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Computer Associates Pays Off SCO
jford235 writes "Forbes reports that CA has paid the fee to SCO for their license. The deal went down in August but today CA has says that they have taken steps to "distance itself from SCO"."
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From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Articles say that the liscenses were thrown in as part of a seperate breach of contract settlement. They were not "purchased".
Oh, MY GOD!!!
Guy 1: Hey, what about that 100 grand you owe me!
Guy 2: Hey, did you know I own the Brookling Bridge? Let's just throw it in the deal, ok!
how long until
"(SCO) is grasping at straws to purport CA as a SCO supporter,"
Tell me one area where SCO isn't grasping at straws lately.
Linux/Open Source/Anti Microsoft News
SCO lawyer: CA licensed our IP. And Chewbacca is a Wookie. Not an Ewok, a Wookie! And CA licensed our IP! Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you have to find IBM guilty, because Chewbacca is a Wookie, and CA licensed our IP.
But your honor, four people have bought my H.ERB@AL V.I.A.G.R.A, so how can this be quack? Clearly, the plaintiff has no case saying I am a snake oil merchant / con man!
... like giving away free stuff along with other things ...
:-)
Ahhh, like AOL disks. Maybe that is the future business model for SCO. Get a free Linux license with your PC Magazine....
Browsers shouldn't have a back button!! It's all about going forward...
For going through the trouble of reading the subject and/or body of this post, I hereby grant you license to IP I own in Linux.
Heh heh, now I can submit a press release claiming I sold Linux licenses to hundreds or thousands of Slashdot readers. Muahahahah!
(I feel compelled to add a disclaimer that this is satire and as far as I know I currently don't own any IP in Linux and therefore can't grant you any license. Geez, that's a joke kill.)
CA: "I did not have relations with that ho!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The only difference is, water is actually worth something and substantial.
CA's senior VP of product development Mark Barrenechea says here that the SCO claim is nonsense.
So SCO is running around making nonsensical claims?
I'm dumbfounded.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
SCO was required to purchase UnixWare licenses from SCO
Man, *that's* a bummer! How do you paint yourself into a corner where you are required to buy/eat your own poop?
Licence your IP
I laughed and laughed...
That cinches it for me. I'm immediately migrating my home away from UniCenter. From now on, I will keep my door propped open with a REDHAT box!
Probably, but under Slashdot rules we have to repost the same topic again and again, because our goldfish-like minds are too small to contain more than a few concepts at the same time.
That makes you either a mutant or an alien.
I, for one, welcome our new mutant/alien overlords.
- include a license to my unique "hello world" software in my box to Goodwill during my Spring cleaning
- List as a $10,000 deduction on my taxes
- PROFI... Go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass TAX JAIL!!!!
Maybe my business plan requires some refinement...the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff