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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!
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.
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
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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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
...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
SCO files for temporary restraining order against reality
Basically SCO ends up looking stupid again.
Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?
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.
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.