SCO sues company for using Linux

[John Corliss]

Story is here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5167829.html?tag=nefd_top

SCO has finally stepped on its own...... fingers. As per this page:

http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit032.html

(do a search for instances of "racketeering" on the page) it's my
understanding that this will leave them open to being sued for fraud
and racketeering.

IMO SCO (used to be Caldera) is like a bunch of children. "If I can't
sell Linux, then nobody else can."

 

[Wald]

Story is here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5167829.html?tag=nefd_top

SCO has finally stepped on its own...... fingers. As per this
page:

http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit032.html

(do a search for instances of "racketeering" on the page) it's
my understanding that this will leave them open to being sued
for fraud and racketeering.

IMO SCO (used to be Caldera) is like a bunch of children. "If I
can't sell Linux, then nobody else can."

I think any sane person sees that these are desparate moves by a
company in trouble. For instance, the timing of this announcement
isn't coincidence: SCO's quarterly earnings are to be presented on
March 3rd. Those earnings are going to be anything but good, so I
guess it's just SCO's way of drawing attention away to other
things.

Then again, you never know how crazy the world is. I can imagine
that SCO will eventually even get away with this by some crazy
scheme, due to heavy lobbying and I-don't-know-what else... let's
wait and see.

Wald

 

[John Corliss]

I think any sane person sees that these are desparate moves by a
company in trouble. For instance, the timing of this announcement
isn't coincidence: SCO's quarterly earnings are to be presented on
March 3rd. Those earnings are going to be anything but good, so I
guess it's just SCO's way of drawing attention away to other
things.
Then again, you never know how crazy the world is. I can imagine
that SCO will eventually even get away with this by some crazy
scheme, due to heavy lobbying and I-don't-know-what else... let's
wait and see.

If they do then it will be far in the future after the judicial
industry (I no longer consider anybody working in the U.S. legal
system a "professional") gets done milking all involved parties dry of
legal funding. And in any event, to my understanding (correct me if
I'm wrong) all of the disputed code has been replaced in the current
Linux kernel anyway, so Linux will survive.

 

[Gordon Darling]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:33:20 -0800, John Corliss wrote:

snip

And in any event, to my understanding (correct me if
I'm wrong) all of the disputed code has been replaced in the current
Linux kernel anyway, so Linux will survive.

No Linux code has been replaced so far as SCO have still failed to specify
what they actually hold copyright on in detail.

For ongoing, in depth, coverage of SCO's antics see;

http://www.groklaw.net

Regards
Gordon

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

No Linux code has been replaced so far as SCO have still failed to specify
what they actually hold copyright on in detail.

For ongoing, in depth, coverage of SCO's antics see;

http://www.groklaw.net

And the latest word on that is that the judge has ordered SCO and IBM
both to comply with discovery orders in 45 days. For the most part,
this will force SCO to produce the exact code they claim has been
copied. IBM has only been forced to produce a list of 1000 witnesses
and some code they already offered to produce.

I'd say sometime after 45 days, this thing will get thrown out of
court. Certainly once the details of the alleged infringing code is
made known, the open source experts will track it down and prove its
origins in short order. This has happened so far with every bit of
code SCO has shown publicly.

SCO has already claimed code that Linus himself can prove he wrote
while a grad student.

The whole thing is a farce and one can only hope SCO will not only be
ground out of business but also sued and perhaps charged with criminal
fraud, racketeering or violation of various FTC regulations before
this farce is over.

 

[Vrodok the Troll]

And the latest word on that is that the judge has ordered SCO and IBM
both to comply with discovery orders in 45 days. For the most part,
this will force SCO to produce the exact code they claim has been
copied. IBM has only been forced to produce a list of 1000 witnesses
and some code they already offered to produce.

I'd say sometime after 45 days, this thing will get thrown out of
court.

I predict that, before the 45 days is up, SCO's servers will be hit by yet
*another* DDoS attack (thus providing SCO with 1 more excuse [that] they
"didn't have the time", to comply... just as the most-recent "attack").

 

[H-Man]

If they do then it will be far in the future after the judicial
industry (I no longer consider anybody working in the U.S. legal
system a "professional") gets done milking all involved parties dry of
legal funding. And in any event, to my understanding (correct me if
I'm wrong) all of the disputed code has been replaced in the current
Linux kernel anyway, so Linux will survive.

Of course it will survive. The cats out of the bag so to speak, you
can't put it back now. Even if IBM lost the case, they would have to go
after all of the distributors. Many of which have little or no income,
and nothing to sue from. As the source was available from the start, the
machine is rolling, and ain't nothin gonna stop her now!
HK