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Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux User
herrvinny writes "As proprietor of SCO Countdown, I just wanted to remind people that today is the deadline for SCO to sue a Linux user. As everyone should know, SCO, 3 months ago, promised to sue a Linux user within three months. Well, that day has come. Who is SCO going to sue, if it is even going to sue?"
It's worth pointing out that today isn't SCO's deadline to sue Linux users. Today's is the deadline imposed by SCO for all Linux users to ante up the money or face possible lawsuits from SCO. All things considered, I'd love to see them try. Considering the recent news of AT&T and Novell documents, I'd love for SCO to sue me, then lose their case(s) to Novell/IBM and let me sue back for extortion, loss of income, etc.
Hey SCO. I use Linux. I install Linux for 100's of companies a year. I failed to pay for any SCO licenses. Please sue me! My email is andrew@nccomp.com.
"The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers
This document describes SCO's case (or lack thereof) in more detail than any other piece of info so far. Lots of stuff for the Linux community to pick apart. Most especially a description of the "millions of lines of code" that they claim they own.
Perhaps this entry is relevant? (Red Hat News - Lehman Brothers Threatened by SCO)
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
Really? Is Google bigger than Lehman Brothers, whom SCO just recently threatened on this issue?
a rticle.php?story=200402171 13800806
http://www.lehman.com/
http://www.groklaw.net/
Not all 'major users of Linux' are Internet companies...
But regardless of whether SCO has already sued a user or is just running a little behind schedule, winning any Linux lawsuits may have just gotten a lot harder for SCO.
Who said so? AT&T -- in 1985.
Check it out for the juce..
At least that's somewhat implied in some speculation at Groklaw. According to that story, Lehman Brothers got a nasty-gram and promptly dispatched it to RedHat of servicing... RedHat attached it to some kind of motion or something (IANAL) suggesting that although SCO had promised the judged it was not threatening RedHat's business, threatening RedHat's customers was the same thing...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
"SCO vs. AT&T cannot continue until SCO proves its not baselessly slandering RedHat's product."
No it wouldn't.
"SCO vs. RedHat cannot continue until SCO shows that IBM illegally copied code."
Yes it can. RedHat needs only prove that SCO had no proof that IBM did so. SCO has more-or-less admitted this to the court in the IBM case.
"SCO vs. IBM cannot continue until SCO shows that that they and not Novell in fact own the code."
Not true. SCO has not included any copyright terms. Nor is the Unix copyright been disputed in the Novell case yet.
"SCO vs. Novell cannot continue until SCO proves that AT&T is not allowed to violate what would be their own copyright if Linux in fact does contain System V code."
Not true. SCO vs. Novell is not about the Unix copyrights. It's slander of title case.
Besides all that, you can't create a deadlock in the court system. There are safeguards for that.
He made this promise after MyDoom was out there, and in fact in the very same speech in which he talked about MyDoom.
I expect the excuse they will come up with is to say that IBM is a linux user and they are already suing them.
However, their identities cannot be revealed because all parties signed confidentiality agreements.
You could install Cooperative Linux. It lets you run Linux under Windows: http://www.colinux.org/
While no-one knows for sure, I'll speculate anyway.
The reason that the Litigious Bastards are no-longer on top of their rightful google search is that:
http://www.sco.com/ is offline
I'm confident that once they're back (and googlebot realises they are) the searchgods will adjust their rankings accordingly.
Cheers Koz
Seems a quick link from /. evened things out:
:)
Yes - 3%
Undecided - 3%
No - 86%
Unsure - 8%
(at time of my response)
Sure straightened them out
I got a +5, Troll
No.
Even if there is code that is exactly the same in both linux and SCO's code, that does not mean that linux copied SCO. A number of other possibilities:
1. SCO copied linux
2. SCO and linux both copied somebody else
3. SCO and linux both arrived at similar implementations of a common standard.
Come test your mettle in the world of Alter Aeon!
On the contrary, SCO apparently earned the title of most hated company in tech according to BW Online. Ransom Love must cry himself to sleep at night...
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
GCC #1534
200 Campus Dr.
Grove City, PA 16127.
And I download copyrighted music, share copyrighted music, and burn copyrighted music from CDs borrowed from the library.
I also jaywalk, speed, and occasionally drink alcohol underage. I've bought cigarettes for a minor. And since I'd get a $10 refund for two hours of paperwork, I won't do my taxes this year.