SCO swings back at Red Hat

c/net ^ | 09/15/03 | David Becker

[Salo]

More grist for the mill.

[Salo]

Paging Dr. Penguin.

[Salo]

Paging other interested parties.

[steve-b]

SCO further riled the Linux community by sending letters to 1,500 information technology managers, warning them that any use of Linux could expose them to intellectual property suits.

There you have it -- unless SCO can back up its claims with evidence of infringement, anybody who sells Linux has standing to sue them.

To site the closest analogy I can think of to SCO's actions, I seem to recall Proctor & Gamble sucessfully suing some Amway people for spreading the "devil worship" rumor....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's about time for the dump part of SCO's pump-and-dump scam.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[Salo]

They've been slow/steady dumping since this lawsuit came out. I have yet to see any of the officers buying stock at market rates.

[Blue Screen of Death]

As usual, the lawyers will make more money than the programmers and software designers.

[Rick.Donaldson]

We tore ours up (the letter). SCO can kiss my Linux @$$

[shadowman99]

If you get an invoice from them, don't tear it!!

You could win Big Money^(tm) in a Class Action Lawsuit!

[adam_az]

As usual, the lawyers will make more money than the programmers and software designers.

That's why I'm going back to finish my bachelors and then going on to law school... :) Even specialized IT skills are becoming commoditized.

[Redcloak]

SCO argued that Red Hat has no grounds to sue SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.

They have a point. A class action suit on behalf of all vendors who distribute Linux and all open source developers would be much more appropriate.

"Be careful what you wish for..."

[Coral Snake]

You three seem to have a predisposition to call Linux users "blowhards" and butcher my comments in re posting them. So take a look at THIS COMPLETE little trip down "memory lane" curtasy of TechJunkYard as I remember.

	Oh, speaking of blowhards... here's one who wants to steal the IP rights of thousands of Linux hackers...
	And here are his friends, Bozo and Bubbles.

[Nick Danger]

SCO's actions against the open-source Linux operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.

They have a point.

Well, no, they don't. The thing to understand about SCO is that their press releases tend not to reflect actual facts. Darl McBride is on tape, during his conference call with investment analysts, specifically mentioning Red Hat as a possible "infringer."

In addition to that, Red Hat's complaint states that

SCO has specifically targeted Red Hat with its campaign by repeatedly meeting with financial analysts who cover Red Hat's stock and by, among other things, inviting certain of Red Hat's institutional investors to a briefing held on or about July 22, 2003. During the July 22 briefing, SCO presented information that it knew or should have known to be false and/or misleading about any possible infringement of SCO's UNIX code by Red Hat's LINUX distribution.

SCO cannot invite another company's institutional investors to a "briefing" where they make unsubstantiated claims, and then say that "SCO's actions have not specifically targeted Red Hat." But as you can see, they say it anyway. Because they are liars.

[Coral Snake]

I wonder why these "authoritative" sources from the trolls don't report on SCO exectutives "cashing out" their stock like bilge rats attempting to leave the Titanic.

[TheEngineer]

FOOLED YOU. Up to this current session I was running WINDOWS. As a rule I just simply run the first OS on my Boot Magic double boot system and that is Win 98. I'm running Linux now so let's see if there are any more spams for a little experement.

ROFLMAO!

Care to revise your "theory" about your multiple posts being the fault of Microsoft Internet Explorer? :-)

[Petronski]

SCO's claims are not true and are solely designed to create an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt about Linux...

They mentioned FUD right there in the pleading? That's hilarious.

[Dimensio]

I'm just waiting for someone to file a motion that includes a comment about McBride "smoking crack".

[radioman]

I have windows 98 and have had nothing but trouble. Blue screen crashes and the damn thing refuses to shut down.

Everytime I get the problems fixed, they come back.

I'm considering upgrading to windows 2000, but this Linux debate has me interested.

Can Linux do everything that windows does?
Where can I get some good info on Linux?

Thanks...