NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless' 326
Xenographic writes "The National Retail Federation has just put out a press release in which their CIO concludes that SCO's IP claims are "meritless," and that Novell is the last company which can show a clear title to the code in question. That SCO's claims are meritless is hardly news to anyone who has been following this, but what is interesting is that the NRF was prompted to release this because of legal threats to their membership, specifically SCO's threats to sue "major retailers." So the businesses being menaced by SCO are banding together, making it that much less likely that SCO will be able to generate easy money from mere threats of litigation. SCO's stock, meanwhile, appears to have taken a small dive from this news. Also, you can find further details and analysis on Groklaw."
At the end... (Score:5, Funny)
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gulp.
-m
Re:Old News (Score:5, Funny)
Now if the courts will do it and slap them with a $699 fine for every false claim they've ever made, I'll die a happy puppy.
Interesting (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Code in question? (Score:5, Funny)
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one 'leet trader (Score:5, Funny)
(look at the bottom of the 'bid orders' section)
Re:Interesting (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh really? (Score:5, Funny)
Today 6.92/share
They are approaching life support levels.
Nooo! (Score:3, Funny)
If SCO doesn't have any more real claims in court, how will we as a society get by?
The last time a major company fell apart, we had to hire Sally Struthers to start up "CEO charity foundations".
We can't have these people walking the streets. Keeping them in upper management positions is the only way to protect the rest of us from serious harm. At least in the boardroom, secluded from the rest of society, they can do the least damage.
Re:Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Running out of time but not hot air (Score:3, Funny)
SCO is really scrambling now
Personally I never believe any company is dying until Netcraft confirms it.
Re:one 'leet trader (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SCO's stock (Score:2, Funny)
Wal-Mart Called... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:one 'leet trader (Score:5, Funny)
in other news.. (Score:1, Funny)
This is nothing... (Score:4, Funny)
(emphasis added to enhance tonality)
Reason for "termination" (Score:3, Funny)
Go figure!
Re:one 'leet trader (Score:2, Funny)
Hopefully, those 31337 shares, can all be conveniently printed on a roll of 1-share per sheet high quality tissue paper. That way, you can conveniently tear off a few of those 31337 single share stock certificates from the roll as you need them.
Still, that's an expensive roll for $313.37.
Damn, damn and triple damn! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How many people of come out against this?? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps you mean Laura Didio?
Re:How many people of come out against this?? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't.
Re:Code in question? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh really? (Score:1, Funny)
Lie management software package (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe Microsoft could write them one?
You know what they say about telling lies leads to the need to tell bigger lies. Sheesh, didn't Darl learn that as a kid?
Re:Code in question? (Score:4, Funny)
It might not look like much, but it was infringed thousands of times:(this is as far into each line of code that the SCO lawyers bothered to look -- because if the first eight or nine characters match, that's enough to be infringing, right?)
Re:Running out of time but not hot air (Score:3, Funny)
On affordable hardware?
NRF calls SCO's claims... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, that would be awfully funny (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The hidden agenda in all this (Score:3, Funny)
I think I speak for most everyone here when I say that Darl should be made Ambassador to Bubba. A two or four year appointment will not be enough of a reward, either. A Lifetime appointment sounds just about right to me.
Let's not forget his partners, either. Sontag et al having been his advisors, they can just continue to advise him...
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