SCO Targets UK Firms

indierockboy writes "It seems that SCO is bringing its dodgy 'Linux licenses' over here to the UK. Vnunet.com reports that SCO's expansion of their 'Linux licensing programme' makes legal action against UK users 'imminent'. Does anyone know if the ongoing cases in the USA can be used as a defense? Since SCO has yet to prove anything..."

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Not news. Moderate article "dumb".

[eddy]

AFAICT this isn't news. This is an old article that's surfaced again, possibly courtesy of Google News.

even funnier..

[danalien]

is that's both articles are by the same author.

Where he reiterates the same FUD. Heck, he only took an old story, modified it to look different, and posted it again.

Smells fishy to me, if you ask me.

SCO v. DaimlerChrysler case is closed

[petrofsky]

As others have pointed out, the Peter Williams article linked to in the article was actually written in January and it's just a vnunet.com fuckup that it's now showing with a December date.

If you want some fresh SCO info, here's the December 21 order that dismissed the remaining claim in SCO's complaint against DaimlerChrysler and thereby closed the case. Here's a write-up that includes information about some rules of Michigan's appeals court.

Re:I don't know...

[Zemran]

The English/Welsh legal system has the idea that the defendant can counter sue and claim all costs if they win. I think that if SCO takes the same course of action in the UK they will very quickly end up bankrupt. The English\Welsh courts also want evidence up front before the case is considered. The Scottish courts will be even harder for them as they have some concept of 'what the average person would understand to be the right thing to do', so it is not just case law but case law with a lot of common sense throw in and SCO logic thrown out. IANAL but I have been involved with a few cases in the UK and learnt to say 'please, sue me :)' because it is so much easier to defend than sue in the UK. In the UK you really want to be sure that you have a valid case or you will end up bankrupt. The courts often award full costs so the person suing has to pay all the defendants costs if the defendant wins, which means that they can counter sue for anything they like at your expense. And before anyone says that I have that one wrong, I have done so and because my lawyer was sure of the case he did not charge me anything because he knew he could get his fee from the costs (that was in Scotland though and England/Wales did not allow lawyers to accept no win no fee until recently, but they do now).