and more joy from SCO

[murakami]

Lawsuits for Autozone and DaimlerChrysler

[astcell]

Who does SCO think it is! Microsoft?

[skroo]

Lawsuits for Autozone and DaimlerChrysler

And EV1, a Linux-based hosting firm, pays royalties to SCO despite there being no legally-binding reason to do so. Which may actually be a rather smart move on their part - if the case fails, they get their money back with the potential to sue for coercion; if it succeeds, they're pre-licensed.

[JiTRiF]

Seriosly, how far must SCO go, and how many people must they piss off? It's absofucking ridiculous.

[staticblac]

They are just begging for someone to create another microsoft worm the DoSes them

[JiTRiF]

They are just begging for someone to create another microsoft worm the DoSes them

we can only hope that it happens

[skroo]

we can only hope that it happens

Something about television ruining attention spans springs to mind. It did happen just over a month ago, was called W32.Mydoom.B, and was largely a non-event. Next.

[JiTRiF]

They are just begging for someone to create another microsoft worm the DoSes them

I was referring to the "another" part Skroo.

[skroo]

I was referring to the "another" part Skroo.

It won't work. See this thread for some of the reasons why.

[astcell]

Linus Torvalds needs to tell SCO they are not worthy.

[ck3k]

Linus Torvalds needs to tell SCO they are not worthy.

I think a post on slashdot awhile back had a quote of linus putting sco in their place. I really have no idea why they are going after huge companies, cars and computers, I am sure both have power lawyers who will make sco cry, or at least I hope for that to happen.

[spahkle]

I think a post on slashdot awhile back had a quote of linus putting sco in their place. I really have no idea why they are going after huge companies, cars and computers, I am sure both have power lawyers who will make sco cry, or at least I hope for that to happen.

Slashdot article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...46&mode=thread

points to this interview with Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...8110_mz063.htm

The best part was when Linus said:
"There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong."

[spahkle]

but in a nice turn of events (today on slashdot)

Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...03&mode=thread

[Webster]

we can only hope that it happens

Amen to that my brother.

[skroo]

Dont jinx it.........Dont jinx it man.......I hope this happens, /me knocks on wood.

It looks like it is, but without the lawyers.

Under the heading of 'Effective Methods of Combat': http://tinyurl.com/2bty7 to see how their stock has tanked over the last three months due largely to shareholder dissatisfaction over this whole fiasco.

Under the heading of 'Ineffective Methods of Combat': worms and denial of service attacks, which really didn't do anything except guarantee the antivirus vendors a useful little spike in sales in the normally-quiet post-Christmas sales period.