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- waddling, on 11/24/2008, -0/+59You can't spell Fiasco without SCO!
- inactive, on 11/24/2008, -0/+49SCO, new business model failing is it?
- YodaJones, on 11/24/2008, -4/+40Eat ***** SCO. Next up: Microsoft.
- falafelkiosken, on 11/24/2008, -0/+34justice is served
- crapuccino, on 11/24/2008, -0/+29'SCOin' down!
- spritom, on 11/24/2008, -0/+26What happened Darl? I thought you had all your mountains of evidence that you were going to show the world?
From 2003 - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1016-999371.html
McBride refused to detail which specific code had been copied but said there were several instances--"some of them go back several years, and others are recent"--and said the copying was "not minor." SCO, however, won't publish what it's found.
"We feel very good about the evidence that is going to show up in court. We will be happy to show the evidence we have at the appropriate time in a court setting," - inactive, on 11/24/2008, -0/+22Anyone want to by some ScoSource licenses? Believe it or not, they're still trying to sell it.
http://www.sco.com/scosource/license_program.html - col381, on 11/24/2008, -0/+20SCO Unix was always a crappy piece of software from the word go, it used to fail constantly. To think - if they had jumped on the Linux bandwagon from the early days instead of trying to corner the market and claim ownership of something that was never theirs, they would be a thriving business today with an excellent future ahead of them, but instead they played it greedy and in the end got what they deserved.
Die SCO and good riddance to you. Long live Linux. - inactive, on 11/24/2008, -0/+10I'd like to say something witty, but this is all I have:
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHA - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 11/24/2008, -0/+10Woohoo! Finally, it's all over! Hopefully we'll never hear about SCO ever again. Ever.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+111. sue
2. ???
3. profit - crapuccino, on 11/24/2008, -0/+10The problem with monkeys in a cage is that they tend to fling ***** at passers by.
No changes there for Darl then. - DangerCollie, on 11/24/2008, -0/+10Ha-ha!
- sliksta, on 11/24/2008, -0/+10Darl McBride just don't give up do he. He reminds me of a monkey with it's arm stuck outside a cage because it refuses to let go of something. Put the guy in a cage already.
- jsmithers, on 11/24/2008, -4/+13JUST REMEMBER - SCO is just the fall guy here (bad though they are of course).
It is MICROSOFT that was behind this (in probably the least surprising bit of news ever) so this is:
a.) A giant F.U.C.K. RIGHT OFF to Microsoft, who only seem to be capable of evil.
b.) Yet ANOTHER wake up call to all those sad individuals in the world who think that Microsoft are in any way, shape or form a decent company. They're not. Wake up. And if you're still not convinced check out the OOXML battle and the corruption of the ISO - more filthy tactics that can be laid directly at Microsoft's front door. - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+10They should fly to Washington and demand a bail out.
- asaone, on 11/25/2008, -0/+9Mickysoft offered to bankroll SCO while it tried to lie and cheat and bully it's way to a large payday that never was there. Someone really needs to go to jail for this. A scam nothing more I nominate big/little Steve and Chris, and Bill and all the idiots involved on the SCO side go to jail do not pass go straight to the worst Mexican jail, not club fed.
- jellygraph, on 11/25/2008, -1/+10Typing this on my iPod, which is charging on my mac, which is transfering files to the samba share on my Linux laptop. In the morning, I will login to my Linux workstation at my job to administrate 50+ Linux servers, while the rest of my company logs into their roaming profile, hosted on our Linux server with file & print sharing. The only thing that is windows in my company is the desktop the non-technical staff uses, and that may well change soon. Telling you this just because I honestly think you are assuming perhaps too much and that the figure may likely be higher than 5%. you just may not notice it, like the non-techies at my work
- mythicflux, on 11/24/2008, -0/+9BOOM HEADSHOT!
- snafflepaffle, on 11/24/2008, -0/+9Don't know about that... Novell probably spent upwards of $20-30 million on lawyering just to get $3 million back.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have done it, but saying that it looks to me like the system was gamed to give SCO more time to flail about with it's losing strategy. Justice delayed is justice denied. - oboshoe, on 11/24/2008, -0/+8copyright ownage.
die SCO die! - angryfirelord, on 11/25/2008, -0/+8SCO had a business model?
- digggggggggg, on 11/24/2008, -0/+84 years too late. This whole thing should have been completely over back in 2004.
So, a company with absolutely incredible claims collects a few pieces of circumstantial evidence that it refuses to reveal without an NDA, then proceeds to extort licensing fees for free software that they have absolutely no right to. From there, they go on to sue other companies over the same incredible claims.
How the hell did they manage to get away with it for half a decade? - crunchdigg, on 11/25/2008, -0/+7well, actually, it came out in trial that SCO's own attempt to prove that there was infringing code,
the work of "4 to 6 months", found no infringement.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050715-5099 ...
"At the end, we had found absolutely *nothing*. ie no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever." - internal SCO email, presented at trial. - sexybobo, on 11/24/2008, -3/+10Microsoft isn't sueing another company for stealing software they themselves are stealing and i dont think 2.5 million will bankrupt Microsoft like it did SCO
- sexybobo, on 11/24/2008, -0/+6wish it could have been said 5 years ago when the case was started
- mmeiser, on 11/24/2008, -5/+11Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
As Mayor of the Munchkin City, In the County of the Land of Oz, I welcome you most regally.
But we've got to verify it legally, to see
To see?
If she
If she?
Is morally, ethic'lly
Spiritually, physically
Positively, absolutely
Undeniably and reliably Dead
As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her.
And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
Then this is a day of Independence For all the Munchkins and their descendants
If any.
Yes, let the joyous news be spread The wicked Old Witch at last id dead!
To premature? :) - 4321234, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6Microsoft paid license fees to SCO for unix. That's what financed SCO's legal battles with Novell. SCO didn't even own the rights to unix and why in the hell would Microsoft pay fees for something they had no use for, anyways?
- mobling, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6Good and about time too. The hell with scumbag people in scumbag companies. Citibank next?? wish wish.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/24/2008, -0/+6So again, to microsoft: SHOW US THE CODE. They are banging the same drum.
- netneutrality, on 11/24/2008, -0/+6Got 13 cents? Then you too can own a share of SCO stock! http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC%3ASCOXQ
Now is actually the ideal time to buy. There's nothing to lose. - sexybobo, on 11/24/2008, -1/+7I wonder how many companies paid that? The ones that did should sue SCO for extortion.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6Couldnt have happened to a more deserving "company".
I always wonder what the board meeting was like when they decided to stop selling an actual product or service and become a patent troll:
"Alright ladies and gentlemen of the board, I propose we stop all programs, services, and products, and start a new department solely focused on filing frivolous and baseless patent suits against other software companies. All in favor?" - Spr0k3t, on 11/24/2008, -1/+6The mountains in which McBride spoke of were not the evidence originally intended. They were the missing parts (two and three) of Microsoft's OOXML white sheet documentation. When Darl Vadar came to, he asked what has happened to his beloved Padme SCO only to find her in ruins he replied "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- kingmanic, on 11/24/2008, -0/+5I doubt it. The long on going litigation from SCO wasn't against Novell. SCO's long running litigation was with IBM. Novell merely stepped in to remind them they owned nothing and were only allowed to be a salesman for Novell. The settlement includes lawyers fees. So it's spending less then 3 mil to get 3mil. Although the way SCO's looks financial means it's a "theoretical" 3 mil.
- sigmaman2, on 11/24/2008, -0/+5You never know...in a few years they may be like Baseball cards.
- spritom, on 11/24/2008, -1/+6y'aarrrrrrr!
- Spr0k3t, on 11/24/2008, -1/+6Is that it? Wow. Imagine if SCO collected a single penny from every Linux user, they probably could have made that easily with a few mil to spare.
- thungurknifur, on 11/24/2008, -0/+5Finally!
- JockeTF, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5For great justice.
- Pr0fess0rX29, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4It is a matter of fact that Microsoft financed SCO's court run. Now it seems they lost some money doing that. It's pretty sad though that they are actually going to make all their money back in licensing fee's Novell is paying them.
- Vadi0, on 11/24/2008, -1/+5They'd be rich then! Since at least 60% of the people use Google, (and this Digg, and a ton of other websites), they're all using linux.
(har) - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4Huzzah!
- sexybobo, on 11/24/2008, -2/+6but Microsoft isn't stupid enough to sue linux.
- mrBitch, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4@col381 RE: " SCO Unix was always a crappy piece of software from the word go, it used to fail constantly."
...Well SCO Unix was essentially a re-licensed version of Microsoft's " Xenix ", so no wonder it was so crappy. - mrBitch, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4Well, actually, according to Microsoft. MS were funding SCO's legal battles against Novell as well as against IBM for using Linux.
- Zcubed, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4I don't like seeing companies fail, but there are some that deserve to die a slow miserable death like SCO and Blockbuster.
With the final nail in SCO's coffin, Blockbuster needs to die and I will be happy. - mrBitch, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4@4321234 RE: " Microsoft paid license fees to SCO for unix. That's what financed SCO's legal battles with Novell. SCO didn't even own the rights to unix and why in the hell would Microsoft pay fees for something they had no use for, anyways? "
Bingo! We have a winner! Absolutely correct. Microsoft was funding SCO's legal battles against both Novell and IBM. - kolobcreek, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4They first big settlement with MS for DR-DOS. Fits in perfectly with their Business Plan. Buy defunct technology. Sue the someone. Wonder what they're going to buy next?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/02/07 ...
I love how they spent around 30 Million on lawyer fees and only get fined 1/10 of that. - AzureRise, on 11/24/2008, -0/+3Or not.
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