Thursday, November 20. 2003
SCO is really getting ridiculous
SCO's lawsuit against IBM and every Linux user on the planet is starting to devolve into the ridiculous. SCO CEO Darl McBride claimed that IBM was given a list of the source code, people and copyrights that violated IBM's agreement for the Unix source code.IBM, however, has since submitted a request for discovery for the information. So wha, exactly, did SCO give IBM.
Well, Groklaw has printed a very interesting article on a reverse engineering of the SCO information, and discovered that SCO used very sophisticated legal tools to generate their lists - find, grep and Google.
In other SCO news, SCO has pissed off enough people that they had to hire bodyguards. (That's a subscription site -- see the article text in the extended entry)
And now they're going after BSD Slashdot, too.
*From the LA Times*
Guards Protecting SCO Execs After Threats
From Bloomberg News
SCO Group Inc. said bodyguards were protecting its top executives after the software maker received death threats for claiming to own programming code in the Linux operating system and demanding fees from users.
Backers of so-called open-source software such as Linux, whose code can be modified by users, have denounced SCO since it sued IBM Corp. in March for copyright infringement. SCO is seeking as much as $50 billion in damages from IBM and has said it would bill companies using Linux.
Guards Protecting SCO Execs After Threats
From Bloomberg News
SCO Group Inc. said bodyguards were protecting its top executives after the software maker received death threats for claiming to own programming code in the Linux operating system and demanding fees from users.
Backers of so-called open-source software such as Linux, whose code can be modified by users, have denounced SCO since it sued IBM Corp. in March for copyright infringement. SCO is seeking as much as $50 billion in damages from IBM and has said it would bill companies using Linux.
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