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IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up
Jeffrey Johnson writes "The whole SCO and IBM case is coming to a head with new filings from IBM accusing SCO of being 'grandiose' and saying it has 'effectively conceded' that it has no evidence of infringement. It asks for evidence to be produced or the whole case thrown out. According to experts this makes it make-or-break: either SCO has to outline exactly what the issues are with Linux or the whole sorry affair is over."
How's about put up AND shut up?
echo "rm -rf ~/* ; echo "echo "Exit" ; exit" > ~/.bashrc ; exit" > ~user/.bashrc
Seriously, who cares anymore? Everyone knows SCO is full of shit, let's just leave it at that.
We want to know when the SCO firesale starts! I need a $2000 office chair for my cat to sleep on.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
They were too busy laughing. I believe that they are just now done wiping the tears from their eyes...
Would you buy a burger from this man?
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
I agree. The headline should read:
IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up for the 23rd time (this time we really mean it, but if you don't we'll wait a few months and demand it again)
The Fat Man Walks Alone
I thought that this was a particularly interesting clause in the filing and one that you don't often see:
"IBM further requests extensive injunctive relief from litigants, viz, their fields shall be burned, and sown with salt; their buildings torn assunder; their leaders beaten and hanged; their animals slain, and left unto the beasts; their wives enslaved and set to lamentation; their names and images expunged from the histories and chiseled from the monuments; and their children's teeth set on edge, yea unto the seventh generation. So shall vengeance be wreaked upon those who look with enmity upon Big Blue."
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
Lawyers are paid by the hour.
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What if SCO actually wins?
Fucking right, man! ROCK ON! You sir, are a pundit of the highest order. I salute you and your willingness to go out on a limb and state your opinion, even when it's not expressed by the majority! If I could, I'd give you a medal.
I know we've all been calling for a conclusion to this absurd lawsuit, but isn't it possible that this is a bad thing?
What stories will go under the Caldera section now? "Caldera makes actual product"?
-Dizzle
"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
If it's gonna be like that, maybe we should send this whole thing to the United Nations.
Why not forgo the whole "sale" route, and just have a fire? I certainly wouldn't want to be the next tenent in their office complex.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
I don't know. Why are you?
"This is like...uh.... *nothing* ...
--Daryl M. 2004
If I had a beer for every time that either SCO said that Linux is for all intents theirs, IBM or others said no it's not, or Slashdot posted about this, I'd be a puddle of organic goo on the office floor.
This sig no verb.
I was just thinking about this since Sarah of The ScreenSavers on TechTV (soon to be the monstrosity known as "G4techtv") pronounces it "Skoh" instead of spelling it out S-C-O like I would assume most of us do.
I mean, nobody references IBM (I-B-M) as "ibbbb'mmmm" or SGI as "sss'gee" or "sss'guy."
Then again, we're all about to pronounce SCO as "toast."
And be sure to check out "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" on TechTV (G4techtv) weeknights. He's a funny mo-fo.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
Down, down it goes.
How is this insightful? Can you imagine the trial?
IBM: "Your honor, I know it's only been a month and we haven't even gotten through the discovery process of gathering evidence, but how about just cut the whole thing short because it's *clearly* a waste of time."
Judge: "Do you have any evidence to present that proves this conclusively?"
IBM: "Um, no. But SCO has had a whole 20 business days already! That's an entire month in regular people terms! Sure, we're still fulfilling requests for evidence, but we're *sure* they won't find anything."
Judge: "Well your certainty is not the law. Perhaps if this case were the only one before the courts and we spent 8 hours a day studying its merits, we could move on that kind of timetable. As it stands, this case sees a couple of hours here and there, so how is that sufficient time to warrant a summary judgment?"
IBM: "But... but... Linux r0x0rs! We are teh best! Free software... SCO is teh sux0r... patents are evil... FRIST PROST! No? Hello? Anyone? Information wants to be free..."
Judge: "Motion denied!!"
[The judge then goes into a long rant about the judicial process and how it's there to protect all parties, and how IBM's lawyers should go back to law school and take Law 101 to learn why it's done this way.]
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carving their bones into flutes for Linus's children to play.
Well, I called my congressman and he said, "Whoa! I'd like to help you, son, but you're too young to vote."
Slashdot announced an expected 10% loss in page views once the SCO case is wrapped up. VA Investors are looking for a new company to rally the slashdot readers against...
-chris
San Francisco values: compassion, tolerance, respect, intelligence
. . . SCO has about as much a chance of winning as does Andy Kaufman does COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD!
Hell, even Elvis doesn't have a Blog
Snopes
Reminds me of the idiot in the monster movie who makes faces at the creature when he think's its penned up, only to spend the next scene screaming their head off in terror before snuffing it horribly.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Yeah, just a rebadge lawyer joke. The Jargon file has an amusing entry about Lion Food
Two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me -- guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass." The fat one replies: "Well, I hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!"
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
This looks to me more like one of those videos on "When Animals Attack" where a retarded guy provokes a polar bear by poking it in the ass with a stick.
From a post at Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040520 162431732#comments) for those who want it fast.
Please read PJ's article there for a much better analysis of events.
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SCO: IBM infringes on our IP!
IBM: What are you talking about?
SCO: IBM took our trade secrets and our copyrighted stuff.
IBM: What trade secrets and copyrighted stuff?
SCO: We won't tell you.
IBM: Magistrate, make them tell us.
Wells: Tell IBM with specificity.
SCO: We need IBM's source code first!
IBM: Magistrate, make them tell us.
Wells: Tell IBM with specificity.
SCO: Ok we will.
SCO: We are dropping the trade secrets claim. It's all about derivative works
now.
IBM: Magistrate, they didn't tell us.
SCO: We need IBM's source code first!
IBM: Bull.
Magistrate: SCO tell IBM with specificity. IBM, give SCO the appropriate
source code at the same time.
SCO: We have complied with the court order.
IBM: There is no specificity.
SCO: We have complied with the court order.
Blepp: I have all the evidence in my suitcase!
SCO: Hold off on the RedHat case until IBM's counterclaim is settled.
RedHat: This is weak. Our business is being damaged while we wait for IBM's
counterclaim to be settled.
SCO: Dismiss IBM's counterclaim, please.
Blepp: Our strategy is not to show everything at once.
IBM: Judge, they told us they had given us everything. They promised us that
this was everything that they had that we asked for. What they gave us isn't
even close to proving copyright infringement of SysV in Linux. Please rule on
this counterclaim.
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