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MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans
jfruhlinger writes "Ah, the joys of 'track changes' in MS Word: metadata in a document obtained by Cnet reveals some earlier plans by SCO's legal team. Among them: to sue in February (their original target date), to sue Bank of America, to 'impound ... all Linux software products in the custody or control of Defendant through the pendency of these proceedings', and to accuse in court 'Linus Torvalds and/or others' of 'inclusion into one or more distributions of Linux with the copyright management information intentionally removed.' Good stuff." Also, SCO has announced a few new licensees including Computer Associates.
If all Sco's operating officers are put in jail whos going to write all the checks for the lawsuits? Also at what point does the Bar association of Utah step in and say if you sco lawyers do this anymore kiss your licenses goodby?
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
I'm sure that EV1 is very happy now about their investment and partnership with SCO. Maybe next time they'll partner with a more popular group like the KKK.
Here in Canada, it's so cold outside that I swear I saw a SCO lawyer with his hand in his own pocket. Sassan
Now I have to cut and paste!! Oh the humanity.. (yeah, i'm lazy....)
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
Also, SCO has A HREF
What's a href and why are you yelling?
If there was a question as to whether this is just an SCO fishing expedition, I think the question has now been answered
I'm surprised SCRO don't just take the list of Fortune 100 companys they sent the notificiation to, and using mailmerge.
Not often you see 'joy' and 'MS Word' in the same sentence.
Are they even trying anymore?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Anyone else find it ironic that they are using M$ Word to sue Linux companies?
Thats funny, SCO screwed by their biggest contrib.
I know this feature of word has let me find out some interesting things before. You would not believe some of the things people write in their resumes.
Im glad
This is scandalous. There's no official confirmation yet, but apparently CmdrTaco of Slashodt.org fame leaked the source code to the story. The file contained a href and then something.
Will this be the end of Slashdot?
in soviet russia you sue SCOX.....
"Next week we'll be covering one of the more amusing cases in IP. Make sure to read the case study on SCO before coming to class. It's Chapter 11, which isn't altogether lacking in irony."
More that its ironic that MS is bankrolling SCO to try and torpedo Linux, but their own technology is making it easier for the other side to obtain shreds of information we probably shouldnt be privy to.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Is bloated, closed source, evil empire produced Word a good or bad thing ?
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
"FYI... here's a free app that removes MS Word metadata (useful for sensitive docs for distribution)"
/dev/null
Here's another:
#!/bin/sh
mv $1
~Darl
Their earnings are down. They sued two of their own customers. Laura Dido is no longer brainwashed by them. They have been revealed to be sock puppets of Redmond. And they use Word, which revealed their alternate evil plans. This is by far the funniest SCO week ever.
SCO has a product?
FWIW: The tag was probably closed and the closing element was stripped out because it was unmatched. You can read more about this A HREF="goat.cx">here.
...like two smitten children fumbling and tumbling over themselves.
I think they're like two monkeys banging away on a keyboard instead... Hey maybe they'll create the next Longhorn source by the time the courts settle.
# fuser -v
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This is getting beyond utter stupidity! The only thing Bank of America would have to do is remove any offending code or recompile their apps without using offending libraries. It's not that hard.
So far we haven't seen a single line of proprietary code from SCO - anything and everything they have shown us was and still is available in public domain. Just because they copied it from public domain and put it in their shitty product doesn't make it their invention.
As far as BoA is concerned, I think Darl remembered he had an account with them where he stashed his millions. Talk about sticky situation:
Darl: All your Linux are belong to us!
BoA: OK, *click*, all your assets have been frozen until further notice...
Well, if someone was paying you 86 million dollars... you'd use their software too!
As a side note, having been forced to work with SCO's operating system, it actually makes windows look like a viable choice...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Doesnt this prove what many of us knew? Stupid, evil people use stupid evil applications...
... Microsoft Word bites SCO in the a**.
:-D
When quoted for comment, the Berkeley representative cryptically responded "She bang! She bang!" and proceeded to gyrate hysterically, adding "I gave my best and I have no regrets at all."
-fren
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
Caldera?!!! What's vulcanism have to do with UNIX? Cmdr Spock was half human!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eh, it's good enough for government work ;)
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
> FYI... here's a free app that removes MS Word metadata
Yeah, but what we wanted was an app that removes crooked corporate executives.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Headline: "Computers Purported To Be Used For Something Besides Serving Webpages"!
Film at 11.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
And no, I don't find it *anything*. Here in the real world, people use Word.
Here in the real world people use Open Office, and do not suffer from these issues. Just goes to show that some of us in the real world make smarter decisions than others of us also inhabiting the real world. Go figure.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
..Down on the farm, we call that karma.
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
In soviet russia, *BSD confirms.... awww, fuck it.
Ok guys, we're going to sue Bank of America^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Daimler/Chrysler, we're going to do it in California^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Michigan, and during February^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H March. Did we get this month's Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H welfare^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "licensee" checks yet?
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
open my resume in a hex editor and read the slack code, which says "fuck you if your paranoid enough to open this document in a hex editor. Maybey SCO should do the same.
Probably Bank of America! First they have all of Bank of America's equipment impounded. Then SCO claims they can't pay their lawyers, or any settlement because Bank of America's equipment is still tied up as evidence, which holds the records of SCO financials. insert infinite loop and call me in a few billion millenia when the world ends and SCO is forced to pay up.
Why bother? Just spend $500 per seat upgrading your company to the new, improved and highly secure Office XP 2003 Reloaded! MS will remove the metadata feature since it has been deemed a thread to Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnational security!
To the best of my knowledge, SCO has only one product: "SCO Turbo-Litigation". And yes, they are using it themselves. A lot.
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Here's a tool from Microsoft.
And here's another tool from Microsoft.
=tkk
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
So, last time I heard, certain agencies are prohibiting the use of
Another example?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In other news, SCO sues their own lawyers for negligence...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
....we'd appreciate if Chrysler could respond promptly.
Yours Truly,
Darl McBride
FUTURE CEO, CHRYSLER^z^z^z^z^z
OWNER, BIG BLUE^z^z^z^z
KING OF UNIX^z^z^z^z^z
"KING KERNEL"^z^z^z^z^z
CEO, SCO Inc.
Something like originally their plan was "world domination", but now it is "keeping our sorry asses out of jail!"
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
that was fun
Not only are we going after IBM; we're going after Daimler-Chrysler. We're going after AutoZone, and we're going to go after Bank of America. And then we're going to go to Finland to take back the source code. Yeeaaarrrghhh!!!!
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Overwriting /dev/null with a regular file will break your system in so many bizarre ways it's not even funny.
A half-dead 90 year old man with no pockets, and an 800lb gorilla standing behind him.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
I have A HREF right here that tells the brief story of the origin of BofA. Given this history, maybe Darl and friends simply just wised up at the last minute when they realized who they would be messing with and feared seeing plastic sheets covering the carpet in any rooms they might walk into at the bank.
Autozone
Bank of America
Computer Associates
Daimler Chrysler
E...?
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
This is getting to be like a 3rd class movie where the bad guys start making stupid mistakes so that the heros can 'outwit' them.
Anyone got a picture of Darl ? I want to see if he is wearing a black hat.
Half-dead and 90? Being in the presence of someone with a life expectancy of 180 years would sure freak me out!
You mean like a boomstick? ;-)
---- Take the Space Quiz!
Anyone who posts on a yahoo stock board automatically qualifies as not being 'in the know'.
"...a document obtained by Cnet reveals some earlier plans by SCO's legal team."
It's good to know that SCO's legal team has a plan and is sticking to it...
I wonder if they have the bankruptcy paperwork already filled out for when the shit really hits the fan?
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Man in suit: Hey kid, nice software you have there. What's it called?
Kid: Um, Linux, why?
Man: Because I'm from SCO/Microsoft and I think it looks like my
software now.
Kid: No way, in fact I wrote some of it myself
Man [pushing attorneys in front of him]: Moose! Lefty! Help the kid
find his wallet.
If I found that an instructor was using Undo to detect plagiarism in an MS Word document, I'd do this:
If enough students did this (substituting different fetishes in step 1), the instructors might become afraid to test submitted files for plagiarism.
#!/bin/sh
/dev/null
/dev/null > $1
:D
mv $1
You do that. I'll cat
We'll see who wins.
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Just a fun fact to throw into discussions of Mormon business practices. ;-)
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You forget that the average Slashdotter has the wit of the average tree stump.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Remember allowing scripting for mail? Remember opening attachments automatically? Remember MSIE?
Clever signature text goes here.
Anyone have an address in Questar? Some Nigerian friends of mine have a business proposition for them.
The people in question need to be fired immediately. They will bring ruin on your company.
But before you do that, please provide your company's identity, location, and all of the copyright violators' personal information. Just curious, really. Love, Darl McB.
SCO worked directly with Orson Wells to facilitate the Invasion of Earth from Mars. When they could not produce Martians they opted to wait for litigation to start to cripple American life and use lawsuits as the new business model and attempt to take over the world.
This memo was copied to Pinky and The Brain.
Older memos may exist in the form of cave art, but Archeolgists have yet to make the solid connection between the picture of a pile of dung to SCOBCE (SCO Before Common Era) and their exclusive licensing of sticks, mud, dyes, and air.
-1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)
I know who have been screwed over by Mormons are other Mormons. I'm not standing in a bigoted position. I'm in South Florida.
Now we're getting somewhere. You wanna talk about crooks? We got crooks. Big ones, little ones, you get the idea.
How about we RFID the crooks? The RFID could be made (extra large with solar cells) to intrude on all electromagnetic radiation making them unable to make a cell phone call or use a computer.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. (Wilde)
Clippy was behind all this CRAP!