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SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated]
An anonymous reader writes "News.com
reports that SCO has filed the first (of two) soon to be infamous lawsuits. This one is aimed against car part retailer AutoZone, a multi-billion, Fortune 500 company according to the site. Who's next?" Another reader excerpts from SCO's posted claim: 'AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights.'
Update: 03/03 16:28 GMT by T : njan writes with the news that SCO just announced during their ongoing conference call another lawsuit, this one "to be filed against Daimler-Chrysler, alleging that they are infringing SCO's copyright by using code relating to 'core operating system functionality' of SCO System 5."
So much for all the people who bragged about knowing it was google. *And of course, if they don't, I'm going to ignore it and hope no one notices :)
I noticed, mr. know-it-all.
Serously though, who would have guessed AutoZone. I didnt even know about them until today. Something tells me this will be a big advertiser for them.
SAILING MISHAP
actually if you trade in a chevy for a ford, you should be shot, not sued.
cheers.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Go get a job offer from Microsoft ... please?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
And 30 million jobs will be added by election time.
</sarcasm>
Ok, I'm going to burn some karma here:
W is not concerned about jobs lost. In fact, if the country would just do like they are supposed to the women would all be taking care of the home and not stealing jobs from men who are supposed to be the real bread winners. We all refer to 'right' and 'left', politically speaking but you just know they know it's really 'right' and 'wrong'.
Here's one possible way this can go. .
Who does the Auto Industry tip its hat to? That's right. Big Oil.
Who controls Big Oil? That's right. Evil Government.
Does Evil Government like Open Source?
No. They Do Not. In fact, Homeland Security is very deliberately run on Microsoft, because Gates is willing to play ball and put Big Brother code into Windows.
All these people are in bed with each other, and the unwritten rules of conduct and old croney secret winks makes this whole scenario look dangerous to me. All the Auto Industry has to do is put up a half-assed show and then deliberately take a fall, allowing SCO to win, thus setting huge legal precedent in regards to the legality of Linux.
Still, I have faith in Evil's tendency to be run by a bunch of coke-heads. One favorite quote from Colin Powell. .
Yeah. The White House is run on sleeping pills. (As compared to Jolt Cola and Mountain Dew driven code monkeys where Linux found its birth. --I think Caffeine is one of the very few 'good' drugs in the world; peps up brain activity without altering awareness or screwing with perception.) So, really, there's all kinds of ways SCO's big play can go wrong. Plus there's the unexpected random factors which control freeks can't deal with and never take into account exactly because they are control freeks.
Still. . . with a suddenly visible mechanism in place which can vault SCO to the top, I am at once feeling a lot more attentive!
-FL