SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit 444
An anonymous reader writes "News.com.com reports that the SCO Group has significantly widened its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM,
adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case." There's also another story discussing the copyright claims.
You'd think... (Score:5, Funny)
Old News (Score:0, Funny)
Just a thought. (Score:2, Funny)
It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
My suggestion... How about we do as they say and buy them out just to shut them up.
I propose that the mods of Slashdot start a fund called the "Buy out SCO so they can shut the fsck up" fund. If we all paypal a couple of dollars into the pot, we can use it in order to help buy out SCO so that we can go on as usual without all this SCO gibberish.
An added benefit would be to get Slashdot Subscription pages for every dollar we donate to the cause. That will make some of the more geeky of us choose to help. Not like we wouldn't help anyway :).
Of course, when SCO loses their case, it will become significantly easier to buy the company since their stock will be worth about 1/10th of a cent. At that point, us Slashdot users will be able to make McBride our own personal bitch, and everyone will be happy still.
Hurry though! Before Microsoft chooses to buy out SCO before we can.
Just a thought. Continue as normal.
Another? (Score:5, Funny)
Go SCO! (Score:4, Funny)
Let's make SCO the largest company on the planet and show those boys from Redmond how Windoze is buggy and insecure! Let's sell more SCO-compliant Linux boxes! Go Linux! Go SCO!
New Additions to SCO's Legal Team (Score:5, Funny)
Stimpy: "Hey, Ren, if we keep piling things onto the suit, we'll never lose because it'll go on for ever."
Ren: "Stimpy! you're a genious!"
Stimpy: "All we have to do is keep finding investors to underwrite the suits, because if SCO runs out of money we'll have to find someone else to represent."
Ren: "So geet back to woork, you eediot!"
courts (Score:5, Funny)
Extent of copyrights (Score:1, Funny)
Oh no! This message is infringing... good thing I posted AC!
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Go SCO! (Score:4, Funny)
It's well know that kernel of the Linux operating system was written by young consultant Darl McBride while in college. He left it on the FTP server only to see some Finnish jerks download it and rename it. This chart undoubtedly proves that SCO has a stable position in the market and that Wall Street rewards young entrepreneurs with the guts to go against big guys like IBM [yahoo.com], even though Slashdot has a heard mentality and would support IBM on any issue.
Re:courts (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, given the amount of acrimony being directed at SCO, I think it will end up more like this [nukees.com].
Heh. Lawbot 0.92 - so you know it has to be an Open Source project.
Darls claims IBM kicked his dog (Score:5, Funny)
wtf (Score:3, Funny)
This is not McDonalds or Burger King where you can order a side of something with your lawsuit... Sheesh...
Re:Extent of copyrights (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Extent of copyrights (Score:2, Funny)
By the way, you should really acknowledge your sources [theonion.com].
Re:New Additions to SCO's Legal Team (Score:5, Funny)
Darl: So, what are going to do tonight, Brain?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Darl, try to sue IBM!
Darl: But we did that already, and we're losing!
Brain: Don't worry, Darl, this time we're going to make it. Using our copyrighted Lunix code, I have created an automatic evidence generator!
***Brain sits down at odd-looking contraption, and types in "cat
***Contraption begins spitting paper.
Brain: Ok, Darl, now you go take this evidence down to legal, and the judge doesn't understand technology, so he'll be impressed at all the evidence we've gathered.
Darl: Okey dokey, Brain, here I go!
***Darl picks up stack of paper, which is covered with vaguely code-like control characters and things, and carries it out door.
***Fade to black
Big scrolling letters appear: In next week's episode, Darl and the Brain try to cope with the discovery that their claimed Lunix code is actually a screenshot from the Ancient Unix version of Nethack - be sure to tune in!
Not even Doctor Evil... (Score:1, Funny)
Here's a scary thought: What if it was Martha Stewart that had exposed her tits during the Superbowl? Imaging 600 million people all hurling at once.
News Flash (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, this just in...SCO has just upped the lawsuit agianst IBM to 100 trillion dollars...
(Back at SCO headquarters)
Darl: MUAHAHAHAHAHA
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Ahh, the Joseph Goebels method... (Score:3, Funny)
Ye Gods, hasn't this farce gone on long enough?
But it has this wierd attraction, I see SCO in the posts... ..must resist.. ..overwhelming urge.. ..to.. ..repeat myself...
Re:[OT] The court hearing today (Score:5, Funny)
What that IBM lawyer did is an outrage.
I urge every Slashdotter with an ounce of human decency to donate via paypal to PETCF (People for the Ethical Treatment of Courtroom Floors) today.
No courtroom floor should ever have to be subjected to that sort of filth.
Re:In related news.com (Score:5, Funny)
They HAD to, you know (Score:5, Funny)
They calculated the projected future losses caused by ill will generated in potential customers, losses from counter-lawsuits, contempt of court fees for frivolous lawsuits and fraud, etc, and the previous $3 billion they were asking for wasn't enough to cover it.
Re:Supreme Irony in the Making (Score:3, Funny)
Darl McEvil (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.awtrey.com/darlmcevil/ [awtrey.com]
Yet Another Smart Comment! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just a thought. (Score:2, Funny)
A SCO story (Score:1, Funny)
Best part of the hearing... (Score:5, Funny)
Heise replied (not sure of the exact quote, transcript isn't available yet) "As for HP, there is a fundamental difference in that they [hp.com] haven't [hp.com] said [sourceforge.net] they [sourceforge.net] are [sourceforge.net] contributing [sourceforge.net] to Linux". Dave Marriott, counsel for IBM at the hearing, replied that HP has, in fact, contributed to Linux.
Talk about not having done your homework...
Jay (=
Re:[OT] The court hearing today (Score:5, Funny)
REUTERS, 3/1/04:
In a stunning reversal today, SCO (NASDAQ SCOX) has announced that due to a 'minor technical error', it has been looking at the wrong source tree all along.
"Funny enough, we came across the actual copyrights in the code headers, and discovered it wasn't Linux at all! We were kinda confused ourself when we saw 300 million lines of violating code in a piece of software that only has 30 million lines of code or so, but it all started making since once we realized we were actually looking at a copy of the Windows NT kernel!", Darl McBride told reporters on Tuesday.
"This represents a complete shift in strategy for us. We have bigger fish to fry, this time. Incidentally, Linus might want to take a look at this too - one of the main reasons we were confused for so long was the amount of Linux code mixed in with ours."
A representative from IBM told the press, "We completely understand the confusion, and look forward to working together with SCO to remedy the situation."
Steve Balmer was unavailable for comment, but sources close to the Microsoft (NYSE MSFT) chairman report him as having said, "Oh, FUCK".
God, please grant me just this one wish before I die... just let this come true.
SCO.com copyright page does not exist! (Score:5, Funny)
<defense style=chewbaca>
Hey! Look over here!
Browse to sco.com [sco.com] and mouse over the Company nav menu at the top and select the bottom entry for "Open Letter on Copyrights" and note that it doesn't exist.
Therefore you must acquit!!
</defense>
How Darl found the infringed code... (Score:2, Funny)
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmmbb.
And so an angel appeard to Darl and said, "System V code is buried deep in the Kernel 2.4 tree.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
Darl McBride translated the code,
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
And Darl thus spoke "I have over a million lines of code that IBM has stolen from me. I will translate the code for our attorneys and they will get our money from IBM"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmbb.
But the attorneys lost the code on the way to the courtroom and asked Darl to tranlate again. Darl became very angry.
Darl said "God is angry because we have not shown the million lines of code to the world and has taken the code from me. He will not let me translate the code again. To appease God, we must file a copyright infringment against IBM instead!"
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmb
IBM grew weary of Darls claims and said "but if you want to show us the code you think we stole, just download it from any number of freely available sources"
Smart smart smart smart smaaarrrrt
The fun continues, ad nauseum.
Re:Go SCO! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:2, Funny)
DO WHILE exec_stock EXISTS
IF new_stock_price lt old_stock_price
THEN sco.lawsuit.initiate_new(random_no)
LOOP
Almost there... (Score:2, Funny)
My favourite article headline.. (Score:5, Funny)
SCO files for temporary restraining order against reality [siliconvalley.com]
Through the looking glass (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Question (Score:3, Funny)
Because there aren't enough of them to warrant their own area.
Wait, that can't be right....
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:5, Funny)
Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?
Re:You'd think... (Score:3, Funny)
Ooo...ooo...I will. I realize now that we must do everything to support our current patent/copyright system, so I can cash in on the NEW pet rock I made with a COMPUTER on the INTERNET.
Re:Almost there... (Score:2, Funny)
Parent's Nethack reference (Score:2, Funny)
You are suing IBM in a large courtroom,
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just a thought. (Score:2, Funny)
The mind just boggles...
What happened to Darl??? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, this dreaded sickness attacks increasingly useless technology executives. It manifests itself by eating their soul, and as the infection spreads, it releases large amounts of noxious gas, resulting in a foul odor and a "puffy" or "bloated" appearance. Medical scientists believe that frequent contact with attorneys, tape worms, or other parasites may increase the risk of contracting Philipkahnosis.
Re:You are right and you are wrong (Score:2, Funny)
Darl: Larry, you go mash on that keyboard and create us some "evidence" for the case. Curley, think up some big numbers to tell the press, the bigger the better. Moe, go tell our investors we're gonna make $5 billion off this thing, and we're not gonna stop there.
3 Stooges: Yes boss!
Cue zany antics.
It's our birthday, we'll *gollum* if we wants to (Score:4, Funny)
April 12, 2005: I get a birthday present when the judge tells SCO to go f*** itself with a rusty shovel.
"We rule in favor of the Defendant, and order SCO to pay an assload of money to everyone affiliated with Linux development in any way, shape or form. Furthermore, SCO sucks, and should, in the Court's opinion, find a suitable location to perform sexual acts upon itself with poorly-maintained garden equipment. And on part 2, subsection B, I find SCO in contempt of court, and therefore must pay damages to the court in the form of either a fully-trained attack monkey, or two nice dress shirts."
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:3, Funny)
He'll just condense it down to, "Experienced CEO seeking challenging position at tech company."
Why does it seem the bigger the screwup, the more it counts as experience?
Re:Bluff bluff bluff (Score:3, Funny)