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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."

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  1. Is there really an open source solution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    CowboyNeal touched my junk lberally. He strapped me into his GNU/mobile and he couldn't keep his chubby sausage fingers off of me! He was performing many red flag touches. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going on. I told CowboyNeal that Kathleen Fent would not approve of a Perl hack touching an underage kid for free.
    Can you believe it? CowboyNeal did all this. He picked me off the street, strapped my arms and legs down in the GNU/mobile's passenger seat and just wouldn't stop fondling my stereotypically tiny cock and balls.
    They were definitely red flag touches. The god damned referee he had in the back seat kept on raising up this red flag every time he touched my junk but did CowboyNeal care?
    NO WAY!
    He just kept on doing it. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going in, indeed. I pleaded with Mr. Neal but to no avail. I told him Slashdot would mod bomb him for touching an underage kid like me (at the time I was a virginal 26) without at least compensating me for the trauma and use of my body as his own personal plaything.
    This got him to worry about his image. He continued to fondle me, all the while ignoring the referee's red flags. Then he drove the GNU/mobile to my house and EJACULATED ALL OVER MY CRAZY FAT FACE!!! It was amazing. Surprisingly the next morning, after waking up, I found he had given me at least 200,000 shares of VA stock!!! Can you believe it???

  2. Re:AMSTERDAM VALLON = TROLL-CHECK HIS POSTING HIST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because Amsterdamn is so fucking gay that even the trolls hate him.

  3. UK partial to the holocaust!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jewish leaders have condemned Britain for its 'shameful' failure to save Holocaust victims after previously unseen reconnaissance photographs revealed the RAF was monitoring Nazi death camps in wartime. 'This proves beyond doubt that Britain and the Allies knew about the killings long before the end of the war, but chose to do nothing,' said the World Jewish Congress in New York yesterday. The pictures were taken by the RAF over concentration camps in 1944. 'We now know that Allied bombers regularly flew directly over Auschwitz on their way to targets elsewhere, and had many chances to destroy the Nazi death machine,' Elan Steinberg, executive director of the New York-based Congress, told The Observer.

    RAF photo file fuels row over Auschwitz
    Documents reveal RAF turned down plea to attack death camps in 1944
    Conal Walsh
    Sunday February 22, 2004
    The Observer

    'They could have attacked the camps easily ... In their grainy black and white, these photographs finally put to rest the notion that nothing could have been done about the Holocaust.'

    The claim is likely to be contested by some historians.

    Allan White of Keele University, who archived the photographs for the RAF, said the pictures would have seemed less significant to wartime military chiefs than they do now. 'It sounds like a lame excuse, but they didn't have the time to think about what was happening down there.

    'These photographs were among millions examined by intelligence analysts in England. They had to work quickly and were specifically looking for military and industrial targets.'

    An aerial shot of Auschwitz, the biggest camp in Poland, shows thick smoke rising from a mass burial pit. The photograph was taken on 23 August 1944, when the camp was gassing prisoners in ever-increasing numbers.

    So clear are the photographs that individual prisoners can be seen lining up for roll-calls. Up to eight million people are thought to have died in the camps, 1.5 million in Auschwitz alone.

    By the time the photographs were taken, detailed accounts of mass killings inside Auschwitz had already filtered through to the British and US governments from prisoners who had escaped. The camp's existence had also been disclosed in a BBC broadcast on 18 June 1944.

    According to documents found by the World Jewish Congress, Jewish leaders in US and Britain made the decision shortly afterwards to ask Roosevelt and Churchill to bomb camps, or at least the railways supplying them.

    The documents show they realised prisoners would be killed by bombing, but calculated it would save lives in the long run if the camps were razed. At least two million inmates were murdered in the last year of the war.

    But the request was turned down by the Allies. Churchill initially supported the plan, but the British Air Ministry and Foreign Office persuaded him to drop it. The official British reply stated 'technical difficulties make the proposed operations impossible'.

    'Britain's talk of "technical difficulties" and being unable to divert scarce military resources is preposterous,' Steinberg said. 'By the spring of 1944, Allied air forces controlled the skies of Europe. These photographs show that they could - and did - fly low over sites such as Auschwitz.'

    Research has also revealed Allied forces sent out 2,800 air sorties to attack oil depots just 45 miles from Auschwitz between July and November 1944, flying directly over the camp en route. Twice they attacked industrial targets only five miles from the gas chambers.

    Steinberg said 'anti-semitism was certainly at play' in the Allies' refusal to heed requests for intervention. 'But I think it stemmed more from a general indifference to the plight of oppressed peoples.'

    Historian and author Frederick Taylor agrees anti-semitism existed among wartime politicians. 'After years of war, there had been a coarsening in sensibilities. People expected huge casualties.'

  4. Netcraft confirms... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SCO is dying.

  5. Re:Injunction? by Clockwurk · · Score: 5, Troll

    The company I work for bought SCO liscenses for our GNU/Linux workstations and servers. We didn't want to have any legal hassles irregardless of how the SCO suits turn out. They weren't that expensive compared to our other software liscenses and the peace of mind was well worth the cost (kinda like buying something from apple, you know there won't be any hassles, even if the initial cost is slightly higher).

    We didn't pay a liscense fee when we switched over to GNU/Linux, but even with the $699 fee, GNU/Linux was still the best deal for our company.

  6. TAKE A DUMP ON MY FACE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I will open my mouth.
    You will squat over me.
    You will move your bowels.
    I will chew and swallow your shit.