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SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under
WildCode writes "SCO is now targeting Aussies in its continuing Linux licence saga. According to the story, one Aussie organization has already signed up for the licence. The ACCC has no comment at this time but this certainly puts a twist on things as the ACCC were waiting for the results of the lawsuits in the U.S. before making any judgement. Personally I think its time for the ACCC to say to SCO 'wait for the U.S outcomes before taking action here.'" An anonymous reader points to another story at internetnews.com.
evil bastards...
I think that we should all boycott Linux until SCO either loses the case or gives up trying to get licensees. Hit them where it hurts - their pocketbooks.
I have been pwned because my
How much money CAN they trying to salvage from the biggest backfire in recent history? ... ONE company per continent doesn't seem to me like it will pay the legal fees, and not to mention the destroyed reputation...
I'm just waiting for SCO to start sueing themselves.
The good is that we have the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
If SCO calls you, give them the finger and then report them to the ACCC. The Perth company, CyberKnights, lodged a complaint earlier on this month.
If SCO keeps going with trying to get UNIX licenses in Australia they should be prepared to face the ACCC.
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SCO seeks licenses down under
Should not this read......"SCO seeks victims down under?"
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Darl, you can hunt all you want, but the only thing you're going to find "down under" is the reason you've been responding to all that "aDd 5 inCh3s 0vern`iTe 6723 rusty tatamount gumdrop" e-mail.
The only companies more stupid than SCO are the ones falling for their FUD.
I don't know about the rest of you, but to me this seems to be one of the late very desperate moves by the SCO to prove they have a business here.
Lets just take a look at their current stock-price? This url [nasdaq.com] trully shows who's dropping here. It's for sure that SCO now seem desperate, and for a reason. Their business is dying, and so are their case.
"-Who said sit down?!"
-- S. Ballmer @ MSDC 2003.
The previous chair of the ACCC (Allan Fells) wasn't popular with business, which in my view, meant that he must have been doing something right. The current chair (Graeme Samuel) doesn't seem to be so so proactive (or controversial), so they may adopt a wait and see approach. In any case, I am wondering if what the SCO group are attempting to do could best be covered by Fair Trading laws which, in Australia, are administered by the State governments. I guess the anti-competition aspect of SCO's behaviour could give the ACCC jurisdiction.
is plummeting further and further. Check out
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=3m&l=off
or google to scox.
Best to view the 3month graph, in a linear scale to get that good vibration...
Justly or unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm. This clearly shows how much anger and resentment the society has against this vulture of an organisation.
Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that their legal action will work anywhere in the world. Even if MS pumps more money into SCO to damage Linux, it will not save SCO.
SCO can't kill Linux. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
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Nothing to see here
SCO suck. I am a Linux user. I know lots of Linux users. But I'll sooner go without a computer than pay them for a license to Linux, and I would rather avoid EvilOS (TM). I've nothing against paying for software, just SCO can't claim ownership of EveryInvention (TM), and the serious competition on PC isn't that great. I know about BSDs and other opensource operating systems, but I see SCO going after them eventually as well. This is a dodgy business practice. It looks to me like SCO has grabbed a few hundred lines of code from Linux, backported them in to their ShittyOS and is now claiming ownership of everything under the sun, including my DNA, because of it. The future of opensource is really at stake here if SCO win a lawsuit anywhere in the world about this. What's to stop other litigous bastards grabbing some opensource code and sticking it into a version of their software then claiming that they wrote all the code? If SCO win there will be a legal precident for them to do it too. Something similar happened to the Mplayer guys a while back, but I forget the exact details. Beware people, the future is uncertain. If you don't make a point of fighting (and winning) this SCO thing we're going to see more of it happening.
I drink to make other people interesting!
While the lawsuits might not have any result in the long run, and will probably be turned down by the courts (depending-- I know very little about the facts of the case, and have no real pressing reason to find out more), it seems like in the short run, the could be very useful... for Microsoft.
I mean, obviously Microsoft threw in some funding to this group to help sponsor the lawsuits. And they don't nessecarly have to succeed in order to have effect. Defending oneself from lawsuits is expensive and undesirable. Any moderatly to low executives now have more to worry about in any thoughts of migrating to Linux. This seems like it will help Microsoft in the short run.
It seems like the time bidding might be all they need. If they can prevent massive pop-culture defections from Windows until the migration to 64 bit, they would most likely continue the prevelance of windows for a long time to come.
How effective do you think this tatic will be for them.
Imagine being a non-US regional director for SCO. You come to work one day and have a conference call with Utah:
"Start sending out license letters."
"But,.. but I have a meeting with N clients in the next week, we are closing deals on M systems."
"Forget that. Send out license letters."
Why are people still working for SCO?
It's no surpise that SCO is targetting Aussies. Just have a look at their stock.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=scox
It's going down under!
Put the a href= tag in, it doesn't take that long and you can do it in text mode thusly. The really interesting thing is comparing the volume of trades with the price. You can almost smell the desperation, can't you?
We know SCO will go under but there will be possibilities of suing the companies who have been financing SCO to do this.
OTOH, thinking about how much IBM are likely to hammer SCO and thier backers for them I don't think there will be anything left even in the upper layers of the pyramid;-)
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
I think it will happen like the movie Contact. The first "machine" blew to shit and then Hadley phones from space and tells Ellie there is another machine. (Why buy one when you can have two for twice the cost?)
I think Linus will disappear for about 8 months, and then one day he will email us all from space, with a replacement operating system for us to use:
"Linux is gone, it is SCO's, we will now use the Mannix operating system."
Did you know that Hadley, in the movie "Contact" was also Olivander from Harry Potter, and get this... he was Kane in Alien, the guy who had an alien jump out of his stomach.
Sure, but do they know they've signed up? Sneaking a free license onto the end of a contract doesn't exactly make your case, does it, Darl?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
they just keep going and going, it's not like they even are right or harmed by anything, and they almost certainly know they are going to lose, but they just keep harassing and harassing... on principle. What is it that these people get for scamming all those people? a pittance? They're a common stock company! not some spamming script kiddie in mama's garage.
And prepared to face us.
Give Kieran (SCO AUS CEO) a call or email and let him know what you think (politely)
His voicemail is answering at the moment - 'I am away from my desk' but he will listen to your message as soon he gets back'
Haven't tried his mobile yet....
Kieran O'Shaughnessy
Regional General Manager ANZ
The SCO Group
Level 11, 56 Berry Street
North Sydney NSW 2060
Australia
Tel +61 2 9440 7577
Fax +61 2 9440 7588
Mob 0419 66 00 16
email kierano at sco.com
web www.sco.com
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Luckily, we have s202 of the Copyright Act which says that it's illegal in Australia to make groundless threats of legal proceedings. That is, you cannot say "buy a licence or I'll sue you" unless you are really in a position to sue and win. We also have a "loser pays winner's costs" rule in litigation, which means that once you've started to sue, you cannot discontinue without being ordered to pay the other side's costs.
I can't see a judge reasonably going through with another SCO case while there is pending litigation with the IBM case. It would make sense that the IBM case would set precedent and all other cases obide by that ruling. That is of course unless new substantial evidence comes out.
I think SCO's had it's day in the media. The last hold out's where the mainstream media and for the most part they've just stopped reporting about it. Their stock is at 1/3 of what it peaked at over the year. Sharply down since demcember (which funny enough is about the same time the judge ordered them to actually show the court offending code). SCO isn't going to end in a bust, but in a fizzle. And that process has been in the works for a few months now.
How's "get fucked" sound?
Yeah yeah contractions blah blah
SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under.
They are attacking Satan Himself. Anyway, why are they under the impression the "people down under" would use linux? I do believe they are running pirated version of SCO Unix. Of course, not having worked for SCO, I do not have first-hand information on what software people of the nether-world would use.
This is not my sig.
From the article:
Last week, he was fairly certain at least one sale had been completed, but would not comment on how many more were in the pipeline. "The first sale may well have gone through, but I'm not going to comment on each and every sale," Mr O'Shaugnessy said.
Fairly certain? may well have gone through?
You'd think the SCO Australia-New Zealand general manager would have more of an idea if they'd made a sale.
With all the money Microsoft has raised for them they should be able to afford a decent accounts department. After all, its the only income they're going to see in this country for a while.
$AUD999... doesn't even buy their legal team breakfast.
Of course SCO is going to try its luck in Australia. If our companies are anywhere near as keen to bend over for their American counterparts as our government, SCO will make a fortune down here. After all, our Prime Minister was only too happy to say to Bush "I'll have a ridiculously restricted FTA and with a side order of DMCA please".
So does SCO want me to send them a picture of $999, or do they want me to send them two $500 monopoly notes?
And if I give them the monopoly notes, they had better give me my $1 change!!
(Yes I am an Aussie)
"It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix
You must have been brain washed by M$ or something is really wrong with you.
Why I switched? : Runs better, doesnt crash, more/better security, you can do a LOT more with it. Most software I uesed in Winblows I would have had to payfor - linux most of it is free and works better.
rightnow: cpu 0% , ram 78MB , swap 0% (KDE with a bunch of stuff running)
sure as hell cant do that with windows.
You're using a pirated copy of Windows. I'm using a fully-licenced copy of Linux.
Which one of us is the cunt?
....during peak of activity in AU timezone.
'nuff said?
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Did you know that he also played Caligula in "I, Claudius", and get this... he played other roles in other movies, as well (like "Spaceballs").
Did you know that other actors in "Contact" played roles in other movies, plays, and get this... TV shows.
Did you know that some nutcase wrote to Jodie Foster (the star of "Contact") and get this... he later shot a US president.
Did you know that the movie "Contact" sucked compared to the book, and get this... in the book, several people rode the machine.
Did you know that people with names other than "Hadley" have been to space, and get this... they have also talked to people on the Earth.
Did you know that there was a TV show named "Mannix", and get this... Mannix's secretary was a former Miss America.
Did you know that some people post the most stupid things to Slashdot, and get this... other people post equally stupid responses.
...
Oh, wait...
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
In the land down under, pobody's nerfect.
I just... don't.. get it. How the hell can SCO just keep going after these random people? And what are they trying to do? Threaten them into buying licenses to shit they don't own? That's the only way they are going to be making money anyhow.
Let's see... who all is on SCO's list. IBM, Redhat, Novell, AT&T, BellSouth, Daimler-Chrysler, AutoZone, The Feds, Jesus, and who else did I forget? I don't see where SCO is getting the money for all of this. Wait, nevermind, yes I do. Microsoft.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better pay your $699 licensing fee, you cocksmoking teabagger.
"You call *that* a lawsuit? Now *this*, *this* is a lawsuit!"
Get help!
Parent is "click my links"-troll. Mod down.
How about this: After the evidence for life in Mars, SCO is questioning weather the particular life form is intelligent and if it uses Linux.
According to this article in the Salt Lake Tribune, it needs to stay below 6.75 for 20 consecutive days. A little over a dollar to go. Buyback could be used to try to make a bounce, but I would hope that the threat of 6.75 would cause the stock to dip enough in anticipation once it is in the neighborhood and so the buyback is just throwing away more money.
SCO are simply forum shopping. When they get a bite then Darl cracks a fat saying how some Aussie wuss fell for it.
You gotta call SCO's bluff mates. They have never asked anyone to remove any SCO code from the Linux source tree because it just isn't there.
ps: My first car was a Holden (Just Hold'in Together) Premier V8 so please forgive me !.
send them packing like the shysters they are. I know my company will
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Why wait for a broken system to produce an answer?
Germany told SCO to shut up or bring in some evidence. The aussies should do the same.
It's still a mystery to me how the US legal systems works (or doesn't work)
-- From Denmark
i run bizzarro linux :D
(asked by an american)
i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
SCO are not the law. On the contrary - it seems their business is extortion. They're certainly guilty of massive copyright infringement - distributing hundreds (thousands?) of software packages to thousands (hundreds?) of customers without a license (since they rejected the GPL).
There should really be a section for "Corporate crime" or something along these lines. Posting this as a YRO makes it appear like the law is on SCO's side.
P.S. Another SCO Linux licensee? We should really start referring to any companies that fall for this scam as SCOXsuckers.
This is the whole point. It hasn't been proven that they own any IP in Linux. Novell have stated that SCO didn't even aquire ownership of what they claim to own. A respectable company would prove such things before pursuing users. Respectable, SCO is not.
Oka- Well, shit. I just posted.
I'm sure someone else would be happy to mod you down.
Founder of Mirror Moon - Tsukihime Game Trans
That would be what? The SCO code that may or may not be in BSD but which they haven't shown? The SCO libraries that SCO think are being copied into Linux in order for a certain auto company to have made their leap fast enough? The System V code that isn't in Linux? The System V code that isn't in Linux over which there's dubious copyright? The code that SCO hasn't shown? The code that SCO has shown that was shown to be obfuscated public domain code (or was it GPL?)? The code that SCO has happily put into the GPL? The code that IBM have added to AIX that was already in OS2?
I know, it's the last possible case - the code that IBM have added to AIX (and IBM own) over which SCO may or may have contract rights (pretty unlikely) in terms of trade secrets. That would be code that can AFAIK be legally put into Linux, where the claim is a contract claim only.
Surely you mean Kylie Minogue? What a piece of ass.
That's loser talk. Stay away from the bottle, man. It destroys people.
that's right. the daze of the execrabilious felons from upon the pacific crest annex of wall street of deceit, is WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the speed of newclear power.
lookout bullow.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... get ready to cooperate with/take care of, each other.
tell 'em robbIE?
It's licensed
jesus fucking h christ, it's in the story title fucknuts
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I don't think so. Even if the outcome is favorable to SCO in the US (I doubt it, but lets suppouse it just for the sake of the argument). The US court ruling doesn't apply to other independent countries.
DNA in your Linux: DNALinux
Also, I am pretty sure that it was on the soundtrack to "Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy, who knows why, maybe Zamunda is in the southern hemisphere (as is most of Africa I guess).
While we are on the topic of Africa, has anyone noticed how the Caldera logo (although clearly a stylised C) looks like a globe, centered on the worlds most financially ruined continent? (irrelevant, possibly offensive but nonetheless ominous).
And now I mention Olympics. This isn't the first time some dirty scoundrels from Utah have used dishonest tactics to manipulate an institution that was set up to promote peace, love and fair play is it?
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
... that Microsoft was eager to cast the lawsuits themselves, but had so much less useable "evidence" as SCO to do it ?
I wonder if, in a kind of "last resort" move, they could buy out SCO and pursue the legal actioins themselves, but then they'd need to really believe these could end in their favor, and I doubt it. Maybe that's why they went with such a trojan horse as SCO ? Less effective as press releases go (imagine the taglines: "MS sues Linux companies", "Linux plundered Windows code ?" etc...) but more "credible" on the legal side - as in, the case wasn't thrown out by the judge yet.
In any case, we should all watch out for the next attack. There's only one thing MS won't do to attack Linux, it is to try subverting the code base by "infecting" it with their own IP, because it'd backfire.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
Soviet Russia? she sure gets around. You could save the trip and just go to Florida, she'll do it there for a pittance.
I don't mean to say that the papers have a clue about computers they would have a go at them just because it was an American company trying to sue UK one's
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under.
They are attacking Satan Himself. Anyway, why are they under the impression the "people down under" would use linux? I do believe they are running pirated version of SCO Unix. Of course, not having worked for SCO, I do not have first-hand information on what software people of the nether-world would use.
And nwo the little demon gets SCO inflicted on him as well? Man, even he doesn't deserve that.
May we never see th
AP 2004:03:24:
In a court decision that has sent the showbusiness world reeling,
a Californian court has ruled that the issues of whether the
"King of Pop" Michael Jackson's surgically enhanced features
contain the intellectual property of a small Utah based software
group needs further investigation.
The court has ordered that the King of Pop's nose, ears and other
body parts have to be submitted to the court for analysis by a
court appointed expert. It is contended by the software group,
SCO, that it's intellectual property was used in the creation of
the body parts and that it requires a license from Mr. Jackson
for him to use each part.
As news of the court's decision reached Hollywood, hundreds of
celebrities and many others with faces like brutalised rectums
were reported as getting ready to leave the country.
Mr. Jackson was unavailable for comment as he's in hiding, in
jail or visiting his local kindergarten.
The Machine stops.
I think all linux users should now sue SCO for damages and fraud.
Yes, all that *sounds* nice, but you lose Bonzi Buddy functionality.
May we never see th
"SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under"
Sorry Darl, when I told you where you could stick the license, I meant that figuratively.
"Derp de derp."
And while we wait we can use a "safe" Unix environment. (Safe from SCO)
That would be.. ummmm Ohh I know.. SCO Unix.. Yeah.
Well show those SCO bastards and switch to SCO Unix. Bet they won't see that comming.
PS. Yes I'm kidding.
I don't actually exist.
couldn't give a scox for anything else
You don't need a lab to make mud.
I didn't mean to say that a Linux programmer coded the virus. I thought it was done by someone who had a grudge against SCO, to make the who SCO vs Linux case to the main stream media.
But I do see your points. I hereby solemnly withdraw the section of my comment regarding MyDoom.
Nothing to see here
Kieran O'Shaugnessy
Am I the only one seeing this as a character for the next Austin Powers movie?
PS: RTFA. It's there.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
SCO's idea here, probably fully supported by financiers (no names please) is initiaite as many suits as possible. This results in hiring more lawyers (lawyers must be licensed/registered in a state/province/country in order to practice), who charge SCO money, which increases SCO's expenses.
Increased expenses means SCO must pay the bill (either out of income, or retained cash). With literally zero income, it comes out of owner's equity, which is also shared with stock value.
Are you with me so far? Good. When SCO spends all of the money, they go bankrupt. Sell of evrything they "own" (IP, source code, buildings, etc.). Court case with IBM, Redhat, Novell, DC, Autozone go away. With nothing resolved.
Another fine company picks up the gambit, and assets of SCO, and refiles the claims, sells licenses to MS, for even more outlandish prices, and fights "the good fight", as Darl would say, for another two years. After which they go bankrupt as well.
You think this is outlandish??? Please explain ENRON and WorldCom to me then. Tin foil hats aside, when someone brings up ethics and there are more than one businessman about, someone is going to get screwed.
FPOglethorpe
Thank God... I was beginning to have severe withdrawl symptoms without my regular dose of SCO silliness. I can now breathe easy and stop gouging long furrows in my arms.
"Our funds have never taken part in toxic or death spiral convertible financings of any sort" -BayStar's managing partne
Why has some judge not stopped SCO from persuing all these attempts at extortion? Does anyone know when some decision one way or the other will be made?
With some 30+% of their stock sitting on the table waiting for the roulette ball to fall, I can't see how anyone could consider this SCOX as a safe investment. Its appears that its owners are 46% insiders, 40% institutions and the rest is small investors playing games hopeing for the high margin options to go their way. When the equivalent of 15% of the share holders are betting on you going broke in the next few months, its not a good sign. It appears that options on SCO are something like 75 times more popular than options on Ford or MSFT.
Some fun stuff to be had over at netcraft.
;)
The ACCC runs linux
Also funny is that SCO lists McDonalds as a SCO licensee in their 5 reasons to use unix instead of linux ad, yet McDonalds.com.au chooses to use windows for its public site.
I'm sure there's tons of other funny things to find, but its bedtime for this linux criminal. Thankfully being a criminal is something Australia considers a proud heritage, so I'm OK!
Personally I think its time for the ACCC to say to SCO 'wait for the U.S outcomes before taking action here.' Actually, they ought to grow some balls, make a decision, and stick it to these SCO suckers!
According to this Baystar Trigger it's 8.46 for 20 days. Yesterday was day two under the Bay Star Trigger price.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
Well, that would depend whether the company in question knows that they have a Linux licence. Darl may have just sneaked it into a completely different contract again.
Out of the jobs lost in the past 3 years in the US, 0.3% of them went overseas. The percentage in IT is higher, but not by a lot. Stop spreading myths and FUD just because a handful of (mostly low level) jobs have gone overseas.
It would make sense that the IBM case would set precedent and all other cases obide by that ruling.
Take a closer look at SCO's charges. Most of the complaints aren't copyright infringement, but contract violation. SCO isn't just saying "IBM isn't supposed to do that with our code!", they're saying "IBM isn't supposed to do that with their code!"
I personally don't expect either claim to survive a trial, but it's theoretically possible for SCO to lose all of the copyright claims and win some of the contract claims, in which case they'd win some damages against IBM but they probably still wouldn't have any standing to sue third parties.
Darl pulls out a legal document. Mick purses his lips in scorn.
"Tha's nah a loy-since," he says. He whips out a copy of the GPL. "Tha's a loy-since!"
Darl flees in terror.
What tribe was that guy?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Tommorow is the 1 year anniversary of their 52 week low, at $2.23 a share.
According to the link, it seems to be at SCO's option, not a negative for SCO at all, right?
Cause their filling up their coffers for the fight against IBM. If only one or two companies from 10 or so countries cough up this would give SCO a nice amount of $$$ to fight IBM who will trounce them anyway cause they'll just bleed SCO dry before they finish...ahhh, capitalism working for Linux...Makes a change...
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
I think that a lot of life passes you by, things always seem to be moving ahead to you for no reason, and you don't understand why other people think certain things are *so funny*.
Does it come in an email disguised as Rod Stewart?
They had to do something! This tidbit already got them $.04 per share!
There appears to have been a lot of manipulation of the stock price by insiders: a big drop in price during the day is followed by incremental increases in the price just before close, so that the closing price doesn't look so bad. This is likely cooperative parties trading stock among themselves, with any losses being compensated under the table.
That's why I don't think it wll say below the threshold for the requisite number of days: insiders will prop up the price. The average daily volume is so low that manipulation of the price is relatively easy.
It appears that options on SCO are something like 75 times more popular than options on Ford or MSFT.
No one has written any options on SCO. Try to find it in the following file:
http://www.cboe.com/mktdata/CBOESymbolDir.csv
However, the short interest is very high, meaning that investors have shorted the stock (i.e. sold borrowed stock at a high price, betting that they will be able to close their position at a lower purchas price). The last time I saw data for SCOX, the number of shares shorted was almost 3 times the average daily volume:
http://www.viwes.com/invest/shorts/query.cgi?q=sco x
SCO won't tell us where the infringing code is, because they are afraid that we will remove it and remove all chance for them to make money!!!!
Of course the ozzies are waiting for their US parents to make a decision. Seems they don't do anything without the nod from the US these days.
THey can't file their own action, lest it upsets washington.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
do not click on links. New GOATSE is on the rise. Props to the GNAA.
Was their company's stock not bad enough? This reminds me of a Three Stooges episode: The three are rowing a small boat and Larry notices a hole that is leaking water. Moe slaps him, calls him a dummy and says, "knucklehead! Put a hole over there so the water can drain out!"
On March 11, 2004, the NASA Records Officer notified Center Records Managers about a lawsuit filed by SCO Group, Inc, asserting the "enterprise" use of Linux (R) operating system violates SCO's intellectual property rights in Unix technology. If court rulings are favorable to the SCO, there may be subsequent claims against Government agencies.
Effective immediately, NASA is to preserve and prevent destruction of all records pertaining to the procurement and use of Linux (R) software per direction from the agency General Counsel and CIO. These records must be preserved until the NASA Headquarters, Office of General Counsel, lifts the destruction freeze.
We are asking each Directorate to review its technical and contract records and identify any that may be relevant to the subject litigation. A record is defined as papers, reports, photographs, or any documentation used to record the work of your office regardless of the physical form. Records can be created by your office and/or document an action, activity, or decision taken by your office. If records are discovered, you are requested to segregate them and immediately notify Ms. Patricia Southerland, the GSFC Records Manager, at extension 6-7395, or by email at: Patricia.A.Southerland@nasa.gov.
Your assistance is appreciated.
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.
Damn it {drool}... Bridgid O'Shaugnessy in The Maltese Falcon. Mary Astor, right? Gotta watch that one again tonight.
Based on the information reported on Yahoo Finance, SCO has a cash balance of $68.52M. If you divide this by the number of outstanding shares, this translates to $4.78 per share.
So with their stock trading at about $7.70 per shares, the entire value of the rest of their assets, including their intellectual property rights (whatever they really own) is valued at only around $3.00 per share and dropping like a rock.
I remember near the end of the dot com bubble when confidence was lown and many companies were burning cash so quickly that their total stock valuation was less than their available cash.
I believe we may see SCO in the same position shortly.
Have any of the wonderful people that have helped develop Linux over the years been offered any compensation from SCO for the license fees they have received so far?
Let us speculate that some of SCOs code is actually in Linux. There would then still be lots of other code that would not belong to SCO. Are they planning on sharing their license fees with the many who have developed that code??
I say for every dollar of license fees collected on Linux, Darl gets 1 penny, and the other developers get 99 cents which should be donated to anyone who has a pending trial with SCO over Linux.
Well, lets say, in the worse of the cases, that ABI or any other little code came from SCO. (hum....)
Is it worth to licence and make pay 100 USD for "your licenced linux" ?
I mean... how many lines codes are those "sco IP" ? 100 ? 500 ? 1000 ? into 10 millions lines code ?
How much can this cost ?
So just because, they want to make a robbery to the 2000 linux coders and licence THEIR 9,998,000 lines of code ?
WAKE UP LINUX COMMUNITY, make your rights scream !!!!!!
check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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I like this chart, showing the steadiness of IBM, the bubble of SCO and the growth of a real Linux company.
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