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Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux User

Posted by timothy on from the what-so-soon dept.

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?"

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  1. Clarity by Supp0rtLinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    1. Re:Clarity by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: 5, Informative
      Well actually they did:

      SCO Targets Major Linux User
      November 18, 2003 (2:47 p.m. EST)
      By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News

      The SCO Group Inc. said Tuesday it would sue a major user of Linux within 90 days, as the company prepared to launch a new legal assault in its claims that the open-source operating system contains the computer maker's copyrighted code.

      The Lindon, Utah, company, which has a $3 billion lawsuit pending against IBM, told reporters and analysts in a teleconference that it would begin suing companies that use Linux, but refuse to pay licensing fees to SCO.

      "One of things that we will be looking to do is to identify a defendant that we believe will illustrate the nature of the problem," David Boies, managing partner of SCO's law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, said. "I don't want to try and identify that defendant on this call, for obvious reasons . . . but you will be seeing the identification of a significant user that has not paid license fees and is in fact using proprietary and copyrighted material. I think you'll certainly be seeing that within the next 90 days."

  2. Other big news on SCO by leoxx · · Score: 5, Informative
    Groklaw just posted a text version of the SCO response to IBM's discovery request. Here's a link to the original PDF.


    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.

  3. A sign of things to come? by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps this entry is relevant? (Red Hat News - Lehman Brothers Threatened by SCO)

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  4. Re:It will be Google but not for the reason you th by Yobgod+Ababua · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really? Is Google bigger than Lehman Brothers, whom SCO just recently threatened on this issue?

    http://www.lehman.com/
    http://www.groklaw.net/a rticle.php?story=200402171 13800806

    Not all 'major users of Linux' are Internet companies...

  5. AT&T Trips Up SCO by Laptop+Dancer · · Score: 5, Informative
    Computerworld has an interesting account of a recently discovered AT&T 1985 clarification of derivative works, which suggests that SCO is SOL.

    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..

  6. Perhaps it will be Lehman Brothers... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

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  7. Re:Sue ME!!! by scm · · Score: 5, Informative

    You could install Cooperative Linux. It lets you run Linux under Windows: http://www.colinux.org/

  8. Re:Whom indeed? by EvilAlien · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

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