SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License 1065
AKAImBatman writes "SCO has terminated IBM's license to use Unix code. SCO is filing for an injunction that will require IBM to cease all sale of AIX as well as accrue damages for each day IBM continues to sell AIX."
in related news... (Score:5, Funny)
the article (Score:5, Funny)
I think whomever wrote this press release needs to do his/her research better...
-Sean
I'm shocked. (Score:5, Funny)
I depend on Slashdot to give me some advance warning, preferably several weeks worth of daily articles with 500 posts, so that I'm not blindsided by issues like this.
Put your money where your mouth is... (Score:2, Funny)
Still open:
1 month
2 months
3 months
etc...
I can see it now (Score:4, Funny)
Darl McBride (Score:1, Funny)
YOU FAIL IT!
S. Jobs
Ohh wait... (Score:1, Funny)
sorry mcbride...
Damages? (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, c'mon, there's at least as much legal ground to stand on, and at least I can call my psychologist as a witness....
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On dear Lord (Score:5, Funny)
that has to be ... (Score:5, Funny)
Jar Jar? (Score:4, Funny)
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!! (Score:5, Funny)
Let's get it
Leading? SCO? HAH! (Score:5, Funny)
"a leading provider of business software solutions"
Lets just redefine 'leading' shall we?
Where i work we are very seriously working towards ridding our machine room of SCO forever.
To this end, I'm taking suggestions as to innovative and torturous ways to take a SCO Unixware box down.
Note; we will be putting Linux on the boxes after SCO is removed, so please, no suggestions that involve damage to the hardware.
Discussion With The Court Clerk (Score:5, Funny)
*SCO walks into court clerk*
SCO: "We would like to sue a corporation today."
Clerk: "Which One?"
SCO: "All of them".
*clerk collapses onto floor*
Future licenses (Score:5, Funny)
That is, of course, unless a judge does something like this:
Judge: So, um, SCO, you're claiming IBM stole your code, right?
SCO: Yes, and we will defend our intellectual property to the ends of the earth, to the moon and back, to the universe -
Judge: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, can we see this source code?
SCO: Um, well, if we showed it to you, you might steal it as well.
Judge: Huh?
SCO: You're in it too - we know it! How much did IBM pay you to betray us?
Judge: Are you on drugs? I just want to see the supposed code theft -
SCO: Master betrayed us! No - Judge is our friend! Nobody's our friend!
Judge: Case dismissed.
Microsoft: But - but we licensed the code.
SCO: (Holding legal documents.) Our presssssciousssss....
The Death March Begins. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll just grab some popcorn and hope this will be as entertaining as advertised. SCO, put on a good show will you.
SCO needs to update their PR description (Score:5, Funny)
should be:
The SCO(R) Group (SCO), a leading provider of frivolous lawsuits...
Also,
About SCO
The SCO Group helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com
should be:
About SCO
The SCO Group helps several SCO executives in USA grow their declining SCO stock value everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 lawyers and 8,000 pending lawsuits. SCO Global Services provides reliable Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to Linux and IBM partners and customers. For more information on SCO lies, damn lies and lawsuits, visit http://www.sco.com.
Leading like the sacrificial lamb... (Score:4, Funny)
They're leading the way for other companies who want to commit IP suicide.
Schumpter's Creative Destruction - Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
I guess this is what Schumpter meant by Creative Destruction.
It would of course be better if SCO is destroyed, but if IBM needs to be destroyed SO BE IT !!
I am all for a good fight !!!
P.S. I just hope Linux-spirit does not get destroyed in the uncertainity that will be spawned. What can uncertainity do? Just ask Alan Greenspan.
Thought for the Day (Score:3, Funny)
zerg (Score:5, Funny)
I would like some of what you are smoking. Please hook a brother up. Thanks in advance.
Re:Leading? SCO? HAH! (Score:5, Funny)
2) eat taco bell
3) next day, wipe ass with license document
4) mail to SCO
5) profit!
Re:economic plan (Score:5, Funny)
You've obviously forgotten overused /. meme #405. It should be:
1.Buy someone else's IP
2.Fail economics 101
3.Sue
4.???
5. PROFIT!
Please keep this in mind next time you decide to come out from under your silly little bridge. Us big people have things to do.
And today from IBM (Score:5, Funny)
The lawsuits ranged from countersuits regarding breach of contract, to unfair business practices, to acting not in the best intersts of shareholders, polluting the marketplace, unfair business practices, and illegal distribution of copywrighted materials.
IBM has also sent notices to the US and German attourney generals regarding SCO's breaches of international copyright treaties.
In the same announcement, IBM has denied that it employs ships stationed in international waters to attack and board any ship carrying SCO property.
On Tuesday, IBM plans to 'blacken the Utah sky' with paratrooping lawyers to persue the lawsuits.
More information will be released after Tuesday's paradrop.
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
Now it all makes sense. (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks.
SCO's infinite stupidity drive... (Score:2, Funny)
Is it so bad? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:that has to be ... (Score:4, Funny)
It doesn't have any competition in that regard...
Nobel Prize in Computing (Score:5, Funny)
(Currently working a project running on AIX - transitioning to Linux)
Re:Discussion With The Court Clerk (Score:5, Funny)
SCO: You bastards! I'm holding this court liable for damages every minute that our filings are delayed.
Clerk: While you're waiting, you should reformat your 40,000 page complaint and 1,100 page briefs from MS word files to typed paped documents. We need those in triplicate, so you might want to send one of your lawyers out for carbon paper.
SCO's Motto... (Score:3, Funny)
It's like watching a bully playing with fire (Score:1, Funny)
Hmm (Score:1, Funny)
Stock quotes (Score:5, Funny)
down: SCO Group SCOX 10.93 -0.28
I guess that sums it all up...up: Intl Bus. Machines IBM 84.50 1.75
Today's MarketWatch (tm) (Score:5, Funny)
SCO CEO Darl McBride was quoted as saying, "In order to better leverage our technology IP and increase profits, we've decided to refuse to sell, license, or not sue anyone not directly involved with Microsoft's
Heard in the Distance (Score:5, Funny)
"What is that horrible sound?"
"That is the sound of the Black Steeds riding west from Armonk."
"The Black Steeds?"
"The Nazgul. They once were men. Now they are neither dead nor alive. They are IBM's attorneys."
Re:Damages? (Score:3, Funny)
They actually paid someone to rewrite all the man pages to ensure that any useful information was expunged.
The more I use it, the more I wonder if IBM isn't adopting Linux out of a desperate desire to have an OS that doesn't just outright suck.
Honestly... if AIX is a shining example of SCO IP, then let SCO have it. The rest of the world is better off without.
Re:The Death March Begins. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another URL (Score:5, Funny)
SCO: Mr. Palmisano, please.
Operator: May I tell him who's calling?
SCO: Darl McBride, CEO of SCO
Operator: Oh, you again. *pause* He is still not taking your call. Would you like his voice mail?
SCO: *sigh* Sure.
[Flush][laughter]*click*
Similarities... (Score:4, Funny)
Some quotes from SCO (Score:5, Funny)
I can assure you that those villains will recognize in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they have stolen OUR intellectual property.
They are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!""
-- SCO Minister of Information
Re:the article (Score:2, Funny)
SCO Reveals Stolen Code (Score:5, Funny)
They are currently trying to get the courts to uphold their patent of the semi-colon, a pair of parentheses, curly braces, and the crlf combination.
SCO has also filed a lawsuit against a 14yr old California student whose "Hello World" program infringes on SCO's patents. The student could not be reached for comments.
Re:don't miss the McBride interview... (Score:4, Funny)
Lou "Agent Blue" Gerstner to Darl "Retro" McBride: "It seems that you have been living two lives, Mister McBride. One of these lives - has a future. The other - does not. Oh, who the fuck am I kidding. We're going to pound your balls flat with a mallet."
A Slashdot First (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
They could stick their heads out the window and say "it looks like rain, better bring your umbrella"
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Future licenses (Score:4, Funny)
are any of these guys Scientologists?
Re:Now it all makes sense. (Score:5, Funny)
SCOX (Score:2, Funny)
I met them in a club down in Santa Cruz
where you code in C and it looks just like the Linux kernel... K-E-R-N Kernel
They walked up to me and asked me to desist
I asked them their name and in a cowardly voice they said, "SCOX"... S-C-O-X SCOX, sco sco sco sco-X
Well I'm not the world's most intelligent guy
But when they showed me the code I almost cried
Oh my SCOX, sco sco sco sco-X
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
How they stay in business with blood on their hands
Oh my SCOX, sco sco sco sco-X
Well they filed their claims and sued all night,
thanks to Microsoft's failing might
They picked me up and sat me on their knees
Saying, "Linux coder won't you turn and flee?"
Well I'm not the world's most logical guy
And when I looked at the comments
I almost fell for their bullshit
bull bull bull bull-shit
sco sco sco sco sco-X
I laughed them away. I walked to the court.
I filed a countersuit. They'll be down on their knees.
Now that IBM is looking out for me
And that's the way that I want it to be
They'll clean them out and make them pay
Oh my SCOX, sco sco sco sco-X
Linux will be UNIX, and UNIX will be Linux
It's a scratched-out, messed-up, crazy diagram
thanks to SCOX. sco sco sco sco-X
Well I posted to LKML just a week before
saying I never ever leaked code before
SCOX smiled and said "We understand,"
saying, "Linux coder, you can do what you can"
Well I'm not the world's most open source guy
but I know Richard Stallman and I bet that they'll fry
oh my SCOX, sco sco sco sco sco-X
sco sco sco sco-X
SCO Business Plan (Score:5, Funny)
2) Pull trigger
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
IBM got its start providing IT services to the US Census beureau over 100 years ago. Today it is tightly integrated into the business and government fabric of nations around the world. IBM hires the best and brightest MBA and Law school grads every year into their corporate ranks. With that combination of inteligence and connectivity, IBM is not a force you want to fight directly.
Beginning this year, IBM has appointed a new Chairman [eweek.com]. Mr. Palmisano has a history [com.com] of supporting [midrangeserver.com] Linux [eweek.com].
This is all the motivation IBM needs to finish migrating its non-x86 platforms all the way over to Linux and completely dumping that antiquated "Unix" stuff.
I see a lot of job opportunities for Linux hackers opening up at IBM shortly. Especially for people with both Linux and IBM mainframe or PPC experience.
Re:don't miss the McBride interview... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are there even that many lines of code? (Score:1, Funny)
Wow...they are all 100% identical to SCO's code! That's amazing!
Albert Einstein on the SCO case (Score:5, Funny)
Although we've never been able to prove the unified field theory, it looks like SCO is proving us the proof that Einstein was right about stupidity being infinite.
Their 30 seconds are up (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I can see it now (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm... I can see the next project at IBM being a supercomputer capable of playing an intricate game that requires thinking ahead many moves to counter opponent's moves... it'll be called "Deep Tort".
Re:Poor way of phrasing it (Score:3, Funny)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Score:3, Funny)
This whole FiaSCO has me both entertained and worried. Common sense suggests that SCO is about to become a greasy spot on the bottom of IBM's shoes. However, in the US, common sense is barred from court rooms, and SCO could turn out to be a bigger thorn than anyone imagined.
But... I can't help being reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... where SCO is playing the role of the Black Knight [stone-dead.asn.au].
- Twilight1
The reason IBM has been sitting on their thumbs (Score:3, Funny)
While I can't say this with full authority, I don't think they really are merely doing nothing about this. What I think they are doing right now is digging out a certain Nancy Sinatra song, looking in their closet for a particular pair of boots, and designing exactly how they are going to stomp all over SCO.
Re:Future licenses (Score:5, Funny)
that destroying all copies is not necessarily
a bad thing.
Re:Another URL (Score:5, Funny)
Operator: Thank you for calling IBM. How may I direct your call?
I saw this and assumed it would go more like this:
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
SCats: How are you gentlemen!!
SCats: All your AIX are belong to us.
Re:Leading? SCO? HAH! (Score:3, Funny)
Might I suggest going here [toxiccustard.com] and learning how to ruin a VCR? You can apply the same exercises to a SCO box.
Re:AT&T may be getting in volved as well. (Score:3, Funny)
> I wonder what rights AT&T retained.
The right to remain silent.
Actually... (Score:4, Funny)
No, I'm picturing something more along the lines of a gangland-style knee-capping, followed by SCO pleading for their lives, followed by a slit throat and ritual dis-embowlment.
But that's just me. And I'm sick.
Seriously, IBM's most likely not going to let SCO live. They're going to make an example of them.
RIAA: Watch and learn (Score:4, Funny)
-- Some idiot organisation who were successful once but are no longer relevant start worrying about their future. --
-- In a feeble but desparate attempt to boost finances and publicity, they start throwing lawsuits around. --
-- Getting more and more frustrated, they start screwing their own customers, who are now getting very pissed off. --
-- Most people agree that said organisation are a bunch of a-holes and vow never to buy from them again. --
Ring any bells? If you ask me, this SCO business is like a smaller and faster-moving example of the behaviour and imminent consequences of a certain irrelevant organisation known as the RIAA.
Here's the next part, which I hope will happen to SCO and set an example to the rather slower moving RIAA case.
-- Organisation becomes obsolete and goes down the pan where it belongs. There is much rejoicing. --
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but it seemed uncanny to me. Watch and learn, fools...
Re:don't miss the McBride interview... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
That's what I'm worried about. How many times have my battleships been sunk by friggen musketeers? sheesh...
Re:Future licenses (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, if they make noise, you should see a doctor.
Re:who owns SCO? (Score:4, Funny)
"No. $4. Not $4 per share."
You know. Pull an Ellison on them.
Re:Another URL (Score:2, Funny)
Headline is erroneous -- article is a troll (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are there even that many lines of code? (Score:3, Funny)
More seriously now, why on Earth would you use Excel to count the number of lines? Especially when you have a Linux command prompt ...
Re:Insanity! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Insanity! (Score:3, Funny)
That should sink your battleship.
ALL IBM is doing is (Score:4, Funny)
When the bell rings, IBM will calmly walk to the center of the ring, and rip SCOs spine out.
Re:Insanity! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A Slashdot First (Score:3, Funny)
Geoff
Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pissing in the Well (Score:1, Funny)
I.e. non-existent.
Re:Insanity! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another URL (Score:4, Funny)
Tomorrow on Slashdot: (Score:5, Funny)
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:30AM
from the lets-get-ready-to-rumble dept.
AT&T Sues SCO
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:31AM
from the it's-an-ambush! dept.
FSF Sues SCO
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:32AM
from the wouldn't-be-a-party-without-us dept.
Apple Sues SCO
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:33AM
from the just-like-an-*ssrape dept.
Novell Sues SCO
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:34AM
from the opps-they-aint-lying dept.
Linus Torvalds Sues SCO
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:35AM
from the ELVIS-HAS-ENTERED-THE-BUILDING dept.
Redundant (Score:3, Funny)
Shock and Awe in Lindon, UT (Score:3, Funny)
CON News Anchor: "Wolf! Are you still there?..." silence "Blitzed! Are you all right?... Well ladies and gentlemen, we appear to have lost contact with our correspondent in Lindon, Wolf Blitzed."
Wolf Blitzed: "I'm OK. Repeat, I am OK. The IBM lawers are now so thick in this area that they're blocking our transmissions. One of them just came through my room and threatened to sue me until I managed to convince him that I was a member of the press - he thought I was a hiding SCO officer. I am going to have to sign off now so I can get to a more secure area... This is Wolf Blitzed CON News, Lindon, Utah...."
CON News Anchor"Ok, Wolf. Keep your head down, and whatever happens, don't sign any NDAs."
Re:Future licenses (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another URL (Score:4, Funny)
Next Day??? (Score:3, Funny)
1) print out the Unixware license document onto soft paper
2) eat taco bell
3) next day, wipe ass with license document
4) mail to SCO
5) profit!
You wait till the next day? You must be eating gourmet taco bell or something.
We are in control (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Albert Einstein on the SCO case (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe. Strong evidence certainly, but no one has actually proven that SCO's laywers are human...
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Warning! Warning! (Score:2, Funny)
2. a_n => a_n+1
3.???
4. SCO is stupid!
Re:Insanity! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tomorrow on Slashdot: (Score:3, Funny)
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:36AM
from the you-should-have-said-GNU/LINUX-in-you-briefs dept.
Easy joke. (Score:2, Funny)
You've got an extra letter in there.
I wish I had licensed a copy of AIX (Score:3, Funny)
Announcing that they are voiding licenses that were bought in good faith, bought at a time when SCO and IBM were partners, boggles the mind.
Re:Insanity! (Score:1, Funny)
but what does it mean?