Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code 587
An anonymous reader writes "A NewsForge story [part of OSDN, like Slashdot] says a court ruling by Judge Brooke C. Wells in the SCO Group vs. IBM intellectual property lawsuit amounting to 'show me the code' was released today in the form of a nine-page document [PDF link]. For a change, the SCO Group had no comment, because Judge Wells told it not to issue any. The judge said SCO is to provide and identify all specific lines of code IBM is alleged to have contributed to Linux from either AIX or Dynix, provide and identify all specific lines of code from Unix System V from which IBM's contributions from AIX or Dynix are alleged to be derived, and provide and identify all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to."
Yay..... (Score:-1, Funny)
Finally (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:4, Funny)
put up and shut up (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time...
Lines of code belonging to SCO (Score:4, Funny)
{
and so is this:
int i;
New poll idea: (Score:5, Funny)
(*) More countersuits
(*) They won't
(*) Darl ends up sharing a cell with CowboyNeal
In reality (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:5, Funny)
next excuse (Score:5, Funny)
Darl: "we were working on our taxes and 2 days is *so* not long enough to make all of this up"
Re:Lines of code belonging to SCO (Score:5, Funny)
Line numbers? grep is your friend (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally we'll see an end to this FiaSCO. ;) (Score:5, Funny)
SCO is already "oblivious", now if we can get them into oblivion... that would be nice.
Re:Lines of code belonging to SCO (Score:5, Funny)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
So, basically the judge said... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Start Counting... (Score:5, Funny)
"...now SCO has 45 days in which to produce the offending lines of code"
That allows SCO to present their evidence on April 1. I like the way this judge thinks!
Re:SCOCKS (Score:2, Funny)
That way when you pronounce thier company's stock SCOX, it sounds like "scocks"
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
In the investors' telecast this morning, darl pronounced it as both "S-C-O" and "SKO". Also, there was some guy i couldn't identify who kept calling darl "daarrell."
Re:The best part... (Score:2, Funny)
well, you will have to wait 45 days...
And so SCO sits at the keyboards... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
I say "Ess-See-Owe" although based on this latest news I think "Ess-Owe-Ell" is more appropriate.
Re:IBM's memos... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:1, Funny)
And just when you thought it couldn't get any uglier for SCO, you come to find out it's a polka.
Re:Quick Question... (Score:1, Funny)
It's like a scene from Hollywood (Score:4, Funny)
So I see SCO coming in with a 3 x 5 card and IBM coming in with bags and bags of info as if from a scene in "Miracle on 34th Street" . The judge rules SCO is some kind of legal pyramid scheme and IBM is a real software company. Christmas is saved!
Upstaging SCO in a very public way (Score:5, Funny)
Then, sit back and watch the fallout.
Oh yeah, and you may also want to have a paramedic on hand to revive Darl, who will undoubtedly have had a heart attack by this time.
Re:Quick Question... (Score:2, Funny)
SCO on Fox TV? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry, but I fail to see the advantage of getting SCO onto a stupid Spike TV show [spiketv.com]?
Wait... maybe that's what this whole thing is... maybe it's some newfangled Reality TV Series! That would explain a heluva lot.
Tonight, after Surviving Average Joe in Eden is 'SCO: Litigious Bastards'. Follow the life of Darl and his cronies as he sees just how far he can push Big Blue and the tech industry at large! Tonight at 9!
Betcha FOX is behind it...
Blockwars [blockwars.com]: free, multiplayer, head to head, Tetris like game
Re:The funniest thing is... (Score:5, Funny)
I hope we get pictures.
Netcraft confirms... (Score:5, Funny)
Netcraft confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO UNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time developers Simon Baldwin and Andrew Sharpe only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO UNIX project leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO UNIX. How many users of OpenServer are there? Let's see. The number of SCO UNIX versus OpenServer posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenServer users. SCO UNIX posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenServer posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO UNIX. A recent article put SCO UNIX distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SCO UNIX users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked SCO lawsuits, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
So basically (Score:3, Funny)
"Put up and Shut up"
I like it!
Re:I shall say ziz only once (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Weird behaviour of stock though (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Court: SCO made "good faith effort" to comp (Score:5, Funny)
I hope IBM delivers the code to SCO in the form of a truckload of paper printed in a greek font.
Re:Quick Question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Horrible title... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I shall say ziz only once (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
I've never heard of anyone who has actually used one of their products.
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:5, Funny)
In a conclusive test of the Intelligence subsystem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Start Counting... (Score:4, Funny)
APRIL FOOLS!
Trouble is, they've been building the joke far too long, and whatever the punchline I doubt it's going to be all that funny.
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Yeeeeeha! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm so tired of this. I hope to soon read that Daryl, finally looked into the abyss and saw the hopelessness of his position and put a gun in his mouth and did planet earth a favor.
Please Daryl, spare us the agony and do yourself in already!
Re:Quick Question... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The funniest thing is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Faith? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New poll idea: (Score:3, Funny)
SCO: SCO
CowboyNeal: You shure have a pretty "O".
Re:Idiots..... (Score:2, Funny)
A-ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
SCO sues Judge Brooke C. Wells for ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars, news of which sends SCOX price soaring 10 cents per share to 11.69, at which time Daryll McBride sells the last of his holdings. Their evil scheme collapses and there is much rejoicing. Okay I am dreaming.
Re:Yeeeeeha! (Score:2, Funny)
not Daryl.
sounds like he was one beer shy of being called skeeter though.
Re:And what happens? (Score:3, Funny)
And kicking your dog.
SCO Seeks SlashLawyers (Score:3, Funny)
Of course the above is in jest, but I bet it will be quite a challenge to keep the source of all those AIX versions confidential from the eager eyes of the geek community. Is this stuff of any value today to IBM? Would sloppy court handling or an "accidental" publication by SCO possibly release anything of value to the tech community?
(I'm not talking about copyrights of course, that's a whole circle of hell Dante and I don't want to know anything about).
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
The back of the CD functions extremely well as a mirror.
Red.
Here you go, SCO! (Score:3, Funny)
{
}
int i;
j++
static char buf[1024];
} else {
if (!status) {
for(;;)
int error;
void* addr;
return 0;
And anyone manage to find this in System V?
panic("bad_user_access_length executed (not cool, dude)");
I'm still looking for where it was stolen from, but man is that Wingdings hard to read!
Silly SCO Worker, Lawsuits are for fascists! (Score:2, Funny)
He also asked if we used Linux at all and seemed rather disappointed when he found out we ran BSD.
Re:My favourite: (Score:3, Funny)
<SNIP>
From: [me]
To: support@sco.com,sales@sco.com,legal@sco.com
CC: webmaster@sco.com
Subject: Code release
Due to recent court orders requiring SCO to provide information regarding release of code...
"SCO is to provide and identify with specificity the lines of code that SCO distributed to other parties. This is to include where applicable
the conditions of release, to whom the code was released, the date and under what circumstances such code was released."
I'm writing to let you know that you released the following code to me:
Code: Linux 2.4 Kernel Source
Conditions: GNU GPL
Date: 2/11/2004
Circumstances: Public HTTP Server
Please be sure to include this in your filing and feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or concerns.
Thank you,
[me]
P.S. I went to www.sco.com to try and find the proper addressee for this message, but the site seemed to be down. I'd like to offer my consulting
services for your global website deployment strategy needs to keep this from happening in the future. Let me know if you're interested.
</SNIP>
How's that sound?
I actually downloaded the code last month after discussing the ramifications of the SCO fiaSCO with one of my customers. The solution we came up with is that once I downloaded the code and distributed my "derivative work" of said code to the customer, we were both covered and could no longer be the targets of any SCO lawsuit(s).
the best one was (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm a day late and a Daryl short."
For those curious (Score:5, Funny)
It is therefore a "Shut up and put up" demand.
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The funniest thing is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:2, Funny)
Lazy editors. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:3, Funny)
That's good, because I'm going to sue the pants off you for causing me mental anguish by using 'disincentivize' in that sentence.
Re:Time for SCO to put up (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Quick Question... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, abbreviations are always pronounced with individual letters...it would be really freakish if people didn't say G-N-U, or L-A-S-E-R, or A-S-C-I-I. As if those are words. That would be ridiculous, like Kramer trying to use "Quone" in a game of Scrabble.
Re:Quick Question... (Score:1, Funny)
(*) No relation at all to now defunct "SCO Group".
Dude, the fact that you aren't associated with the current incarnation of SCO is not something you want to put in a tiny footnote. You want it in 24pt text, in bright red. And for the HTML version, well, this is one time that the <blink> tag might be warranted.