - well, they are all like Jews, Hindus and North Koreans - they don't believe that you exist or SCO IP has been illicitly transferred to Linux.
    So please, please, send me the firetrack cause the upside stock options you sent me few years back are worth sh%t right now. And if you don't - I must remind you that you, fat f&%k, are infringing on the registered trademark of SANTA Cruz Operations by being referred to by the street name 'Santa' and we can sue your shiny red pants off.

    Sincerely,

    Darl McBride
    President and CEO
    The SCO Group, Inc.