Re: [Fsfe-uk] Amusing BBC interview.

[Paul]

Hi,

> > If you want a real laugh, have a look at the amendments as detailed on
> > groklaw.net - it's brilliant. They've changed it so that they are no
> > longer protecting their IP, but are wanting to establish it exists!
> 
> Oh gods, it's got even better since I last looked there (soon after
> their submission was posted).  Is there any of their submission which
> holds water at all?

Only for the SEC, IBM and Novell - I can imagine the court room on
Friday when SCO go in and try to get the judge to compell IBM, it should
be recorded and issued on DVD in the 101 courtroom laugh-ins or how
*not* to file a court case.

I think it is more interesting that if SCOs stock drops (as it will and
is), Darl still gets his bonuses and that the amounts given over to the
legal team. Some of the wording used beggars belief - to save time,
they're complaining that competition is bad and all the rubbish they've
been putting out has meant people aren't using their product.

It's almost as interesting as the amount MS and Sun have paid for their
licences. As they've not paid Novell yet, IIRC Novell can revoke the
licences and M$'s evil Services for Unix would have to be pulled (not
that anyone [other than a few real PHBs] is taking it seriously). Now
*that* would be fun and SCO would end up in the dock again (I'm
expecting IBM, RedHat and Novell to try and prevent chapter 11 and get
their respective scrapeings from the carcus in court)

> (I mean, going from "we have evidence of millions of lines of copied
> code" to "we want your latest code so we can try to find evidence that
> you donated your work to Linux" was bad enough, and I knew about the JFS
> issue from earlier statements, but now they are asking for a later
> version of something when one hasn't been written?)

The daftest one is that they're asking for a newer version of Dynix
(dead) and if you read carefully, are claiming that OS/2 is theirs as
well!

Wow!

I mean, what next? SCO claim RISC OS is theirs?

TTFN

Paul
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