SCO Uses 3rd Parties To Spread Claims In Germany

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

[panxerox]

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)

Re:Require licenses

[ron_ivi]

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!!

[eLoco]

A SCO story! It's about time!

...Groan...

[Nicholas Evans]

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.

Re:...Groan...

[Anonymous Coward]

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");
}

Re:...Groan...

[Anonymous Coward]

That must be one w-i-d-e chalkboard!

SCO...

[Anonymous Coward]

Where the inmates really *do* run the asylum.

Everytime you say SCO

[DrugCheese]

Everytime anyone says SCO you'll be fined eu1000

You said SCO!

Oooops I said SCO!

I said SCO again!

NI!

Re:Everytime you say SCO

[Anonymous Coward]

You said SCO!

Stone him! Stone him!

I should buy one of their liscenses

[Zakabog]

Then I can scan it and finally use ghostscript's toilet paper setting, I'd print SCO liscenses for everyone!

Re:I should buy one of their liscenses

[Trepalium]

And unlike the ones SCO sells, yours would actually serve a purpose!

who gets whom to do what dirty work?

[RLiegh]

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.

Re:who gets whom to do what dirty work?

[Talinom]

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.

my nightly prayer

[ocularDeathRay]

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-

And in other news....

[metroid composite]

And in other news, SCO raises the price of SCO Unix to $10,699.

Get Rich Quick - SCO/Fermion style.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:And if you liked this one...

[AndroidCat]

Also, they sell to buy a new house, pay kid's tuition, etc.

Fast boat, plane tickets, new passports...