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SCO Playing Name Games
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."
I should register "Osbourne Computer" or "Altair" or something equally cool, geeky and dead.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Darl McBride has whined himself back into the early stages of childhood. Film at eleven.
... Your lawsuit is against SCO. But we're UNIX System Labratories.
How the blue part of SCO's logo looks like a chunk of Mickey Mouse's head... What a Mickey Mouse company.
My Karma is so low that even my own postings are beyond my current threshold
Hey, this is not bad news at all... Unix System Laboratories is just an anagram for Tux Sorority Amiableness. So now it's both Linux friendly, but more importantly, friendly to friendly Linux co-eds!
Well, that and Examinable? It's Sorry! Oust!
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
'Cause you know, wretched hive and all that...
...For we are no longer the nights who say, "Ni!"
We are now the nights who say, "Iki iki iki p'tang ZOOP boing"!
Everyone get ready for nano-gator to come out screaming that Gator is not spyware. Just keep reading. It will happen.
Who wouldn't pay the licensing fee to Santa?
Pay me $699 for the children.
They can change UNIXWare to BOB, and OpenServer to NewtonOS.
Then they can change all their employee's first names to John, ala Buckaroo Bonzai. Darl kind of reminds me of Lord John Whorfin. "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
...does this mean I need to start over again with the "Litigious bastards" thing?
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Including the trademark "UNIX" which doesn't belong to them as part of a new trademark doesn't work. If it did, I'd register "Slashdot Toilet Paper" and "Coca-Cola Tampons" immediately. How about "Chevrolet Mouthwash" or "United Airlines Hemorrhoid Cream". Gee this is fun...
"Iki iki iki p'tang ZOOP boing"! right (I'm guessing it's right)
and misspell Knights as nights?
Did you cut and paste this from somehwere (if so where?)
Or did you do it from memory?
Letter To Iran
AT&T Bell Laboratories was taken.
I'm available to be the new management. I've been telling everyone I know that the Sco management team was smoking crack since this whole thing began. It would be nice to get paid to say it.
Don't you mean hybrid source?
And why the older versions of all these things? Can I get a hey for Apache 2? Mozilla 1.7? Bind 9?
It's like the PA strip: "Power of...shit!" "Form of...Obsolescence!" "Combine to form...a bunch of crap nobody cares about!"
Oh wait, I see what they're hybridizing now...
adam b.
Microsoft can't touch dat!
Is that UNIX Systems Laboratories or Un-Savory Lawyers?
Drop me a line at:
Key ID: 0x54D1D809
They own UNIX, they might as well own every trademark containing "UNIX".
There is nothing wrong with what SCO is doing here.
Why is this a story?