Posted on 03/01/2004 4:53:45 PM PST by Bush2000
SCO to sue Linux user Tuesday
Last modified: March 1, 2004, 4:35 PM PST
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
SAN FRANCISCO--The SCO Group plans to expand its Linux legal attack on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against a large company using the open-source operating system.
SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name.
SCO, which owns a disputed amount of Unix intellectual property and claims some of the code was improperly used in Linux, threatened in November to sue Linux users, although it missed a self-imposed mid-February deadline.
"We missed by a couple weeks. The first one won't show up until tomorrow," McBride said. After his speech he said the company has two potential targets.
"We've been in communication with them" about the license issue, McBride said. "Now it's time to move to the litigation part of the enforcement."
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That will surely manufacture more lawsuits! We'll all be rich!
For now.
Of course! I should have realized... the quarterly earnings report is due this week and they need a diversion to capture the investors' attention while they roll out the embarassing numbers for the analysts.
Some patsies out there are still looking for $45. Heh. Get ready for a dump.
SCO is just one of many companies attempting to assert such rights, and the courts will determine the validity (which many doubt will withstand).
Even if SCO fails, this is just the beginning of the end of the first era. Copyrights and patents will continue to be asserted during the year. Consider the growing rate of software patent infringement cases [against Ebay, Microsoft, paypal, the adult business, and many other business groups]. Even Google has been amassing a patent portfolio. The number of software related lawsuits are increasing dramatically, and this gives credence to the end of the first era philosophy.
I am sure by now all of the freepers have read the entire 101 pages of the "PROMOTING INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE SPECIAL PROBLEM OF DIGITAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY", A Report by the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development. The report is trying not a policy, nor a recommendation, but only a report for learning about copyright issues. It did not really touch on the subject of software patents, but ultimately that too will have to be dealt with.
On the plus side, welcome to the beginning of the dawn of the next era.
Must not have since he had the mod pull it.
I posted some info about an out-of-court settlement in which SCO (Germany) was agreed to stop making the same claims they are making in the US, or be fined about $12,500 per occurrence. I went to dinner and returned to see if anyone had anything to add, and found the thread had disappeared.
Frankly, I was surprised. B2K is usually willing to debate endlessly with anyone, but I've never observed him to complain to the moderators, much less delete an entire thread. A while back, I saw a couple of threads deleted due to "too many complaints" after B2K got into it with multiple people at a time, but I didn't think he was doing the complaining.
I'm really curious about what happened.
Here's the URL:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040301025634926
It's a translation of an article in German.
They should have been looking into this instead of wasting all those resources trying to hang Martha for her piddly little sell order(that they ended up losing). Which as it turns out she shouldn't have done since the drug in question was recently approved by the FDA.
Guess Martha's having on of those Homer Simpson "D'oh" moments.
Me too.
You don't think the German court judgement had anything to do with it? Or is B2K starting to feel he's fighting a losing battle?
I hear Longhorn is being delayed to 06 or possibly 08. Given Linux's development cycle; That's going to give Linux some room to grow.
The IRS?
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