SCO Uses 3rd Parties To Spread Claims In Germany

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SCO Uses 3rd Parties To Spread Claims In Germany

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 30, 2004 @02:08PM from the sand-filled-balloon-in-oil-is-traditional dept.

kryonD writes "According to this Computer Weekly article, SCO is no longer allowed to spread their FUD in Germany. This wasn't even a court or government order, but an out of court settlement with a small company. They even get 'fined' EU10,000 by the company for every breach of the settlement. Although, it appears from the article that SCO is side-stepping the agreement by commissioning 3rd party firms to spread their FUD for them. The settlement happened last month, but this is the first I have heard of it. I wonder what made them back down so quickly." We mentioned the settlement earlier this month (including prohibitions on making certain claims); the news is the attempt to circumvent it.

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Require licenses by panxerox · 2004-03-30 14:08 · Score: 4, Funny

FTA: "Gregory Blepp, vice-president of licensing at SCO in the US, said he was working to create legal conditions which require Linux users in Germany to purchase SCO's intellectual property licenses" Blepp dude come to our universe its not that bad. (i a n a l)

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1. Re:Require licenses by ron_ivi · 2004-03-30 15:36 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  And if you're afraid of that, you can always Open Source Insurance.
  "SCO Group's (Nasdaq: SCOX) lawsuit against the Linux industry has produced what could either be a profitable new market niche or a spectacular new scam: open source insurance....a New York-based start-up called Open Source Risk Management has decided to sell insurance to companies using open source software that fear they may be sued."
  Funny, the media didn't recognise is as a scam when HP did it.
Finally!! by eLoco · 2004-03-30 14:09 · Score: 5, Funny

A SCO story! It's about time!

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...Groan... by Nicholas+Evans · 2004-03-30 14:12 · Score: 5, Funny

This is just one of those stories where you hold your head in your hands and sigh. Now, SCO, write "I will observe the spirit of the law and not the letter" a thousand times on the board.

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1. Re:...Groan... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 14:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Sorry, I had to steal SCO IP to write this post:
  for (int i=0; i<1000; i++) { printf("I will observe the spirit of the law and not the letter"); }
2. Re:...Groan... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 16:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That must be one w-i-d-e chalkboard!
3. Re:...Groan... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-31 00:42 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  You even managed to make it buggy, just like their software!
  
  (A newline might be nice at the end.)
SCO... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 14:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Where the inmates really *do* run the asylum.
Everytime you say SCO by DrugCheese · 2004-03-30 14:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Everytime anyone says SCO you'll be fined eu1000

You said SCO!

Oooops I said SCO!

I said SCO again!

NI!

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1. Re:Everytime you say SCO by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 15:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You said SCO!
  
  Stone him! Stone him!
I should buy one of their liscenses by Zakabog · 2004-03-30 14:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Then I can scan it and finally use ghostscript's toilet paper setting, I'd print SCO liscenses for everyone!
1. Re:I should buy one of their liscenses by Trepalium · 2004-03-30 14:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And unlike the ones SCO sells, yours would actually serve a purpose!
  
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who gets whom to do what dirty work? by RLiegh · 2004-03-30 14:19 · Score: 4, Funny

isn't this a case of the patsy using a patsy? What I wanna know is who is going to be the patsy for this paty's patsy.
1. Re:who gets whom to do what dirty work? by Talinom · 2004-03-30 16:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  isn't this a case of the patsy using a patsy? What I wanna know is who is going to be the patsy for this paty's patsy.
  
  Yes. I thought that the Evil Empire were using SCO, who is allegedly in turn using other companies.
  
  Excuse me, my tinfoil hat just arced.
  
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Re:And if you liked this one... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 15:01 · Score: 2, Funny

What? Buy SCO and throw good money away? Hot air ain't worth 60 million dollars.
my nightly prayer by ocularDeathRay · 2004-03-30 15:32 · Score: 5, Funny

now I lay me down, to sleep
I pray the lord, my linux keep
and if I die, before I wake
please cause the failure, of Darl's brakes.

-AMEN-

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And in other news.... by metroid+composite · 2004-03-30 15:41 · Score: 4, Funny

And in other news, SCO raises the price of SCO Unix to $10,699.
Re:Wouldn't it be illegal to do this too by cgenman · 2004-03-30 15:55 · Score: 3, Funny

It's not illegal... it's just a violation of a contract, and you know how SCO loves to go looking for legal loopholes in contracts...

Or perceived legal loopholes in contracts. They, of course, can't show the actual loophole because it would be a violation of their Lawyer's IP.

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When they came for SCO, I did not speak up by modder · 2004-03-30 15:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Because I was not a SCO user...

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak up to.

Wait what am I talking about?

Why do we even have a bottle? Will someone please tell me?
Get Rich Quick - SCO/Fermion style. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 16:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Just submit your code to an open source project, pretend you didn't know what the GPL meant when you submitted it (Caldera Linux anyone?), and get bought by IBM for $60MM.
Great precident.
The Needful Thing... by Esion+Modnar · 2004-03-30 16:24 · Score: 2, Funny

What the Linux community needs
is a perp-walk for Darl. And eventually a horny roommate named Bubba. (Uh, for Darl, that is...)

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Re:And if you liked this one... by AndroidCat · 2004-03-30 17:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Also, they sell to buy a new house, pay kid's tuition, etc.
Fast boat, plane tickets, new passports...

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Re:SCO reply to my mail asking for License... by cbiltcliffe · 2004-03-30 17:40 · Score: 2, Funny

http://www.sco.com/scosource/howtobuy.html

Amusingly enough, you can't purchase more than 99 licences through the website. They've got a crappy shopping cart that only accepts 2 digits for the quantity.
I tried seeing if I could get their server to crash by filling the quantity box with a big string of garbage text, but no such luck.... :(

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Great Change by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 18:51 · Score: 2, Funny

With the recent stocks, I see new waves of spam mails:

Just buy 101'000 IP licenses and get 1 SCO for free!
Where is the... by m1chael · 2004-03-30 19:28 · Score: 1, Funny

SCO Online store? I would love to buy a SCO t-shirt and mug. Why not some SCO brand toilet paper...

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ACHTUNG SCO! by pair-a-noyd · 2004-03-30 20:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Ficken sie, arseloch..

Liebe, Deutscheland..
Re:they should... by LittleBigLui · 2004-03-30 21:38 · Score: 2, Funny

weekly SCO summary

damn lack of caffeine, i misread that as scummary. not that that would be false or anything.

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Re:Herostratos! Herostratos! Herostratos! by AndroidCat · 2004-03-31 00:29 · Score: 2, Funny

So now he's frying for his crimes?

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Re:And if you liked this one... by Zoshnell · 2004-03-31 05:56 · Score: 1, Funny

It is if you need to fill $60 million dollars worth of hot air balloons, or if you need $60 million dollars worth of Grade A BS for your farm or fertilizer company.

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