Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux User 398
herrvinny writes "As proprietor of SCO Countdown, I just wanted to remind people that today is the deadline for SCO to sue a Linux user. As everyone should know, SCO, 3 months ago, promised to sue a Linux user within three months. Well, that day has come. Who is SCO going to sue, if it is even going to sue?"
Clarity (Score:5, Informative)
Hey SCO. I use Linux. I install Linux for 100's of companies a year. I failed to pay for any SCO licenses. Please sue me! My email is andrew@nccomp.com.
"The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers [nccomp.com]
Other big news on SCO (Score:5, Informative)
This document describes SCO's case (or lack thereof) in more detail than any other piece of info so far. Lots of stuff for the Linux community to pick apart. Most especially a description of the "millions of lines of code" that they claim they own.
A sign of things to come? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It will be Google but not for the reason you th (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.lehman.com/
http://www.groklaw.net/
Not all 'major users of Linux' are Internet companies...
AT&T Trips Up SCO (Score:5, Informative)
But regardless of whether SCO has already sued a user or is just running a little behind schedule, winning any Linux lawsuits may have just gotten a lot harder for SCO.
Who said so? AT&T -- in 1985.
Check it out for the juce..
Perhaps it will be Lehman Brothers... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Think if they sued AT&T (Score:1, Informative)
No it wouldn't.
"SCO vs. RedHat cannot continue until SCO shows that IBM illegally copied code."
Yes it can. RedHat needs only prove that SCO had no proof that IBM did so. SCO has more-or-less admitted this to the court in the IBM case.
"SCO vs. IBM cannot continue until SCO shows that that they and not Novell in fact own the code."
Not true. SCO has not included any copyright terms. Nor is the Unix copyright been disputed in the Novell case yet.
"SCO vs. Novell cannot continue until SCO proves that AT&T is not allowed to violate what would be their own copyright if Linux in fact does contain System V code."
Not true. SCO vs. Novell is not about the Unix copyrights. It's slander of title case.
Besides all that, you can't create a deadlock in the court system. There are safeguards for that.
Re:I can't believe /. would even post this (Score:3, Informative)
I expect the excuse they will come up with is to say that IBM is a linux user and they are already suing them.
They did just sue some users (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Clarity (Score:5, Informative)
SCO Targets Major Linux User [techweb.com]
November 18, 2003 (2:47 p.m. EST)
By Antone Gonsalves [mailto], TechWeb News
The SCO Group Inc. said Tuesday it would sue a major user of Linux within 90 days, as the company prepared to launch a new legal assault in its claims that the open-source operating system contains the computer maker's copyrighted code.
The Lindon, Utah, company, which has a $3 billion lawsuit pending against IBM, told reporters and analysts in a teleconference that it would begin suing companies that use Linux, but refuse to pay licensing fees to SCO.
"One of things that we will be looking to do is to identify a defendant that we believe will illustrate the nature of the problem," David Boies, managing partner of SCO's law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, said. "I don't want to try and identify that defendant on this call, for obvious reasons . . . but you will be seeing the identification of a significant user that has not paid license fees and is in fact using proprietary and copyrighted material. I think you'll certainly be seeing that within the next 90 days."
Re:Sue ME!!! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:please sue google! (Score:4, Informative)
The reason that the Litigious Bastards [sco.com] are no-longer on top of their rightful google search is that:
http://www.sco.com/ is offline
I'm confident that once they're back (and googlebot realises they are) the searchgods will adjust their rankings accordingly.
Re:SCO license for you, sir? (Score:2, Informative)
Yes - 3%
Undecided - 3%
No - 86%
Unsure - 8%
(at time of my response)
Sure straightened them out
Re:After looking... (Score:2, Informative)
Even if there is code that is exactly the same in both linux and SCO's code, that does not mean that linux copied SCO. A number of other possibilities:
1. SCO copied linux
2. SCO and linux both copied somebody else
3. SCO and linux both arrived at similar implementations of a common standard.
Re:Whom indeed? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Sue ME!!! (Score:2, Informative)
GCC #1534
200 Campus Dr.
Grove City, PA 16127.
And I download copyrighted music, share copyrighted music, and burn copyrighted music from CDs borrowed from the library.
I also jaywalk, speed, and occasionally drink alcohol underage. I've bought cigarettes for a minor. And since I'd get a $10 refund for two hours of paperwork, I won't do my taxes this year.