SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong 389
linumax writes "It took more than two and a half years, but the SCO Group finally has disclosed a list of areas it believes IBM violated its Unix contract, allegedly by moving proprietary Unix technology into open-source Linux. In a five-page document filed Friday, SCO attorneys say they identify 217 areas in which it believes IBM or Sequent, a Unix server company IBM acquired, violated contracts under which SCO and its predecessors licensed the Unix operating system. However, the curious won't be able to see for themselves the details of SCO's claims: The full list of alleged abuses were filed in a separate document under court seal. The Lindon, Utah-based company did provide some information about what it believes IBM moved improperly to Linux, though."
Hopefully (Score:5, Funny)
Jay Leno (Score:2, Funny)
Aaaaand the number one Copyright infringement made by IBM is....
The crowd goes wild!
Linux/Unix (Score:5, Funny)
The list... (Score:3, Funny)
The character 'b'
The character 'c'
The character 'A'
The character '{'
You get the idea.
But seriously, most of them sound very dodgy, and the JFS issue has already been looked over by people better then SCO.
Apple should just buy out SCO (Score:2, Funny)
They just don't know when to quit, do they? (Score:5, Funny)
All kidding aside, I continue to find it astonishing that given everything that has gone on before SCO is still persuing this. I'd dearly love to see the 217 ways they've been wronged.
It's getting downright pathetic....
First Time For Everything... (Score:5, Funny)
What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are actual litigants with a case pending in a U.S. District court. Both parties have agreed to dismiss their court cases and have their disputes settled here! In our forum! The People's Court!
Judge Yakov Smirnoff (Ret.) presiding.
Re:What Next? (Score:5, Funny)
such concepts as:
and let us not forget the rampent use of:
that's in the linux kernel
Attorney Conversation (Score:5, Funny)
SCO Attorney 2: Yeah but those idiots are still paying us.
SCO Attorney 1: How much longer can they pay us to do this?
SCO Attorney 2: Maybe another year or two.
SCO Attorney 1: What then?
SCO Attorney 2: Well we will either win the case and be filthy rich while they are still broke, or we'll just apply for jobs with Microsoft and repeat the process with someone else.
SCO Attorney 1: BRILLIANT!
What me worry ?? (Score:4, Funny)
A Large Ball of Light... (Score:3, Funny)
...was reported [nbc29.com] in the sky over Virginia last night.
Astronomers initially believed it was a meteor, but it was later determined to be SCO's case against IBM cratering spectacularly...
Five pages, 217 "areas of infringement" (Score:1, Funny)
Not much specificity in there, methinks.
They probably filed it under seal to keep the whole OSS community from howling in laughter.
How much did they pay this lawyer? (Score:5, Funny)
Commenting on a disclosure in big words doesn't make the complaint any more valid. I mean, sure, I've a propensity to bloviate without regard to efficient communications strategies and verbal deployments utilizing synergistic vocabularistic qualities to increase comprehension.
But, why can't they say "IBM broke our contract by using our proprietary ideas to make their software work as well as ours. They did it so much that it was obviously intentional and illegal." (note: I am not accepting this as fact)
Re:What Next? (Score:5, Funny)
You obviously can't spell phishing. You forget that SCO is trying to pass themselves off to the courts as a reasonable group.
</toungeincheek>
I have some inside information... (Score:3, Funny)
I think if you saw the code SCO provided, you would see that Linux blatantly stole huge chunks of code almost verbatim.
Re:What Next? (Score:5, Funny)
Well then, this is a good thing. Maybe SCO should realize that their kernel shouldn't contain an endless while(true) loop-- that explains many problems.
Oh Really... (Score:5, Funny)
"One! One IP violation!!! Hahahahahah! Two!! Two IP violations!!!! Ahahahahaha!!!!"...
This Fall's Blockbuster Hit! (Score:2, Funny)
Coming to a courthouse near you!
Re:What Next? (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:MOD PARENT UP (Re:Five pages, 217 violations?) (Score:5, Funny)
But they keep modding me -1 Redundant (or worse).
Re:What Next? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm glad you have an imagination, because unfortunately Knuth probably isn't. The Daily WTF [thedailywtf.com] could be, however it might be a while before they get around to you [thedailywtf.com].
Re:What Next? (Score:2, Funny)
while(!true) { litigate(); }
Re:Really? No percentage of the damages? (Score:3, Funny)