SCO Playing Name Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 29, 2004 @07:39AM from the they're-so-good-at-it dept.

Ghost in the Shell Game writes "We've long known that SCO has had a twisted view of UNIX history, sometimes pretending to be oldSCO when it suits them, and a separate business entity when it does not. However, according to this piece on Groklaw, they're now registering the UNIX System Laboratories trademark in what looks like an attempt to confuse history further. If you're wondering how they can do this, the USL trademark was abandoned in 1993, when USL was bought out by Novell. Hopefully, no one will be fooled by this name game, any more than we were when the spyware maker Gator changed their name to Claria."

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Fighting the Losing Battle... by Supp0rtLinux · 2004-07-29 08:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nothing like those last ditch efforts to try and save a case. One can only hope that the SCO case doesn't play out like the O.J. Simpson case. Everyone knew he was guilty. He knew it. His lawyers knew it. The African-American US population knew it. Yet he was freed. In similar regard, we (the IT, developers, etc) all know SCO is full of their own crud. Linus knows it, I know it, you all know it. But heaven forbid they actually win.