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One Company's Response to SCO
Great_Jehovah writes "The CIO of Just Sports USA received an extortion letter from SCO, started a thread about it on the pgsql-general and then posted his response letter after weighing the various pieces of advice and info he received. Here's hoping that most of SCO's intended victims do the same." An anonymous reader submits a story in a Utah paper about SCO: "The Salt Lake City Weekly paper is running a front page article on the SCO shenanigans. The reporter interviewed Darl, Linus, Bruce Perens and others for the article with new choice quotes from them all." Also, IBM at Linuxworld claims it will win against SCO (miscellaneous plug: CmdrTaco will be speaking at Linuxworld later today).
Dear SCO: FUCK OFF.
SCO==Full of shit?
Does this sound familar to anyone else?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Now when I think about it, isn't the greatest vaporware of 2003 the "millions" or "thousands" lines of SCO code in Linux?
And they didn't put it on presale order to get money from users, they started right away with licensing. New heights in vaporware competition.
Very well stated.
January 21, 2004
Mr. Philip Langer
Regional Director, Intellectual Property Licensing SCO Group
355 South 520 West Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
Dear Mr. Langer:
I am writing you in response to your letter dated January 19th, 2004 in which you advised that you would
consider legal action if we failed to respond to your efforts to pursue a licensing arrangement. To date, I
have yet to receive any information concerning our systems and what you allege violates your intellectual
property rights. You have sent me letters that conflict with other statements made by representatives of the
SCO Group concerning SCO's ownership of UNIX ABI's and their supposed (re)distribution under the GPL in the Linux kernel.
If you would like to detail directly which of our systems allegedly violate your copyrights, and specifically
which code on said systems allegedly violates said copyrights, we will be happy to do an internal audit to
verify your claims. Once the results of said audit are complete, we will be more than willing discuss any
pending licensing issues with you.
Our current understanding of your legal situation is that your organization has yet to prove your claims of
SCO intellectual property being included in the GPL based Linux kernel software that SCO itself has
distributed under the GPL. While I understand your concerns regarding intellectual property and your desire to protect SCO's property, at this time, the legality and claims concerning SCO's ownership of code
that exists in the 2.4 Linux kernel has yet to be determined by a court of law. I, speaking for myself, follow
with interest SCO Group's contortions in its lawsuits against Novell and IBM, and its defense against the
lawsuit brought by Red Hat. In my study of the events that have transpired, it's my understanding that
SCO Group has yet to produce any substantive evidence as to the claims regarding code misappropriation
by IBM. I am requesting the SCO Group to provide to my organization substantive evidence of alleged copyright violations so that we may compare the alleged violations for the purpose of internal audit to
determine if any licensing needs to indeed exist. I do, however, intend to publicly document the results of
said audit and any communication with the SCO Group regarding this matter.
Before you waste any more of my time or yours, please detail exact information such as the offending lines
of code and the kernel versions you contend this code is in. Alternatively if your organization agrees, we
can re-address these issues after your current lawsuits regarding these issues are finalized.
Sincerely,
Gavin M. Roy
Chief Information Officer
Just Sports USA
When I was programming basic on my TI-99/4a, I copyrighted the statements: 10 print "Barry" 20 goto 10 This obviously prints Barry across the screen infintely and I spent a lot of time on this program when I was 7. I plan on protecting my intellectual property and I'm willing to bet that countless people have stolen at least part of the code that I wrote on line 20. I'm suing everyone, for copyright infringement unless you all send me a dollar.
60 percent of the time, my comments are right everytime.
I think some groups have accomplished this in Europe (Germany?).
I thought Redhat was trying to do this now in the US.
In Soviet Russia, they would also have been fined, jailed, and sent to a state sponsered "pound me in the a**" gulug in Siberia. :P
It wasn't easy being Greazy