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DaimlerChrysler Looks for Dismissal of SCO Suit

Posted by michael on from the just-beat-it dept.

Ian Atkins writes "DaimlerChrysler has told SCO where it can stick its lawsuit. In a filing in Michigan, the car company has said not only does it not have to give SCO the information it asked for, but that it hasn't used the software SCO claims rights over - for seven years. It has asked the judge to throw the whole thing out of court. Another bad for SCO and its MS-backed Linux crusade it would seem. Full details on Techworld here." Reader Eggplant62 notes that Groklaw is also covering the story, and noting that SCO has dropped their claim that the GPL is unconstitutional.

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  1. SCO does have some legit claims by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    And this could be one of them.

    Most of these suits against the big corps dont seem to be about linux, but about other SCO code. This doesnt seem to have anything to do with linux whatsoever.

    If we're talking about SCO code running 7 years ago, it wasnt linux. Not in a corporation of that stature. Hell, 7 years ago it was hardly useful in my Uni's labs.

    There are probably cases out there where corporations migrated from SCO Unix to Linux, took SCOs userland code and recompiled it. This would most likely be wrong.

    Ie; my company writes code that runs on Windows. If one of our clients decides to switch to linux, and run our code under Wine or recompile it, that doesn't mean they dont owe us licenses.

    But it doesnt matter. Zealots need there heroes and victims, to paint everything in black and white. The real world is hardly ever like that.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  2. Re:Can we do without the editorial? by killjoe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Whaaah mommy make them stop attacking MS. It's not fair that a handful of kids should attack the richest corporation in the world.

    Grow up willya. So slashdot attacks MS. Get over it.

    People also attack other corporations on other web sites. If you are so upset go defend maytag or nissan or something.

    MS attacks all kinds of people and corporations.

    People attack linux and OSS all over the net.

    That's life on the net. Get used to it.

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  3. Read this, Darl: by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll
    Sing to the tune of "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf," by the Three Little Pigs:

    S-C-O is a piece of shit,
    A piece of shit,
    A piece of shit.
    S-C-O is a piece of shit,
    La la la la la.

    They had Darl's picture on one of those PHB magazines some months ago, and I have to tell you, I think he has a really ugly hairdo.