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Germany Muzzles SCO
skyryder12 writes " We have news from Germany. It seems, according to Computerworld, that SCO Group GmbH (SCO's German branch) agreed, on February 18, 2004, to an out-of-court settlement between it and Univention and will refrain from saying in Germany some things it says in the US constantly. There are four things they have agreed not to say in Germany, on pain of a fine of 10,000 euros per offense -- that's about $12,500 USD -- and one thing they can't say unless they present proof within a month of the settlement date. Story at GrokLaw"
Unlike Americans who are born with the lawyer gene, Germans are born with the engineer gene. So this decision is not so surprising ;)
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Now, if we can prove SCO / Scientology link SCO will be completely banned fro Germany.
Not only that, but it looks like their justice system has a sense of humor: SCO can't sue any Linux users except their own customers. That's comedy gold, right there. ;)
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Hello, Darl? This is irony calling.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
echo any_sco_rant_de.txt > /dev/null
/dev/null
Hopefully soon to be replaced with
echo any_sco_rant_*.txt >
AT&ROFLMAO
First the Germans do away with Nazis, then Scientology, then SCO!!
Seems like they are doing pretty good (At least recently...and they have a powerful Green Party!)
Post apocalyptic gaming goodness
"Yet once again the intelligent Europeans do away with nonsense that we should have done a long time ago :)"
The Germans tried to do this during the 1930s and 1940s, but those blasted Yanks would not let them.
Sounds like a cool twisted ploy to make them lose their two remaining german customers.
- cnb
Of course, when I type "uncheck Caldera", I really mean "check Caldera". Just like when SCO says "the evidence is coming Real Soon Now," they mean "Get ready for our next exciting press release, and Goddess forbid the tech nerds ever see our so-called evidence!"
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
person: judge storm! judge storm! the people of slashdot are badly misinterpretting item 4 to mean that SCO may only sue their own customers!
.
JS: mmm . .
person: judge storm? shouldn't we correct them?
JS: no . . no, i'm going to allow this one.
person: but-
JS: SILENCE! my position is unassailable. now bring me a goblet of cheese and all 25 episodes of "Berserk". i need to do some thinking on more important matters . . . such as how that CAN'T be the LAST episode, can it?!?!? Griffith, you BASTARD!!!
** Chigusaaa!!! You're the coolest girl in the WORLD!!! **
Then I have some marvellous snake oil for you, which will cure every known disease. I can let you have some very cheap.
... from the follow-up lawsuit include.
D*ryl McBr*de
Ly*ng Scumf*cks
S*mpr*ni
"Die SCO Group"
When I started to read the German news report, I didn't go into German mode, and was throughly entertained to read that a news organization was saying to SCO "Die." But it was just saying "The SCO..." Oh well.
The views expressed are mine own and do not express the views of my employer.
You're null unt void.
Signed,
Germany
I didn't know weasels could be muzzled!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
"Ze Germans!"
Any article that starts with...
Die SCO Group...
has got to be good!
"Germany Nuzzles SCO"
I think it's time I went home.
Tom.
Oh arse
> Maybe more important is that here, to the best
> of my knowledge, all countries have more than
> two parties. There is no lack of choice for
> voting someone else into office, if the current
> lot does a bad job.
The USA also has more than 2 parties, people are just too scared to vote their conscience.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish, chapter 36, 1984
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud]
[later] Marge: I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I never even heard of.
Homer: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. - The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror VII
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926)
Rule 1) SCO Group GmbH (German branch of SCO) has agreed not to allege any more that Linux contains SCO's unlawfully acquired intellectual property.
Rule 2) The settlement also forbids SCO from claiming that if end users are running Linux they might be liable for breaches of SCO's intellectual property.
Rule 3) Also they cannot say that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix.
Rule 4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Fact 1: SCO Group GmbH get's fined EUR 10,000 if they break Rules 1 through 4.
Fact 2: Darl mcwhatever is CEO of SCO.
Theorem 1: SCO Group GmbH is a branch of SCO group and falls directly under SCO group.
extrapolation 1: If Theorem 1 holds then Darl mcwhatever is part of SCO Group GmbH.
Conclusion: If extrapolation 1 holds then SCO Group GmbH gets fined EUR 10.000 everytime Darl mcwhatever says or does anything covered by rules 1 through 4.
Does this mean that every SCO press release now costs them an additional EUR 10.000?
What about the sco.com website? is that a repeat offense every time someone presses refresh?
No no you don't quite have it right.
I have some marvellous snake oil for you, which will cure every known disease. You have already been using it as a part of your daily medicines. No, I will not tell you what it is.
Give me $700 or I will sue you.