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AutoZone Responds To SCO
loftis writes "Groklaw is reporting that AutoZone has responded to The SCO Group's Lawsuit. Here is a link to the Groklaw community's discussion where you can find all the filings in raw form. Here is a text copy of the filing without amendments. AutoZone has pretty much said to the court, SCO has to prove 1) they own the code, and 2) that Linux infringes. Since SCO is litigating these two issues in other cases, they ought to wait until those questions are answered. Or, they say, 'If we cannot wait, we need SCO to tell us what we are infringing upon with specificity.' Since we know how SCO will answer the second question, and the court likely will too, since they amended the filings from SCO v IBM and SCO v RedHat and SCO v Novell, it seems to me (IANAL) that they should get to wait."
The stock price is down almost 5% today on the AutoZone news. IBM is starting their full court press with the attorneys and one of their bigger investors (Baystar) is VERY unhappy with them.
Buy SCO stock (Nasdaq: SCOX), the time to short is now! You just know it's gonna drop further especially when Daimler comes out with their legal response.
Thankfully in our system of justice, AutoZone is innocent until proven guilty (at least thats how it is supposed to work). I'm not entirely convince this is going to get to them. By the time Autozone is up to bat, I think SCO will be completely broke.
Last week, one of their big loans to wage this was was ercalled leaving them w/o a large chunk of thie war chest. Hopefully the Canadian bank (name is excaping me right now) will follow suit, and make this entire thing go away. SCO will be unable to keep the legal dog's teeth sharp and will lose their battle.
If SCO is bought out by.. oh... Microsuck, this could drag on for years. Having them out of business is not a good thing. They need to be on life support for another 20 years, and leave everyone alone. You can bet if SCO goes up for sale, Adolf Gates will buy it, just so he can continue to keep linux from chipping away at his profit margins.
SCO to IBM: "All your code are belong to us"
"BSD is about people pissing each other.." (Moid Vallat)
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