IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case

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IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 10, 2006 @08:15AM from the we-who-may-be-about-to-die dept.

OSS_ilation writes "In an interview over at SearchOpenSource.com, IP attorney Thomas Carey shoots down SCO's cases against IBM and Novell, but predicts that SCO will fight a losing battle to its last. IT directors shouldn't worry about SCO Group's latest sallies in its legal war on Linux vendors IBM Corp. and Novell Inc., Clarey says, and explains why SCO has no case, predicts the open source legal fields of battle for 2006 and discusses SCO's claims against Novell. Carey chairs the Business Practice Group of Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, an intellectual property law practice in Boston, Mass." Groklaw, as always, has additional details and commentary on this.

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Re:Everybody knows that... by Chapter80 · 2006-01-10 08:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Is "SCO has no case" News for nerds?
hint for moderators: I'm not bashing the editors - I'm bashing SCO!
And I hate to do it, too by Benanov · 2006-01-10 08:23 · Score: 4, Funny

SCO went after, with lawsuits, Linux customers before. Do you foresee this happening again?

Carey: This might happen again. Hitler fought World War II until the Allies had nearly overrun his bunker. As long as investors are willing to provide the cash, SCO will sue because that is their business model. They will likely go after smaller companies as a means of controlling the cost of litigation.

Godwin!
Sooooooo... by bobdotorg · 2006-01-10 08:28 · Score: 5, Funny

How do I get my $699 back?

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Clearly Clarey is not Carey by digitaldc · 2006-01-10 08:36 · Score: 2, Funny

IT directors shouldn't worry about SCO Group's latest sallies in its legal war on Linux vendors IBM Corp. and Novell Inc., Clarey says...

SCO is fighting this losing battle for what? Press coverage?

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I read it more along the lines of... by hackwrench · 2006-01-10 08:37 · Score: 2, Funny

What's their excuse this time?
Lawyer Joke by ch-chuck · 2006-01-10 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Darl could call up HandelontheLaw.com - if you've ever heard his radio show the main point is for Bill Handel to tell you you have no case. He Loves That. Anyway, here's a joke from Bill Handel's web site:

In a recent FDA study, the United States government research physicians who were conducting studies on test drugs, administered weekly doses of Viagra to an equal number of doctors and lawyers.

While the majority of the doctors achieved enhanced sexual prowess, the lawyers simply grew taller.

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No-one is beyond recovery... by jd · 2006-01-10 09:07 · Score: 5, Funny
Welcome to this meeting of IPaholics Anonymous, where people share their experience, strength and hope in their battle against their addiction to Intellectual Property lawsuits. Here are the twelve steps, adapted from other recovery programs.
1. We admitted we were powerless against Open Source initiatives, that our contempt for common folk and peasents had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a sharing methodology greater than ourselves could restors us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will, lives and FTP address to Freshmeat, as we understand Freshmeat.
4. Made a searching and moral inventory of what sourcecode we actually have and own.
5. Admitted to ourselves, Slashdot and Richard Stallman the exact nature of our licensing errors.
6. Were entirely ready to let the OSI and the FSF remove these defects of proprietaryness.
7. Humbly asked /dev/null to remove our closed licensing agreements.
8. Made a list of all people we'd totally ripped off and became willing to send upgrades to them all.
9. Directly sent their IT departments the necessary patches, except when to do so would break something else.
10. Continued to grep license files and when they were closed, promply GPL them.
11. Sought through LinuxFest and Slashdot to improve our concious contact with the F/LOSS meme as we understood F/LOSS, asking only for Linus Torvald's will and the processing power to carry that out.
12. Having had a sourcecode awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive proprietary coders and to practice good coding in all our affairs.
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Extra bonus points by Weaselmancer · 2006-01-10 09:10 · Score: 2, Funny

...for successfully using "boondoggle" in a tech based forum. You scallawag! ;^)

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rediculous.
SLSHDOT.ORG by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-10 09:17 · Score: 1, Funny

Has anybody else noticed when you type in "slshdot.org" vise "slashdot.org" the first link is to scosupport.com?
Re:Refunds? by Hasai · 2006-01-10 09:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Oh, now that's just too funny.

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You are kidding, right?

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O.K.; look at it this way: SCO eventually loses it's case, and the court tosses the firm to the lions, aka Novell, Red Hat, and IBM, who promptly reduce SCO to a smoking hole in the ground.

Said licensees come shuffling up to previously described smoking hole and whine "I want my money back."

Think they'll get a response?

}XD

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Lawyers and IT - true story by Flying+pig · 2006-01-10 10:15 · Score: 3, Funny

I got phoned up at work once by an acquaintance who was a commercial lawyer in a large corporation.
"I've been told we're going to sue NEC. Who are NEC?"
Me: "A large Japanese computer manufacturer. Why?"
"Apparently our new system doesn't work."
Me: "That sounds like software. NEC make hardware. Doesn't the hardware work?"
"Apparently the software supplier went bust, so we're suing NEC"
Me: "That doesn't make sense."
"The thing is, have they got a lot of money?"
Me: "I imagine they have huge amounts of money."
"Oh good, that'll keep us busy for a while then."
The reaction of lawyers everywhere.

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