SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright 286
Raul654 writes "In March, the jury in the Novell/SCO case found that Novell owns the copyright to Unix. Now, SCO's lawyers have asked judge Ted Stewart to order Novell to turn over the Unix copyright to them. 'SCO contends the jury did not answer the specific issue before Stewart that involves a legal principle called "specific performance," under which a party can ask a court to order another party to fulfill an aspect of an agreement.'" Over at Groklaw, PJ is deep into a community project to annotate SCO's filing. It's for the benefit of future historians, but it makes amusing reading now.
Re:sco still alive? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:sco still alive? (Score:1, Funny)
isn't sco dead yet?
Of course SCO isn't dead yet. The undead require special tools to kill like sunlight and a stake throw the heart. Any idea how hard it is to hunt down all sco people and stake them? Especially since they all hide in deep dark damp caves were even the brave are afraid to venture.
Damn! (Score:3, Funny)
I beginning to think SCO is trying for the Guinness Book of World Records under "Worlds Longest Running Soap Opera". How much longer do they have to go to get the title?
CLANG! (Score:5, Funny)
[clang]
CORPSE COLLECTOR: Bring out your dead!
NOVELL: Here's one.
CORPSE COLLECTOR: Nine pence.
SCO: I'm not dead!
CORPSE COLLECTOR: What?
NOVELL: Nothing. Here's your nine pence.
SCO: I'm not dead!
Shades of Charlie Brown (Score:3, Funny)
Don't know if anyone else remembers "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown"....
Judge: What are you doing, SCO?
SCO: I'm waiting for my sweet baboo.^W^W^W^W^W suing Novell because they assigned us the copyright to Unix.
Novell: We did not assign you the copyrights!
SCO: Novell sold us the copyright in 1995.
Novell: WE DID NOT!
SCO: Well, you should have!
Judge: Oh, brother.
Hey Judge, while you're listening (Score:5, Funny)
Hey your Judgeousness, while you're listening, I'd like a pony.
Re:sco still alive? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wikipedia to the rescue (Score:4, Funny)
Re:sco still alive? (Score:1, Funny)
Still alive just like like GLaDOS. They've got copyrights to claim, Linux companies to maim.
Re:sco still alive? (Score:5, Funny)
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Just more evidence that SCO is an unholy abomination, an eldritch spawn from the depths, dreaming yet always on the verge of descending upon the Earth in a storm of chaos, madness and despair. Note the double meaning of "lie" in above excerpt from the necronomicon. Note also, that they used to be called Caldera - making their connection to sinister chthonic powers a wee bit too obvious for my taste...
IA! IA! SCO FHTAGN! CALDERA FHTAGN!
They're the Black Knight of the Holy Grail (Score:5, Funny)
All their legs and arms have been chopped off and they're still taunting the legal system.
Running away, eh? Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
Define "No" (Score:5, Funny)
From the Article:
What part of "No" do you not understand?
Worse than a rebel without a cause (Score:4, Funny)
... is an IP troll without IP.
Pathetic.
Re:Wikipedia to the rescue (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't CBS a cable network?
No. CBS is a television network. Ethernet, Arcnet, Token Ring and Localtalk are cable networks.
Re:PJ, here is my annotation for the whole filing. (Score:4, Funny)
It's pretty much "Mommy! Make Timmy give me the toy, so I can hit Susie with it!"
Re:And if SCO _did_ get it... what? (Score:5, Funny)
SCO: Linux violates our copyrights on UNIX!
IBM: No, it does not. Not a single line infringes on UNIX
Novell: Wait, what? We own copyright on UNIX.
SCO: Your honor, we are unable to pursue the lawsuit against Linux infringing upon our rights to UNIX because we don't have them, Novell does. Could you force them to hand these rights over to us so that we could continue suing Linux?
In order of undead toughness (Score:1, Funny)
Skeleton
Zombie
Ghast
Ghoul
Mummy
Vampire
Demi-lich
Lich
Arthas
SCO
Re:sco still alive? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sure Novell is wondering the same fscking thing. :-P
Re:slasher movie (Score:3, Funny)
The judge busts in the door just in time to deliver a definitive shotgun blast to the face?
One can hope.
Re:sco still alive? (Score:3, Funny)
It might have said "in return for 10 years of litigation we agree to pay $106 million
Like I said: I just want an honest presentation of the facts.
Re:And if SCO _did_ get it... what? (Score:3, Funny)
No, actually read:
SCO: Linux violates our copyrights on UNIX!
IBM: No, it does not. Not a single line infringes on UNIX
Novell: Wait, what? We own copyright on UNIX.
SCO: Your honor, Novell is *LYING*, which is causing people to not believe that we own the copyright - make them stop lying.
Judge: Show me a document that says you own the copyrights.
SCO: Umm, we can't.
Judge: Why do you think you own the copyrights?
SCO: Well, Darl's best friend's brother's second-cousin heard that we own them!
Judge: Not good enough. You don't own them.
SCO: Well, we *should* own them - make them give them to us!
Re:sco still alive? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes. Little did the public know that the earlier SCO was forked just before the court cases. When SCO died, SCO@r23 simple took its place. SCO@r23 was in fact identical to SCO though, and few** were any the wiser, since SCO's development had stalled at the age of 4.
** I had to sleep with Darl's wife to get this information. I am not proud of it. Also, note that his wife was NOT currently, and in fact had never been forked. At least, not until I slept with her. I don't know why I'm telling you all this. I'm sure it'll come out in future SCO divorce ligitation anyway.
Re:sco still alive? (Score:5, Funny)
Besides the kick in the nuts, he was also fired.