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SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit

Posted by michael on from the your-chocolate-ration-has-been-increased dept.

yeremein writes "SCO says it has found a new smoking gun in its battle with IBM. This 'bombshell' was not found in a court document; instead it came from a reporter's interview at SCOforum. The scoop? 'SCO alleges that since 2001, AIX has contained code for which IBM does not have a license. Moreover SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails in which IBMers acknowledge this shortcoming.' With the announcement comes a hefty boost in SCO's stock price." SCO is also going to bundle its worthless linux licenses with its Unix operating systems.

4 of 440 comments (clear)

  1. Farbeit for me to question /. groupthink by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But either SCO is completely delusional or there are really a lot of cloned technologies derived directly from SCO's old Unix codebase.

    And the funny thing is that every time new evidence comes out, it gets shouted down here at /. as well as on message boards around the web, but it just goes into the heap of evidence that SCO has against IBM, et al. In a PR sense, SCO is losing badly, but in a purely legal sense, they are kicking the shit out of the IP infringers.

  2. Re:What would be the likely impact on Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rotflmao!

  3. IBM will buy SCO by mslinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    And after that, they'll buy Novell. Then, they'll lay claim to the Linux kernel itself and threaten to shutdown kernel development work with patent suits.

  4. Re:Forbes doesn't like you. by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, perfect example. Somebody rated the parent this post as a "Troll". This is *exactly* the mindset that the Forbes article referred to.