SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo

a.ameri writes "On Friday, June 20, the Provo Linux Users Group decided to head on over to SCO's offices and hold a protest; information on the event, including pictures and press coverage, can be found on the PLUG page. Among other things, the protesters claim that SCO employes came out and joined the event holding pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux.'" There are some funny shots linked here (thanks to reader lucif latum). Daddio64 points to the press covereage in the Deseret News and Provo Daily Herald.

Commie Scare

[bstadil]

Even though

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be !

it's hard not to feel a little sentimental when you see good old Commie Scare posters.

Guess the employees protesting felt akin to the Iraqs cheering Sadam at his strolling casual thru streets of Baghdad TV shows.

SCO employees

[mocm]

Wouldn't SCO employees be better advised to write their resumees, instead of protesting. They probably will have to get new jobs soon. Not that they seem busy doing anything else.
And it doesn't matter whether SCO wins or loses. They seem to be an IP (not that they ever created any) only company now and would probably not need many employees, except for lawyers.

Re:Mad?

[GlassUser]

This is rich. I think I am starting to like SCO. Kinda in the way you liked the nerd in middle school, and would save the special lunch money theft for him.

Ok, I read it.

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO still sucks.

Re:Image Problems?

[Kaeru the Frog]

"Who's Down With IPOP - Other People's Intellectual Property" with Tux saying "I'm Down I'm Down"

Naughty by Nature promptly treatened to sue SCO for unauthorized use of it copyrighted material. When asked what matereal exactly was copied, Naughty by Nature refused to say claiming if they disclosed they risked others also using it without their permission.

As bugs would say:

[conteXXt]

"Of course you know, this means war!"

Re:Image Problems?

[netsharc]

Legalize Stupidity alright, because at the moment SCO is breaking the law with copious amounts of it.

MAN, ARE YOU EVER FIRED!

[YOU ARE SO FIRED!]

Yeah, it is too bad you're not an SCO shareholder. Then you'd at least have a tiny amount of money to spend on groceries that you could snack on while standing in the unemployment line. Come on, take a hike. You're fired. You can come in on Saturday to pick up your belongings (such as they are). Now, I'm going to get some ice cream and then crawl into my bed made mostly of $100 dollar bills and ripped up resumes.

What's the big deal about the signs? They're kinda funny. I'd wear a shirt (on my off days, of course) that said, "I Don't Pay For Music - I Don't Pay For My O.S. Either."

Pretty busy those SCO people

[arcanumas]

As much as i hate SCO i have to admit that some of these SCO posters are actually nice.
I can't help but wonder how much coding thy do and how much drawing.
If their people did as much coding as drawing they would not be in this position right now.

Re:Uh, note to SCO

[SpaceLifeForm]

It's a bit more that just a last-ditch attempt at saving a dying company.

Ouch! Ok, ok, so I lied.

Conversation between SCO and AIX

[Bruj0]

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

Contra protest totally understandable

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

what else would a non-lawyer sco employee be doing all day ?

Re:Image Problems?

[Dumbush]

Dude, havn't you learn from our leader? You can never go wrong blaming Iraq, France, and communism.

Now to all hawks, rejoice!
Hail Bush!

Re:Contra protest totally understandable

[Anonymous Coward]

what else would a non-lawyer sco employee be doing all day ?

Well, the obvious answer is...

Sucking

Cock

Often

Re:pro-linux sco employees

[WCMI92]

"I wonder how many SCO employees are actually pro-linux, but are afraid to say anything, against their own company....."

Does SCaldera have any employees left who aren't lawyers?

YOU'RE A DUMBASS

[eupheric]

...just kidding!

Fact : SCO is dying

[Sevn]

It is official; IBM confirms: SCO is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent IBM survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Microsoft Zealot to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time unixware developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: unixware is dying.

All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.

Fact: SCO is dying

Who wants to sue SCO

[mormop]

* I love software piracy
* I don't pay for my music, I'm not paying for my os, so sue me
* My son stole code & published it! And all I got was this lousy t-shirt
* Try communism - use Linux


Are these premium grade idiots trying to get sued or what?

1) I am not a software Pirate and have not knowingly used ripped of software. Until the point SCO made their claims over Linux it was under no suspicion of being hooky and until the case and or an injunction it remains that way.

2) I do not download music, I spend most of my time listening to the radio and have more important things to do than rip music off.

3) I am not a communist, although if you litigation monkeys are a sign of capitalism to come I'm thinking there must be a better alternative.

Thanks to those who took the photos, they may come in handy if I ever decide to sue SCO for Libel. Given that these comments are apparently aimed at the entire Linux community how many people are up for a class action suit.

Up yours SCO, you really are a bunch of sad tossers.

Absolute worst-case scenario?

[Cid Highwind]

Assume the worst case: SCO wins hands-down

The Linux kernel is found to be a willful violation of SCO's UNIX copyright. In the US, the statutory penalty for willful infringment of copyright is $150,000US per infringment (in this case, every installed Linux kernel would be an infringment) Suddenly, the business community owes SCO $150,000 per Linux server. Most home users owe more than their life's savings. Many will go bankrupt. Google (with 10s of thousands of Linux machines in it's data center) disappears in a puff of debt. Redhat, and any other US-based distros are responsible for several million infringments each, and are liquidated to pay a small fraction of the fine. People and companies in nations that have "harmonized" their copyright laws with the US (poor fools!) are subjected to the same treatment. SCO will continue to prosecute Linux developers and users around the world.

End result: By 2008, SCO and their lawyers own 34% or the world's wealth. They buy IBM, Sun, SGI and Microsoft, fire the R&D teams, and start collecting "licensing fees" on their new-found patent portfolio. In 2012, the last independent business in the world sells to SCO to settle a $428,997,646,251US patent/copyright/trademark infringment suit. SCO now owns 84% of the world's wealth. In 2016, SCO test-detonates a nuclear weapon. France surrenders. In a series of hostile takeovers, SCO strongarms its way into the UN security council. By now most permanent UNSC member governments are subsidiaries of SCO. 2032: SCO disbands the UN, and renames it's constituent nations "branch offices". The head of SCO's official title is changed from "President and CEO" to "Emperor of Earth". Members of the board are granted heredetary feifdoms and titles. By 2045 the entire world's economy has reverted back to subsistence agriculture, since it is the only economic activity SCO doesn't have patents on. Starvation and economic stagnation take their toll, hundreds of millions of people starve, and a billion more die in wars that break out all over the earth. The entire world sinks into another dark age.

Still think it's harmless to let SCO win? :D

Re:Original LWN discussion

[the gnat]

Indeed, this despite the increasingly obvious fact that the French were right.

This rests on the dubious assumption that the French foreign policy is dictated by anything other than greed and anti-Americanism. I'm about to reach the point where I hold my nose and vote for Bush in 2004 just because it'll piss off the French and Germans for another four years.

Re:Image Problems?

[rifter]

Hmm, that reminds me. I am out of cheeto's... mmmmm cheetos...

Apologies in advance

[alexburke]

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fr IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

Re:Contra protest totally understandable

[cyroth]

Rewriting the SCO kernel and adding in lines from HURD? Might as well take out two birds with one stone. Or 2 OS'es with one lie ^H^H^H legitimate lawsuit

Re:Original LWN discussion

[hesiod]

> Do you think we're as stupid as you?

Well, since America was made up of mostly Europeans, yes, we are exactly as stupid as you.