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SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen
Posted by
kdawson
on Tue May 01, 2007 02:14 AM
from the can't-say-that dept.
from the can't-say-that dept.
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."
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Coincidence? (Score:5, Funny)
Just goes to prove that nobody is 100% evil.
Re:Coincidence? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Insightful)
A pity SCO can't manage to gag themselves. That would keep just about everyone happy!
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Re:Coincidence? (Score:4, Funny)
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As if (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:As if (Score:5, Funny)
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Alternate link to the same story (Score:5, Informative)
No mention of PJ??? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070428
Re:No mention of PJ??? (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:No mention of PJ??? (Score:4, Funny)
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Only 2 days late (Score:3, Interesting)
SCO wanted to gag Groklaw too (Score:5, Interesting)
Beating a Dead Horse (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Beating a Dead Horse (Score:5, Interesting)
Many of us have thought SCO was dead before - they aren't just Evil, they're The Undead. Regardless of what their losses are, and how many times they are rebuffed by the courts, Microsoft could still dump another couple hundred thousand on them to keep them walking - that's pocket change for Microsoft, and they may well do it just on the outside chance that they will cost someone one or two more Linux jobs.
For my part, I won't be satisfied until the story says that the papers dissolving the corporation have been filed. Fwiw.
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Re:Beating a Dead Horse (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably there is a headline somewhere along the lines of "SCO attemps to silence Buffy Summers"...
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Re: (Score:3, Funny)
I can only imagine how that will go...
Ash: Ok you Primitive SCOheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
Re:Beating a Dead Horse (Score:5, Insightful)
You must be new here.
Ok, more seriously... IMHO, the real reason why SCO stories are covered so often here on
(As of May 1, 2007) They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday...
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for a GNU dawn! for freedom! (Score:5, Funny)
Wait.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wait.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Texas Law in Utah? (Score:4, Funny)
Gag away (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone is just copying from Groklaw (Score:4, Informative)
Since then all these "anonymous sources" just cite from PJ, without properly giving credit. The second paragraph in the groklaw article reads:
It also wanted Linus Torvalds, Eben Moglen, and Eric Raymond to be prevented from commenting publicly about the litigation.
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Re:In case ol' boy doesn't show up (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, if you wait long enough you may get the entire company as an added bonus after purchasing one license.
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