SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen

An anonymous reader passes on word of court documents filed by IBM on Friday. The documents contain a copy of a letter, dated 2004, from SCO to IBM's lawyers stating that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO, speculating erroneously that IBM was the principal funder of OSDL, where Torvalds worked at the time. Quoting: "The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, the Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."

The SCO drama continues...

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps some bigwig company is trying to make sure SCO stays at center stage.

Eben gagged himself

[Anonymous Coward]

Eben gagged himself, in a way, by retiring from his work on the GPL3

Beating a Dead Horse

[AchiIIe]

Not sure what to tag this, maybe "beatingadeadhorse". How many more stories of SCO being {evil|stupid|malicious} do we need. The company is almost dead now, let them die alright. It'll be a history lesson for future companies.

Re:Coincidence?

[mpe]

Trying to silence ESR? Isn't that like the proverbial unstopable rock hitting the unmoveable object? Silencing ESR would require the violation of at least 7 laws of physics :-)

A pity SCO can't manage to gag themselves. That would keep just about everyone happy!

Re:Beating a Dead Horse

[gbobeck]

How many more stories of SCO being {evil|stupid|malicious} do we need.

You must be new here.

Ok, more seriously... IMHO, the real reason why SCO stories are covered so often here on /. is because SCO decided to mess with Linux and the GPL, thus pissing off a very large set of communities (including, but by no means limited to the Linux community, Open Source Developers...). Now, since there is a large number of people who care about the SCO case, there is a demand for articles concerning the case as well as anything related to it. Therefore, SCO stuff gets on the front page.

The company is almost dead now, let them die alright

(As of May 1, 2007) They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday...

Exactly - I'd pay $699 for that.

[aurelian]

Just read this [catb.org] if you were in any doubt about what a fscking idiot the man is.

Re:Coincidence?

[MysteriousPreacher]

Seems like a fair response given their total lack of research.

Linus should be suing SCO

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Linus should be suing SCO for defamation of character because with they're lawsuits they're saying that's he's not competent to write a kernel, and accusing him plagiarizing of their code.