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IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Sooooooo... by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do I get my $699 back?

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  2. Lawyer Joke by ch-chuck · · 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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  3. No-one is beyond recovery... by jd · · 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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