SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] 1252
An anonymous reader writes "News.com
reports that SCO has filed the first (of two) soon to be infamous lawsuits. This one is aimed against car part retailer AutoZone, a multi-billion, Fortune 500 company according to the site. Who's next?" Another reader excerpts from SCO's posted claim: 'AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights.'
Update: 03/03 16:28 GMT by T : njan writes with the news that SCO just announced during their ongoing conference call another lawsuit, this one "to be filed against Daimler-Chrysler, alleging that they are infringing SCO's copyright by using code relating to 'core operating system functionality' of SCO System 5."
Random Company (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Is there a way to DDoS Darl's car? Hmmm...
How to litigate... (Score:5, Funny)
Autozone???? Not quite expected (Score:5, Funny)
Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO.
Go Buy Fuzzy Dice (Score:3, Funny)
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:2, Funny)
Get in the Zone! (Score:2, Funny)
I believe..... (Score:2, Funny)
However, I "believe" that SCO is the biggest bunch of dumbasses around. My evidence for that is really piled high.
proof (Score:4, Funny)
Autozone: what stuff?
SCO: you know
Autozone:
SCO: I could tell you but then i would have to kill you!
The real reason for the suit (at least I think so) (Score:2, Funny)
Get in the zone... Aww - tow - zone! (We have lightbars for your shitty Honda Civic!)
AutoZone's Defense (Score:2, Funny)
Those tatooed knuckles and huge guns of his could make short work of this fight.
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, it's called rush-hour traffic.
Just my luck.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Random Company (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:5, Funny)
Would this qualify as extortion or racketeering?
Neither. Being that it's part of SCO's pump and dump scam I'd call it fraud.
Re:Why this is more FUD (Score:5, Funny)
I see a pattern here.
*rim-shot*
Re:SCO, y'all suck! (Score:4, Funny)
Tricksy little McBridessss. They sued our precioussss!</obGollum>
I wouldn't want to piss off... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Autozone???? Not quite expected (Score:5, Funny)
Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO.
I'm just waiting for "F*** SCO" to appear on the body of a NASCAR racing machine.
Re:Random Company (Score:2, Funny)
My company AardvarkAutos are probably OK then!
portions of our code tended to reside in our libra (Score:3, Funny)
Uh Oh (Score:5, Funny)
They are going to get flamed to death for not using "GNU/Linux"....
Poor litigious bastards!
Re:SCO Quote of the Day (Score:2, Funny)
Since UnixWare is much more powerful, scalable and secure than Linux, customers may replace multiple Linux servers with a single, more powerful UnixWare server.
It's not amazing. It's amusing.
Re:Legal Defense Fund (Score:5, Funny)
They even have a website [autozone.com] where you can do the same thing. Send in some money, help Autozone defeat the evil SCO, get a free prize to boot!
Donate your $$ today!
Re:Ask Jim Geer: SCO's Autozone claims FALSE (Score:5, Funny)
Little SCO (Score:3, Funny)
"Little SCO, youre really lookin fine
Three lawsuits and a make me pay $699
Listen to Darl yackin up now, listen to Darl why-ee-eye-ine
Cmon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out SCO"
Darl, my friend, you better.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is a distraction (Score:1, Funny)
Today, Joe, regular Slashdot reader clicked on his favourite bookmark, read headline "SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone" and emailed his buy-SCO-stock order to his broker without delay...
Later he was lucky to get into SCO's conference call, by that time he already threw away his pre-written astute remarks and only a silent "Thanks, Darl" could leave his lips.
Re:how is this +5 "Interesting"? (Score:2, Funny)
They were probably the first people they found with a big picture ad in Yellow Pages.
AAA Auto Supplies will get caught on the second round.
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:5, Funny)
Not in Slashdotland they don't!
SCOsource licensing revenue (Score:5, Funny)
Lets hope they didn't use Nmap (Score:5, Funny)
AutoZone: How do you know what we are running?
SCO: Ummmm
AutoZone: Shall I repeat?
SCO: Umm....Magic?
-Charlie
(Note: I know that isn't exactly what Nmap is for, but I thought it was funny and topical)
(Note2: Isn't is sad that disclaimers like this must exist on Slashdot for the sarcasm impared?)
what is this 'oil filter' thing, id like to learn (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Further info (Score:4, Funny)
not likely UnixWare, more likely OpenServer. But I don't really know, I'm just guessing based on the fact that lots of people use/used OpenServer for POS/inventory, whereas UnixWare is used for, uh, well, what is UnixWare used for anyway?
ROTF (Score:2, Funny)
Can't wait for Darl's next impromptu sidewalk chat.
Who's the next lawsuit, Darl? Teamsters? Gold's Gym? California Governor's Office?
Re:Ask Jim Geer: SCO's Autozone claims FALSE (Score:5, Funny)
I see. Mr. Greer, meet Mr. Subpoena. Mr. Subpoena, Mr. Greer.
It was, in fact, SCO's activities that 'greased the skids' and allowed the business case for using Linux to be made more easily. That is a story long in the telling; perhaps I'll share it another day.
Yeah, yeah...tell it to the judge, Jim.
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerly,
Darl
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Enter it in a Demolition Derby
I predict ... (Score:5, Funny)
Rough Justice? (Score:2, Funny)
Who's Next? (Score:4, Funny)
Please be Disney....
Please be Disney....
Fight Club... (Score:5, Funny)
The second rule of Linux is... you DO NOT talk about Linux!!!
Third rule of Linux: when SCO yells "stop", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
Take it! Take the offer! (Score:3, Funny)
go interview at microsoft (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why its not odd... (Score:2, Funny)
AZ: Hey IBM, we've been sued... we know your law department is currently handling our Plaintiff..
IBM: Yes, we know that
AZ: So, let's consolidate suits. Since your law department is more familiar with our Plaintiff, we could just pay you to litigate this for us
IBM: Good idea
*thinking*
IBM: You know what, I bet we could have both of these cases consolidated to the court that is trying our current case... wonderful idea
SCO: Oh FUCK....
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:3, Funny)
Jesse James (Score:5, Funny)
Can you imagine him in this new ad campaign?
"I use RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 at West Coast Choppers... because it's just wrong."
Followed by him driving away in his jet powered Toyota Supra, dragging a server behind him.
1Q SCOX (Score:2, Funny)
This lawsuit is only a PR stunt in order to distract attention from today's SCOX 1Q statement. So let me post a short summary:
The SCOX 1Q seems to be highly correlated with SCOX IQ --- i.e. it totally scox.
Re:Ask Jim Geer: SCO's Autozone claims FALSE (Score:4, Funny)
Probably picked the wrong target (Score:5, Funny)
Clerk : Will that be all, sir? Just this replacement brake master cylinder?
Darl : Yes, thank you.
Clerk : May I have your name, sir?
Darl : Darl McBride
Clerk : [typing] Oh... Uh huh... Actually this isn't the right part sir. We do happen to have this special one for you right here, which is EXACTLY what you need.
Darl : Good. Because I really want my brakes to work well.
Clerk : Oh yes sir, this will really do the trick.
On our next episode of "You Picked the Wrong Target", SCO's legal team picks Allied Colonoscope Corporation to make their next example.
And in two weeks on a very special edition of "Wrong Target", Darl suffers a heart attack and discovers and mutters the immortal line "I didn't know defibrillators ran on Linux".
Re:Fight Club... (Score:4, Funny)
Screw that, if it's SCO then you better keep choking them, hitting the, or at least get a stake through the heart. They deserve no mercy.
Re:Autozone shareholders (Score:2, Funny)
It looks like it would have been better for them to short their OWN stock on this news. It's down a buck 27 this morning. Perhaps SCO investors are saying to themselves "Autozone? That's it? Effin Autozone?!?"
Re:How to litigate... (Score:2, Funny)
Next week on Monster Garage... (Score:5, Funny)
-Use of a "family owned" New Jersey Junkyard: 500.00
-2003 BMW with strange smell coming from the trunk and "l337SCO" California Plates: Freebee
Monster garage factoid: We swear our new sponsor deal with autozone had nothing to do with the making of this episode. we swear.
Re:Great info on AutoZone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A friend of mine works at an autozone (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fight Club... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How to litigate... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:5, Funny)
It must have been a delicate decision (Score:5, Funny)
/. UID: AuT0Z0Ne (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If you want to help AutoZone out... (Score:5, Funny)
...and let the poor guys running AutoZone's webserver decipher the symbolism of being sued by SCO and watching their store locator database server catch on fire in the same morning. Very subtle!
Re:Great info on AutoZone (Score:5, Funny)
I think crack dealers should use this strategy... "If you buy from someone other than me, I'll turn you into the cops for buying drugs".
this is what will really happen... (Score:2, Funny)
jesse, meet sco, guys who wanna take money away from you.
sick em jesse. yer in the 'zone.
Re: Free speech (Score:2, Funny)
Same we do every night, McBride: claim that it's outside the U.S. Constitution!
Re:"The court of public opinion" is a non-issue (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, that would be Rod Roddy. former announcer for The Price Is Right. He was always a little flamboyant with his clothes [buzzgrinder.com].
This reminds me of... (Score:4, Funny)
"Man Sticks Out Tongue between the bars of Wolf Cage at Local Zoo - bloody mess ensues".
I wish (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Excommunicate Darl! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, you said Mormon, not Moron. Well, I wouldn't know about that bit...
no, that's not it either... (Score:5, Funny)
SCO should looked at like Carthage; not only should they be annhilated, but the ground out of which they sprung should be salted over so that nothing else will ever come from it again. The more companies that think that SCO's business plan is a good idea, the less legitimate companies with legitimate claims will be able to seek relief, while more companies will be inhibited from doing useful saleable work. Nuke 'em till they glow, and then nuke 'em again, just to be sure.
Sssssssh... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't give SCO any more business ideas. I hear they're stocking some powerful shit. Though I guess they're too busy stealing from their own inventory to actually sell something.
Kjella
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:2, Funny)
Depends if the "owners" of Unix are buffoons or not. If they are, its less cool, and more annoying.
Sweet, sweet closure (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Darl McBride, CEO of SCO, was unexpectedly killed yesterday when his vehicle's braking system inexplicably malfunctioned on I-40 yesterday...
Re:Sweet, sweet closure (Score:2, Funny)
NO NO NO! (Score:1, Funny)
- Darl
Conference Highlights (Score:5, Funny)
Some guy: "Sooner or later this case will be decided upon by a court, and what will happen if at the end of all this it turns out you are wrong? there will be a lot of angry customers. Will you refund their money?"
Darl: "Well, errrr, we wo... umm, the way I see it is that, errr, well, "
and:
Some person: "Can you comment on the outstanding lawsuit against you"
Darl: "There are currently no lawsuits against SCO..."
Some Person: "One sec.... Australian company.... called CyberNight/Night... I have the information here."
Darl: "uhhh, ermm, ahhh, ermm
Re:DaimlerChrysler next target (Score:3, Funny)
This is the final proof of Darl McBride's madness. DaimlerChrysler?! Does he have any idea how much trouble he's asking for? If McBride ever followed any of those "I drove 65 mph in a 25 mph zone, the wrong way down a one way street, and my 4-year-old son was unbelted in the front passenger seat, and he died in the crash because your airbag deployed too forcefully" lawsuits, he'd realize that the Chrysler Group has the meanest, most ornery, rabid pit bull lawyers to ever take a bar exam. And that's just the American half!
Oh god this is funny, Autozone and Benz? omg (Score:1, Funny)
Hey Darl don't fuck with the Germans you know they are good at fighting. Go after a French company if anything......might explain ev1 then "We know you have this code of ours that we won't tell you what is but we'll sue you if you don't buy our license" GivesheadSurfer "ok we surrender!"
Script of conference call (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why this is more FUD (Score:2, Funny)
BRREEEEEEET!
I'm sorry, sir. I'm going to have to ask you to hand over your slashdot ID for violation of slashdot civil code 739395, "using the word 'loose' in its correct grammatical context."
Re:Uh, shut your mouth! (Score:4, Funny)
Gee, hmmm, I don't know. That's a tough bargain to beat, all for just a single vote. Would that truck be fully stocked, or are we talking about just the truck?
Re:Great info on AutoZone (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great info on AutoZone (Score:3, Funny)
Let's see.....phone book, need to make a call, right...A's...yes.....Anderson....Applebees...Ass
Bingo.
At the Jeep dealership... (Score:2, Funny)
Service: Well, well. MrMcBride. Why how are you? What can I do for you today?
Darl: Uh, I need brakes and my engine starts off sluggish. Whats your schedule like today?
Service: Hmmmm let me see . Yeah, we can fit you in right now. Hows that?
Darl Fine. Brakes gonna be a problem?
Service: Why, no problem at all. We'll just pop over to the AutoZone across the street and get their... Managers _Special_ Brakes.
Darl: Uhhh Ummmm ok, I guess. What about the engine? Need a tune up or something?
Service: Hmmmmmm . Looks as though you are not using original Jeep parts either. Cracked block. Warped camshaft. Mr. McBride, have you been putting any Alternative Parts on here?
Darl: Uhhhhh, no why do you ask?
Service: No matter. We have just the parts for you. See you at... six (6 6) Darl.
Just then dark clouds appear and we see a fade away shot of frightened Darl against a blood red sky, the serviceman transforming slowly into a minion of Satan. Swirls of orange and red light piercing through an ominous sky.
One more day in the life of Lindon UT -- the day Hell came to town.
The Twilight Zone.
Re:"The court of public opinion" is a non-issue (Score:2, Funny)
Ahem - here in the United States, even judges don't wear black robes with "Judge" embroidered on it :-b
However, a few judges do wear orange jumpsuits with the word
on itJust wait... (Score:3, Funny)
"Well, if it ain't Mr. McBride. What can I do fer ya today?"
"I need some parts."
"Well, we can offer ya some parts, but ya gotta sign this here license agreement saying that you will not go to any other parts provider, and that you give us written proof that you never have. Otherwise, we'll sue you fer using our store."
Re:Probably picked the wrong target (Score:3, Funny)
Like, maybe, a Mercedes?
Obligiatory Babylon 5 quote (Score:2, Funny)
- Londo Molari
(Paraphrased a little). So SCO is now suing Novell, RedHat, IBM, AutoZone, and Chrysler. Then there's this matter of that Austrailian company suing SCO. Not to mention the German court case. These SCO boys are real f'd up.
Re:Excommunicate Darl! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"The court of public opinion" is a non-issue (Score:2, Funny)
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
When asked if he would honestly fight against these opponents, mr. McBride responded "Yes, after speaking with my counsels, the lawyers at Boies, we've determinated that these opponent would be perfect for me to initially test my skills. I applied my strategic expertise to the world of boxing, and these were natural matches, considering that these boxers are retired and I've been working out for 6 weeks".
Re:not just a Linux user (Score:2, Funny)
Huh? Did I wake up in Bizarro world this morning?
Re:Uh, shut your mouth! (Score:3, Funny)