SCO Group Hires Boies After All

pitr256 writes "So it seems the SCO Group has decided to hire infamous Anti-Microsoft lawyer David Boies after all. This comes upon reversal of the SCO Group statement according to Chief Executive Darl McBride of having not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors. Now, CNet News is reporting that not only is SCO Group investigating the Linux vendors but that it is also going to investigate Windows, Mac OS X, and the BSD derivatives. So if your technology can't win on price and performance, break out the lawyers and sue everyone. Does anyone else see this as the end of SCO (Caldera) like I do? I certainly will never use anything from them ever again."

Of course they hire boies

[gazbo]

They are, after all, not interested in girls.

Well, good

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone else see this as the end of SCO (Caldera) like I do? I certainly will never use anything from them ever again.

I'm sure they are all broken up over the fact that you won't be installing any more warez copies of SCO anymore.

dyslexic

[greechneb]

my guess is they reversed the old quote:

"Instead of if you can't beat them, join them"

"They view it as if you can't join them, beat them"

question

[tps12]

I certainly will never use anything from them ever again.

Does that include Linux?

What about BE OS and Apple ][e?

[Dolemite_the_Wiz]

I hear they are ripe for a lawsuit from SCO?
(/sarcasm)

Dolemite
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Re:Danger of "defensive" legal costs

[SpazAttak]

Perhaps it's their version of an economic stimulus package

Sue everybody on the way down....

[idiotnot]

...and hope you can salvage a few dollars for your shareholders after the Chapter 7 filing.

You could call it "Plan Be."

Didn't Caldera already sue Microsoft and lose?

Whats To Worry About?

[Steve Cox]

Lets look at this guys track record:

Defending Napster: Failure
Representing Al-Gore: Failure
Anti-trust Against Microsoft: Failure

I'm shaking in my boots :)

Steve.

poor SCO

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't they know that if they broadcast their IP they might be subject to attack?

Re:Sig File Patent Infringement

[penguinblotter]

Smithers: "Mr. Burns, there is a small Linux vendor trying to make money in sector 7G."

Mr. Burns: "Release the hounds."

In other news:

[llamafresh]

Caldera sues itself over code contained in OpenLinux and UnitedLinux distributions!

David Boies of course loses the case.

we're still not sure WHAT that means though... film at 11

Re:Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot

[nomadic]

If they win:

Slashdot poster: You, sirs, have soiled the UNIX world with your money grubbing!
SCO: one million, one million one hundred, one million two hundred, oh sorry did you say something?
Slashdot poster: I SAID--
SCO: One second. Bob! You want to bring those bags over here, the ones with the dollar signs on the front? Alright, go on.
Slashdot poster: Your business will suffer because of the bad will in the open source community!
SCO: Are you a SCO user?
Slashdot poster: Well, no, I use linux.
SCO: So the court decision means you won't buy an operating system that you weren't going to buy in the first place?
Slashdot poster: But previously I would never buy SCO. After your court action, however, I'l never EVER buy SCO.
SCO: Riiight. I hope you'll excuse me, I have to stop at the Mercedes dealership before they close. That nice security guard over there will show you out.

Re:What a lying sack of SHIT!

[jpetts]

How do you spell: "Lying scak of shit?" D A R L Mc B R I D E

Err, shouldn't that be: D R A L Mc B R I D E>

How very ironic.

[elbuddha]

From the CNET story:

• "We've been looking at this for months. Every time we turn over a stone, there's something there," McBride said. "If you pull down (Mac) OS X you'll see a lot of copyright postings that point back to Unix Systems Laboratories, which is what we hold."

From Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix [oreilly.com] by Marshall Kirk McKusick:

• The University's suit claimed that USL had failed in their obligation to provide due credit to the University for the use of BSD code in System V as required by the license that they had signed with the University. If the claim were found to be valid, the University asked that USL be forced to reprint all their documentation with the appropriate due credit added, to notify all their licensees of their oversight, and to run full-page advertisements in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine notifying the business world of their inadvertent oversight.
  ...
  The result was that three files were removed from the 18,000 that made up [BSD 4.4] Networking Release 2, and a number of minor changes were made to other files. In addition, the University agreed to add USL copyrights to about 70 files, although those files continued to be freely redistributed.
  ...
  The lawsuit settlement also stipulated that USL would not sue any organization using 4.4BSD-Lite as the base for their system.

So, in other words, Mr. McBride - PPPPHHHTTTT!!

Oh, and might want to make sure you are providing due credit to the University of California at Berkeley before you cast the first stone, eh?

Re:System V init

[Thrakkerzog]

I told you BSD style init scripts were better! :-)

On the bar or drinking at it?

[DysonSphere]

"Boies is noted in the computing industry for working on the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft and for defending music-sharing site Napster. He also represented Al Gore in the Florida vote-counting controversy during the 2000 presidential elections. "

With a track record like that, we don't have a thing to worry about...