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IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up

Posted by michael on from the walking-the-walk dept.

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."

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  1. put up & shut up by Pikhq · · Score: 5, Funny

    How's about put up AND shut up?

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    1. Re:put up & shut up by Precipitous · · Score: 4, Funny

      Put up AND shut up?
      Put up OR shut up?

      I'd suggest that the situation is most accurated describe by "Put up" implies "shut up", or (Put Up NAND Shut Up) NAND Put Up.

      This gives two cases returing true:
      1) Neither put up nor shut up: SCO keeps making noise, without producing evidence.

      2) Both put up and shut up.
      SCO produces all extant evidence, and they are consequently forced to shut up.

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  2. more importantly by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    We want to know when the SCO firesale starts! I need a $2000 office chair for my cat to sleep on.

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    1. Re:more importantly by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heh. The Salt Lake and Provo LUGs should get together and start a deathwatch. Basically, people would take turns outside their corporate offices, manning a sign that says, "I bid $5." Victory comes when Darl comes out and accepts the offer.

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  3. Re:About damn time by mckniglj · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were too busy laughing. I believe that they are just now done wiping the tears from their eyes...

  4. Darl's New Job by RPoet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you buy a burger from this man?

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  5. Re:(sigh) by ductormalef · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

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  6. Interesting clause... by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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  7. Re:About damn time by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lawyers are paid by the hour.

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  8. Is this really such a good thing? by Dizzle · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"?

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  9. Re:(sigh) by Scott+Richter · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why are we even still reading these things? I'll believe it when I see it.

    I don't know. Why are you?

  10. If this were a drinking game... by dacarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  11. Whee! by arevos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Down, down it goes.

  12. In other news by orcrist · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  13. Re:Yeah! by mindfucker · · Score: 4, Funny
    Don't you think you're embellishing a tad with this whole 'good vs. evil' thing?

    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.

  14. Yesterday's news, now and forever... by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 4, Funny
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