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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.
Adding a copyright infringement claim? They wouldn't dare!
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.
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
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]
Basically SCO ends up looking stupid again.
Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?
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!