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SCO Amends Novell Complaint

rm69990 writes "According to Groklaw, SCO now seeks to amend their complaint against Novell. SCO says it 'seeks leave to file a Second Amended Complaint in significant part in consideration of the counterclaims that Novell asserted in its Answer and Counterclaims.' SCO now accuses Novell of infringing SCO's copyrights by distributing SUSE Linux, of breaching a non-compete clause between the two companies, and SCO is also asking for specific performance forcing Novell to turn over the Unix copyrights to SCO. So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz."

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  1. SCO still exists? by thparker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't this over by now? The last time I saw a SCO article here, it seemed that even the judge was sick of their nonsense. Is there anyone still taken in by this charade?

  2. Re:How can they keep doing this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Tell me this -> How are they making a profit today?"

    They have a secret ad-revenue sharing agreement with /.

  3. Second Amendment Complaint? by Roj+Blake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watch out, they have finally gone completely nuts and are going to start shooting!

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  4. Second Amendment by two_socks · · Score: 4, Funny

    "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

    That's pretty off base, even for SCO.

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  5. Not my guns! by rharder · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Second Amendment complaint? Now they want to take my unix AND my guns!

  6. SCO Needs to do more of this... by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the complaint (via Groklaw): V. PRAYER FOR RELIEF

    Wherefore, Plaintiff SCO prays this Court enter judgment for SCO and against Novell:

    Although I doubt God will be listening, as he's upgrading his SUSE Linux...

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  7. In Corporate America... by thej1nx · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Corporate America, criminals/conmen sue you .... oh wait! bugger!

  8. Err, uh .. what? by thaerin · · Score: 4, Funny

    "So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz."

    I can see there collectively being a large amount of heads exploding after trying to make sense of that one. I'm thinking SCO has nothing to do with Santa Cruz and more to do with SChizOphrenia because they've seem to have lost touch with reality.

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  9. Re:Wha?!? by archevis · · Score: 5, Funny
    What, you accusing SCO of not making any sense...?!?!?

    You watch your mouth, young man!

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  10. ESR? by WWWWolf · · Score: 4, Funny
    21. SuSE's implementation of ESR

    I know Debian has "Virtual RMS", but I think SuSE is really going weird if they implement stuff like this. Weird syslog messages from SuSE boxes:

    Jan 4 06:47:45 localhost esr: gunning some processes
  11. Re:Luser Pays. Support your original claim. Re:Wha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Cases like this show the wisdom of the "Looser pays" philosophy of British common law.

    If the Brits really had "looser pays" then the Spice Girls would have to pay for every case in Britain. I think you mean "loser pays."

  12. ELF again. Sheesh. by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    ELF again. Sheesh. How many times do we have to explain that to them?

    They must not be into Dungeons & Dragons I guess.
    Listen up..Elves come in a large variety of races, and each has its own nuances. They are here described in alphabetical order: Dargonesti, Dimernesti, Drow, Gray Elves, High Elves, Kagonesti, Qualinesti, Silvanesti, Valley Elves, Wild Elves, and Wood Elves.

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  13. Re:How can they keep doing this? by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, remember those zombie films where a hapless victim unloads a clip of ammunition into a walking corpse, and the corpse stumbles a bit and falls down, only to rise back up and continue pursuing said hapless victim?

    Reload.

  14. Where are the Monty Python when you need them ? by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is there anyone still taken in by this charade?


    Man in suit of armor walks in and hits SCO over the head with a dead chicken.

    Dear Sir,

    I would like to protest in the strongest possibe terms about your SCO sketch. I have been a village idiot all my life and your Darl Mc Bride character is giving village idiots everywhere a bad name.

    Sincerely,

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  15. Duel it out by Thyme3333 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The two headquarters are within 10 miles of each other (Sco in Lindon, Utah and Novell in Provo, Utah)...why don't they just meet in the middle and duel it out man to man?