Open Source Group Victoria v. SCO, Part II

Following up on last July's complaint, Elektroschock writes that "The Open Source Group Victoria (OSV) made a second complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). In a similar case in Germany SCO Group received an injunction from the court, so SCO never sold Linux licenses in Germany (tarent vs. SCO, district court Munich). Competition police seems to be a strong weapon against SCO-like action."

Comments

Injunction?

[beni1207]

SCO never sold licenses in Germany because of an injunction? Have they sold any licenses anywhere? Didn't think so....

Re:Injunction?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lyrical: "Injunction, junction, what's your function()...?"

*sorry*

Re:Injunction?

[stonebeat.org]

there website has to be online before they sell anything ;)

Re:Injunction?

[wfbush]

"Injunction junction, what's your function()...?"

Puttin' together orders, and lawsuits, and judgements...

Not that there's gonna be any judgements any time soon, SCO's just gonna keep dragging this out...

Re:Injunction?

[thestarz]

kinda like buying something from apple

You just compared Apple with SCO and got modded +3, Informative. Nice one!

Re:Injunction?

[jepaton]

Not necessarily, they could sell a list of all the Trojan infected hosts flooding their network. Perhaps that might be a more viable business plan than suing IBM et al.

Re:Injunction?

[loftis]

Open Source possess code of mass (us) destruction.

We are sure of this. We know it. Believe us, it's there.

IBM put it there.

We must invade (AIX) IBM to show you, though.

Re:Injunction?

[kesler]

Do you think Saddam's press guy could take over Darl's job? The guy who said that the US wasn't past Tigris while the soldiers were in Iraq?

Careful!

[Black Parrot]

Taking them to court may be a violation of their business method patent!

Re:Careful!

[rholliday]

"We at the SCO Group have observed several companies, namely one known as the 'RIAA' acting in blatant mimicry of our tried-and-true bullying tactics. We will be taking them to court immediately ..."

Now there's a dream matchup. :)

Re:Competition Police

[betelgeuse-4]

I was searching to find out if the UK authorities are doing anything about SCO and the following ad came up:

Sco
Brilliant offers on thousands
of computing products.
www.ebay.co.uk

On clicking the link, I found a copy of SCO Unix for just 25GBP. What a bargain! Much cheaper than this $699.00 Linux stuff I've heard so much about.

SCO never sold any licenses at all

[RoLi]

so SCO never sold Linux licenses in Germany

In fact quite some people tried to purchase licenses and SCO wouldn't sell them any (because then SCO could get sued for racketeering(sp?))

SCO is saying you stole their lawn mower

[linuxguy]

It is like SCO is saying that you stole their lawn mower because they heard you have an automobile. As evidence they point to your neighbour's RV.

Yes, it is that crazy.

[Stolen from Yahoos Finance's SCOX Message Board]

With Apologies to Mother Goose

[mehaiku]

There once was a man named McBride
Who brought a great case to be tried
His stock was a hit
As Darl talked his shit
But the code he continued to hide.

To lawyers McBride was a debtor
Who sought to sue users by letter
He sued IBM
With facts few and thin
A five year old could have done better.

Darl's *nix was the first in his deal
The clones that came after he'd steal
The clones were his perks
Or derivative works
Like prior art on the wheel.

The press was the court Darl first chose
Didio just brought it new lows
One could not but wonder
Whose sheets they were under
Since both were just Microsoft hoes.

Darl claimed stolen code when he sued
With millions of lines he'd include
He must have deceived
Since no one believed
He could count to twenty one when nude.

To be purchased was Darl's major plan
Then retire and keep up his tan
IBM said, "Fuck off,
You won't be playing golf
But homeless, beside a trash can."

McBride only wanted a fee
For Linux , which always was free
His whole case was hinging
On Linux infringing
On SCO's useless IP.

Darl wanted these fees forever
For hatching a plan he thought clever
With news so infernal
While hacking the kernel
Linus said "what the fuck ever."

Who understood Darl's attack?
Surely he smoked the best crack
We were mostly appalled
Ninety-three called
Wanting their UnixWare back.

In Vegas Darl said it would be
A display of infringing IP
Boy Wonder McBride
Pitched all truth aside
What he showed was all BSD.

Darl sued everyone that he could
With contracts he misunderstood
Not even a shrink
Could teach him to think
These lawsuits just made him sport wood.

(post to be continued in following post due to Slashdot wordcount filter, sorry)

Re:With Apologies to Mother Goose

[mehaiku]

(continued from previous post due to Slashdot word count filter)

Europe thought Darl lost his mind
He tried suits there of the same kind
But Germany said
Your scam is now dead
Don't let the door hit your behind.

Darl's case was completely absurd
With years 'for a ruling occurred
It was Darl that I cursed
Asking which would come first
The end of this case or the Hurd?

Finally with the court's backing
Which Groklaw was certainly tracking
The discovery phase
Began in a haze
Since SCO's facts were so lacking.

Just seventeen files we could see
How much smaller could Darl's facts be?
In court we were glad
His case truly had
Much bigger holes than goatse.

Darl's game was just mostly extortion
Without facts, why pay him a portion?
We needed a basis
To give to Darl's cases
A retroactive abortion

Novell finally opened some doors
Telling Darl, "This code is not yours,
Now don't have a fit,
But you do not own shit"
Me thinks Novell just karma whores.

How foolish was Darl to be trying
These cases with nothing but lying
Within a short term
Judge Wells will confirm
That SCO is dying.

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Re:"Administrative detention up to six months"

[Tony Hoyle]

True.

It's a bitch parsing CSV files produced in some european countries....

Check your dictionary(.com)

[The Monster]

That would jive with the "seems"

I think you mean 'jibe':

jibe intr.v. Informal jibed, jibing, jibes
To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.

which is rather the opposite meaning of 'jive':

v. jived, jiving, jives v. intr.
To play or dance to jive music. Slang. To talk nonsense; kid.

Someone please....

[Karem Lore]

Can someone please claim binary code please please. That way we can demand license fees from every single program ever conceived and compiled.

I have 2 things to say to you SCO:

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and

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