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SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit
An anonymous reader writes "News.com.com reports that the SCO Group has significantly widened its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM,
adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case." There's also another story discussing the copyright claims.
...they'd have to ask Novell's permission before they go sue IBM for Novell's copyrights. ;)
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Already read this on Groklaw :-)
It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
My suggestion... How about we do as they say and buy them out just to shut them up.
I propose that the mods of Slashdot start a fund called the "Buy out SCO so they can shut the fsck up" fund. If we all paypal a couple of dollars into the pot, we can use it in order to help buy out SCO so that we can go on as usual without all this SCO gibberish.
An added benefit would be to get Slashdot Subscription pages for every dollar we donate to the cause. That will make some of the more geeky of us choose to help. Not like we wouldn't help anyway :).
Of course, when SCO loses their case, it will become significantly easier to buy the company since their stock will be worth about 1/10th of a cent. At that point, us Slashdot users will be able to make McBride our own personal bitch, and everyone will be happy still.
Hurry though! Before Microsoft chooses to buy out SCO before we can.
Just a thought. Continue as normal.
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Adding a copyright infringement claim? They wouldn't dare!
As a shareholder and a proud parent of a shareholder of SCO Group International, I welcome this step. With millions of Linux systems installed over the world, the value of the company that sells $699 licenses is within billions of dollars.
Let's make SCO the largest company on the planet and show those boys from Redmond how Windoze is buggy and insecure! Let's sell more SCO-compliant Linux boxes! Go Linux! Go SCO!
Stimpy: "Hey, Ren, if we keep piling things onto the suit, we'll never lose because it'll go on for ever."
Ren: "Stimpy! you're a genious!"
Stimpy: "All we have to do is keep finding investors to underwrite the suits, because if SCO runs out of money we'll have to find someone else to represent."
Ren: "So geet back to woork, you eediot!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
looks like it won't take long until we see something like this in courts.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Since M$ owns copyrights to the numbers 0 and 1 (thus covering all binary code), SCO now lays claim to 2 - 127 laying claim to the rest ASCII and all source code.
Oh no! This message is infringing... good thing I posted AC!
The problem comes when the owner of the wall has coated it with teflon.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
Immediately following the addition of the copyright infringement claims, Darl McBride announced that his dog fluffy, a 3 year old pomeranian had been kicked and severely injured. McBride citing his suspicions of IBM being the culprit planned to add his veterinarian bills as well as an unspecified monetary claim for emotional distress. "Poor Fluffy will never be the same again" Darl was quoted as saying from his Lindon Utah office
This is not McDonalds or Burger King where you can order a side of something with your lawsuit... Sheesh...
Slashdot.. Land of nerds, trolls, and FlameBait..
dreamed of collecting FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. But, I suppose that SCO has to work overtime now to keep the attention focused on it. What with Martha Stewart and Janet Jackson stealing the spot light.
Here's a scary thought: What if it was Martha Stewart that had exposed her tits during the Superbowl? Imaging 600 million people all hurling at once.
As SCO's stock price continues to plumet amid growing speculation that their whole lawsuit lacks merit....
...My God, look at that stock price rise!
Wait, this just in...SCO has just upped the lawsuit agianst IBM to 100 trillion dollars...
(Back at SCO headquarters)
Darl: MUAHAHAHAHAHA
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Ye Gods, hasn't this farce gone on long enough?
But it has this wierd attraction, I see SCO in the posts... ..must resist.. ..overwhelming urge.. ..to.. ..repeat myself...
"Talk minus action equals nothing" - Joey Shithead, D.O.A.
"Talk minus action equals
What that IBM lawyer did is an outrage.
I urge every Slashdotter with an ounce of human decency to donate via paypal to PETCF (People for the Ethical Treatment of Courtroom Floors) today.
No courtroom floor should ever have to be subjected to that sort of filth.
The new figure is due to the effects of "Darl's Law", which states that on average the damage claims of a lawsuit doubles every 5 months.
They calculated the projected future losses caused by ill will generated in potential customers, losses from counter-lawsuits, contempt of court fees for frivolous lawsuits and fraud, etc, and the previous $3 billion they were asking for wasn't enough to cover it.
Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary
I would like to see IBM parade Darl McBride down the street in his underwear. "You're the little boy that likes sue everyone...wave to the people, blow them kisses."
"Maybe if I keep raising the damage award, no one will notice I have no evidence!"
http://www.awtrey.com/darlmcevil/
My God! It's full of Voids!
1. Make snide comment about SCO's latest ploy. 2. ??? 3. KARMA!!!
As they say, a SCO story a day keeps the dupe post away. Well something like that anyway :-)
-Brad
...is when Mark Heise, counsel for SCO at this hearing, was asked why SCO needed IBM's source code to AIX to determine if there is any infringement occuring, when SCO has certified that Sun and HP are not infringing without having shown any source code.
Heise replied (not sure of the exact quote, transcript isn't available yet) "As for HP, there is a fundamental difference in that they haven't said they are contributing to Linux". Dave Marriott, counsel for IBM at the hearing, replied that HP has, in fact, contributed to Linux.
Talk about not having done your homework...
Jay (=
Where did they find 300 million lines of Linux code to begin with, much less 300 million infringing lines?
REUTERS, 3/1/04:
In a stunning reversal today, SCO (NASDAQ SCOX) has announced that due to a 'minor technical error', it has been looking at the wrong source tree all along.
"Funny enough, we came across the actual copyrights in the code headers, and discovered it wasn't Linux at all! We were kinda confused ourself when we saw 300 million lines of violating code in a piece of software that only has 30 million lines of code or so, but it all started making since once we realized we were actually looking at a copy of the Windows NT kernel!", Darl McBride told reporters on Tuesday.
"This represents a complete shift in strategy for us. We have bigger fish to fry, this time. Incidentally, Linus might want to take a look at this too - one of the main reasons we were confused for so long was the amount of Linux code mixed in with ours."
A representative from IBM told the press, "We completely understand the confusion, and look forward to working together with SCO to remedy the situation."
Steve Balmer was unavailable for comment, but sources close to the Microsoft (NYSE MSFT) chairman report him as having said, "Oh, FUCK".
God, please grant me just this one wish before I die... just let this come true.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
<defense style=chewbaca>
Hey! Look over here!
Browse to sco.com and mouse over the Company nav menu at the top and select the bottom entry for "Open Letter on Copyrights" and note that it doesn't exist.
Therefore you must acquit!!
</defense>
This user account is inactive account replaced by the PDA
Darl McBride had to make a profit,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmmbb.
And so an angel appeard to Darl and said, "System V code is buried deep in the Kernel 2.4 tree.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
Darl McBride translated the code,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
And Darl thus spoke "I have over a million lines of code that IBM has stolen from me. I will translate the code for our attorneys and they will get our money from IBM"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
But the attorneys lost the code on the way to the courtroom and asked Darl to tranlate again. Darl became very angry.
Darl said "God is angry because we have not shown the million lines of code to the world and has taken the code from me. He will not let me translate the code again. To appease God, we must file a copyright infringment against IBM instead!"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmb
IBM grew weary of Darls claims and said "but if you want to show us the code you think we stole, just download it from any number of freely available sources"
Smart smart smart smart smaaarrrrt
The fun continues, ad nauseum.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
DO WHILE exec_stock EXISTS
IF new_stock_price lt old_stock_price
THEN sco.lawsuit.initiate_new(random_no)
LOOP
A few more billion dollars thrown in for good measure and I will surely have enough money to complete the DeathSCO. Darth McBride (Ps. Plans for the DeathSCO are shown in this topic's icon.
SCO files for temporary restraining order against reality
IBM: Show us the infringing code SCO: We can't. You have the infringed code. You wrote it, you put it into AIX, you then put it into Linux, and we never saw the AIX original. But we own it. And we can prove it. If you'll only show us your code. IBM's lawyer: Raises eyebrow.
Why are stories about the SCO-IBM lawsuit filed under "Your Rights Online"?
Because there aren't enough of them to warrant their own area.
Wait, that can't be right....
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Basically SCO ends up looking stupid again.
Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?
actually a screenshot from the Ancient Unix version of Nethack - be sure to tune in!
You are suing IBM in a large courtroom,
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Nope, the problem is when the "wall" is really one part of one blade of a giant fan and the owner finally decides to turn it on.
Best. Comment. Ever. Enjoy!
Looking at Darl's picture on the SLTrib article, he looks absolutely terrible. Worse than Brando showing up to shoot Apacolypse Now. It's almost as if... (horrors!) he's got Philipkahnosis!
Yes, this dreaded sickness attacks increasingly useless technology executives. It manifests itself by eating their soul, and as the infection spreads, it releases large amounts of noxious gas, resulting in a foul odor and a "puffy" or "bloated" appearance. Medical scientists believe that frequent contact with attorneys, tape worms, or other parasites may increase the risk of contracting Philipkahnosis.
Truly laughable. Makes you wonder about the enviroment in SCO that cooked this up.
Darl: Larry, you go mash on that keyboard and create us some "evidence" for the case. Curley, think up some big numbers to tell the press, the bigger the better. Moe, go tell our investors we're gonna make $5 billion off this thing, and we're not gonna stop there.
3 Stooges: Yes boss!
Cue zany antics.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
April 12, 2005: I get a birthday present when the judge tells SCO to go f*** itself with a rusty shovel.
"We rule in favor of the Defendant, and order SCO to pay an assload of money to everyone affiliated with Linux development in any way, shape or form. Furthermore, SCO sucks, and should, in the Court's opinion, find a suitable location to perform sexual acts upon itself with poorly-maintained garden equipment. And on part 2, subsection B, I find SCO in contempt of court, and therefore must pay damages to the court in the form of either a fully-trained attack monkey, or two nice dress shirts."
*****
Dear Mary,
I yearn for you tragically,
A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.
He'll just condense it down to, "Experienced CEO seeking challenging position at tech company."
Why does it seem the bigger the screwup, the more it counts as experience?
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