Posted on 02/28/2004 1:09:29 PM PST by Bush2000
Judge accepts expanded SCO lawsuit
By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com February 27, 2004, 5:42 PM PT |
Because IBM didn't oppose SCO's motion to amend its claims--a motion that was "subject to IBM's right to move against the amended pleadings"--Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells accepted SCO's new legal attack, he said in a filing Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Utah.
The second amended complaint drops SCO's claim that IBM misappropriated trade secrets, but adds a charge of copyright infringement. SCO seeks $1 billion in damages for unfair competition and $1 billion for each of four allegations of breaching various contracts by which SCO licensed Unix to IBM and a company Big Blue acquired, Sequent.
When SCO's suit against IBM began, in March 2003, it sought more than $1 billion in damages. In April, an amendment to the suit raised the figure to $3 billion.
"The amount is starting to become breathtaking," said John Ferrell, an intellectual-property attorney at law firm Carr & Ferrell, referring to the damages SCO and its attorney, David Boies, are seeking.
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Thugs. Feh.
... More like the "Gutless Gumshoe"!
You are in an Internet forum, on one of those interminable "OS wars" threads, and you are talking like some 17-year-old punk in a biker bar. What, you gonna "call me out?"
You see why it's so easy to characterize Microsoft partisans as thugs? It's because you act like a bunch of thugs.
It's your claim. Why not back it up?
PS. Last time you made the claim that I'm paid to post by Microsoft, I offered you this same opportunity to back up your BS... But you didn't put your money where your mouth is.
You're basically just a chickensh!t blowhard.
Engineer, anyone can spout nonsense. Are you ready to "put your money where your mouth is"?
I volunteer to hold the money. When you and/or Bush2000 get your $50K cash or money order, I'll let you know where to send it.
You've accused me of posting for Microsoft as a job. I've called you on it. You can either retract or back it up. You choose neither.
And you're surprised you don't get "respect"?
You don't seem to realize that that is occurring entirely in your head. There is no objective reality in which I stated that "The Engineer is posting for Microsoft as a job."
Essentially, what I did was remark that there exist thieves. That you now jump up to say, "How dare you call me a thief" is amusing, and I am sitting here chuckling watching you do it. But it is not my problem.
No, this case is actually only really about a contract dispute
Trade secrets, no, copyright, no contract dispute...
Doesn't it seem odd to you that SCO can't seem to get their own claim right? Or is this another instance of their secret superior lawyering skills?
Main Entry: shill
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps short for shillaber, of unknown origin
1 : one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler);
also : one who makes a sales pitch
As a horrible thing to be accused of, how do you suppose that stacks up against, "You're smoking crack" or "you and the other OSS morons"? You have an awfully thin skin for a guy who has no trouble hurling insults right and left. Do you believe that you can be as rude and insulting as you want, but that we'll call in the lawyers and "have a talk with Mr. Robinson" if someone says something that offends you? I'm sorry, but you have to learn how to play well with others. To start with, you can't call people every name in the book and then whine about it if somebody shoots back.
...and don't forget 'chickensh!t'!
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