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SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-say-that dept.

An anonymous reader passes on word of court documents filed by IBM on Friday. The documents contain a copy of a letter, dated 2004, from SCO to IBM's lawyers stating that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO, speculating erroneously that IBM was the principal funder of OSDL, where Torvalds worked at the time. Quoting: "The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, the Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."

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  1. Coincidence? by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    So Darl wanted to silence Eric Raymond?

    Just goes to prove that nobody is 100% evil.

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    1. Re:Coincidence? by mpe · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Trying to silence ESR? Isn't that like the proverbial unstopable rock hitting the unmoveable object? Silencing ESR would require the violation of at least 7 laws of physics :-)

      A pity SCO can't manage to gag themselves. That would keep just about everyone happy!

  2. Re:As if by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, to be fair, if SCO could get ESR and RMS to sit quietly in a room together for any real length of time I would hate them a little less...

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  3. Alternate link to the same story by psaunders · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here.

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  4. SCO wanted to gag Groklaw too by only_human · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SCO Tried to Gag Groklaw in 2004

  5. Re:Beating a Dead Horse by gbobeck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many more stories of SCO being {evil|stupid|malicious} do we need.

    You must be new here.

    Ok, more seriously... IMHO, the real reason why SCO stories are covered so often here on /. is because SCO decided to mess with Linux and the GPL, thus pissing off a very large set of communities (including, but by no means limited to the Linux community, Open Source Developers...). Now, since there is a large number of people who care about the SCO case, there is a demand for articles concerning the case as well as anything related to it. Therefore, SCO stuff gets on the front page.

    The company is almost dead now, let them die alright

    (As of May 1, 2007) They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday...
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  6. Re:Wait.. by goldstein · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a serious insult. I'm sure that the former Iraqi Minister of Information will greatly resent being associated with SCO.