SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix

dr3vil writes "eWeek publishes an interview with SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag about the IBM lawsuit. SCO now claim that Linux is a 'nonliteral implementation' of Unix, and compare their claim to those involving Harry Potter rip-offs and Vanilla Ice versus David Bowie and Queen." And ronaldb64 writes "Yahoo Business has a nice summary of the last couple of months of stock movement of SCO, and the reasons why. It contains quotes from business analysts ('Win or lose, the outcome is at least a couple of years away' - 'In the interim, we know the company is going to burn through its cash balance.'), the lack of interest in SCO licenses, the effect the license purchase of EveryOne Ltd. had, and its continuing battle with Novell. The explanation given by pro- and contra-SCO activists is interesting: the pro-SCO group (in the form of SCO CFO Robert Bench) says it is because SCO has been laying low lately, the contra-SCO group (in the form of Eben Moglen) says it is because investors are beginning to understand how weak SCO's case is."

Comments

Wow, Just Like This New Sim-Game..

[ackthpt]

I've been beta-testing Sim-Litigation for a while and it's a pretty gut wrenching thing to go through. The game is like most Sim Games, but in this one every Sim becomes a Sim-Lawyer or someone hiring one, it takes seeming years to play and when the revolution came and the Sim Lawyers all went up agains the wall there was nobody left to fire the bullets.

I noticed Sim-SCO was one of the first to die off.

Re:In other news...

[trmj]

Perhaps IBM should say that SCO's Unix is a "reverse parody" of Linux, and sue on the grounds of defamation of a good product by releasing one that's more of a joke?

:-p

Right on the money.

[demonic-halo]

SCOX definately should be sorted.

That company no longer has the ability to sustain itself from day to day operations.

Or Maybe it's better to buy 1 share of SCOX, wipe my ass with it, and mail it back to Darl McBride. It's just too hard to say what gives me more pleasure.

Ice Ice What the FUCK?!

[Tackhead]

> Darl McBride and Chris Sontag about the IBM lawsuit. SCO now claim that Linux is a 'nonliteral implementation' of Unix, and compare their claim to those involving Harry Potter rip-offs and Vanilla Ice versus David Bowie and Queen.

Now that lawyers are jumpin'
Billy Gates' cash in, and my analysts pumpin'
Insider trades, all the sales I'm makin'
Cooking short sellers like a pound of bacon
Burning them - if they're not quick and nimble
I go crazy when I see the symbol
of my high stock - S-C-O-X tempo,
I'm on a roll, it's time to go solo

(Rollin!) In shareholder dough,
Press releasin' now, up my stock will go,
Pamela's on standby, tryin' just to ask "why"?
(Did you stop?) No! I just drove by,
Kept on - I'm filin' to the next suit,
Judge busts me down, so I gotta try a new truth, -

That truth was dead, yo, so I continued to,
(IBM) - Lawsuit avenue!
Darl and Chris, wearing less than bikinis,
*** VIEWER PROTECTION FAULT - CORE DUMPED ***

best use ever for SCO letters

[rock_climbing_guy]

This is what SCO license demand letters were meant for.

Re:What gets me...

[Anonymous Coward]

What ever happened to coming home to your kids and convicing yourself that you are decent human being?

It moved to Europe.

From the Queen/Bowie lyrics

[weeboo0104]

...It's the terror of knowing
What these lawsuits are about.
SCO investors screaming
Let me out.
Press-release tommorow - get the stock high, High, Hiiiiiiiiiiiiggh
Pressure on SCO - SCO on the brink.
Under pressure.