Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud

An anonymous reader writes "Now it gets interesting. According to this report, it looks as if SCO is preparing to accuse IBM of fraud, and has even opened up a web site to counter the runaway success of Groklaw. SCO's expensive attorneys Boies and Silver are apparently going to file a motion asking the court to unseal most of the documents that are currently under seal, in the hope that certain of IBM's e-mails will be seen by the outside world to tell a story about AIX, Dynix, and Project Monterey that implicates IBM in, well to be blunt, fraud. Groklaw is certain to have its own distinct view about this latest development of course."

Insult + Injury

[Theovon]

So, SCO insults the entire world of Free Software, and they think some stupid web site will generate some sympathy? Sheesh.

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[TheSpoom]

The way things are going now, our grandkids will just say, "But isn't that thing still going on?"

The least they could do

[theluckyleper]

Yeah, the least they could do is put some pr0n on it, or something.

Validate

[savagedome]

The page says "Roll mouse over timeline icons to see summary of each document". So I did and nothing. Hmmmm. Well, let's see how it validates [w3.org].

OH well.

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I think SCO just likes to believe that if it could just advocate enough false statements then perhaps just by chance one of them will turn out to be true. I figure the chance of that is equivelent to one hundred monkeys tapping randomly on keyboards reconstructing all of linux source code with a covering letter to Darl telling him to politely drink a cup of Ricin. Simon.

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[Coneasfast]

i can imagine it, Darl will still be ranting on about IBM in his old-folks home, while shaking his walking stick.

btw, does he have any children to carry on his evil legacy? wouldn't want it to be a family tradition. :/

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[nkh]

Shaking his walking stick? more like crapping his pants, but he'll blame it on Linus.

Help me understand this

[overshoot]

Caldera (now called "the SCO Group") is going to sue IBM because they worked with Caldera on Linux, so that when Monterey stalled IBM and Caldera were able to move on.

Thanks at least in part to the failure of Monterey (and the fact that Caldera helped IBM have a contingency plan that worked) Caldera was able to pick up the Santa Cruz Operation's Unix business at a discount.

Because they got it at a discount, they're going to sue IBM for conspiring with themselves to save them acquisition costs?

a little higher

[Anonymous Coward]

Dont you think that would be raising the bar just a little too high for SCO.

SCO's IBM lawsuit page is not new

[brumle]

The ibmlawsuit page on SCO's website is not new, but prior to this it hadn't been updated in a while. It didn't take more than five minutes for this story to Slashdot their server. Let's wait for SCO to cry "sco.com hacked by linux users AGAIN".

I call fraud on SCO's website

[theluckyleper]

Yeah, I was going to call fraud on SCO's new website too; I looked at the source and it seems like they're expecting the ALT tag text to pop up when you mouseover (there's no javascript or anything)... which doesn't seem to be happening for me, in Firefox.

Fraud! Fraud!

Re:The least they could do

[savagedome]

Actually, even this new look [bbspot.com] would have done!

Sales Call!

[Natchswing]

Anyone else notice that they offer a link on their site to request a sales call [caldera.com]. Where do we start? Have them try and sell licenses to known spammers? Request a sales call of the judges working on the SCO cases? Maybe just get a sales person to call each of us so we can inquire about linux licenses.

Re:I call fraud on SCO's website

[davron05]

Wait, I am using ALT tags on my web page too. Applying SCO's "substantial similarity of source-codes" argument to this case, SCO is infriging my copyright!

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[Zorilla]

btw, does he have any children to carry on his evil legacy? wouldn't want it to be a family tradition. :/

Well, seeing that this guy is from Utah.....crap. It's going to be one biiiiiig family tradition.

Re:Validate

[cabra771]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this right away. I figure IBM's attorneys can use this as evidence of SCO's incompetence.

"Your honor, those idiots don't know their ass from a title attribute."

Re:Roll mouse over timeline icons...

[Sirch]

It's not actually working for me in IE6 either, so I think they're just incompetent...

Re:It's Boies Schiller

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they did a great job in 2000.

The story at linuxworld

[michrech]

The story
at linuxworld
was very
difficult
to read
all the
way
through.

What
were
they
thinking?

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[Curtman]

By then it will be:

Five hundred beeeeeeeeliiiooon dollars

Darl totally needs a minime too, if he does have children please let one of them be a midget.

+5, troll

[MrHanky]

More like absurd drama, Waiting for the Law or something like that:

McBride: You're right. We're unexaustible.
Silver: It's so we don't think.
McBride: We have that excuse.
Silver: It's so we don't hear.
McBride: We have our reasons.
Silver: All the dead lawsuits.
McBride: They make noise like wings.
Silver: Like leaves.
McBride: Like sand.
Silver: Like leaves.

(with apologies to Samuel Beckett)

Re:Validate

[Tsiangkun]

I get the same result in Safari.

I figured the documents had been parsed to show the meaningful statements SCO has made so far, and then filtered to only display the statements that help their case.

US legal system is #1

[jjo]

I'm afraid you're much mistaken. It's only the US system of easy-to-file lawsuits and 'everyone-pays' legal fees that make the US legal system what it is today: an efficient, unbiased forum equally available to all, both rich and poor. If we adopted the foreign 'loser-pays' system, we would immediately see the little people locked out of the courthouse and mercilessly persecuted by huge corporations. Such things never happen in the US now.

Under 'loser-pays', the RIAA could hound innocent file-sharers into submission just by imposing legal expenses that could never be reimbursed! Oops, I got confused: that's what happens under the US system now. Never mind, the US system is still the greatest thing on Earth.

To see just how valuable and attractive the US 'easy to sue' and 'everyone pays' system is, just consider all the other countries that have adopted it: ... hmm ... I guess there aren't any. Well, all those other countries are sure missing a good thing.

Excited Me

[CmdrGravy]

I read 'Nurse' and was reaching to click on your profile when I saw the 'man'. How could you raise my hopes like this ?

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[cynic10508]

Well, seeing that this guy is from Utah.....crap. It's going to be one biiiiiig family tradition.

And sadly, their minivan gets lodged in a winter snowbank. The resulting horror replaces the Donner Party in popular memory with the McBride Party...

Re:Validate

[Ohreally_factor]

It's their way of saying, "And now a word from our sponsor."

I know! I know!

[Ohreally_factor]

Hmm , now given 2 companies , IBM and SCO ... and given the evidence - who do we think the dictionary definition of fraudulant bastards best describes ?

The Bush Administration?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Go ahead and mod me to oblivion.

Re:Can't treally blame them...

[vsprintf]

btw, does he have any children to carry on his evil legacy? wouldn't want it to be a family tradition. :/

Yes, Darl has a wife and children, which proves two things: Females can also be afflicted by bad judgement, and it doesn't take intelligence to procreate.

Just when you think it can't get any dummer

[HangingChad]

SCO reaches in the magic bag of idiocy and pulls out another gem.

These guys are either taking their marching orders directly from Redmond or they're the biggest bunch of idiots to ever ride into the technology circus tent. Wait, now that I think about it that's the same thing.