SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In 770
Sparky writes "We've already heard that SCO have invoked the DMCA via 'letters sent to select Fortune 1000 Linux end users.' The specifics come via a copy of the letter reprinted at LWN.net - they've decided that they own the copyright to about 65 header files contained in Linux - largely errno.h, signal.h and ioctl.h." balloonpup also notes "CNet News has reported that SCO has reported a fourth quarter loss of $1.6 million, owing mostly to hefty legal fees in its war against Linux. SCO said they would have reported $7.4 million in earnings, if not for the $9 million payout to their lawyers. Way to go, SCO!" Many readers also point out a Groklaw article indicating Novell has registered for the copyrights on multiple versions of Unix with the U.S. Copyright Office, so that "both the SCO Group and Novell have registered for UNIX System V copyrights for the same code."
Copyrighted Errors (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You people called it upon yourselves (Score:3, Funny)
Law is Hard (Score:5, Funny)
I don't want to read all those links. Is there any way that I can make fun of Microsoft based on any of this? That would make it easier. TIA
Pull troops out of Iraq... (Score:3, Funny)
A more fun (accurate?) version of this posting... (Score:5, Funny)
"We've already heard that SCO have invoked the winged minions of hell via 'voodoo dools shaped like the CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies.' The specifics come via a photo of a doll made to look like Samuel J. Palmisano of IBM - they've decided that they own the souls of about 65 CEOs running Linux - largely IBM, HP and Ford." balloonpup also notes "CNet News has reported that SCO has reported a fourth quarter loss of $1.6 million, owing mostly to hefty witchdoctor and soothsayer fees in its war against Linux. SCO said they would have reported $7.4 million in earnings, if not for the $9 million payout to the Prince of Darkness. Way to go, SCO!" Many readers also point out a Groklaw article indicating Novell has been praying for the souls of CEOs running Linux with the Holy Catholic Church, so that "both the SCO Group and Novell have claimed the souls of the same people."
login.h (Score:5, Funny)
Ruckus and tomfoolery, indeed! (Score:5, Funny)
What an odd business model (Score:5, Funny)
So SCO has changed from a technology company to an employment agency for lawyers? I'd be interest to see what the step was just before "Profit!"
With great power... (Score:5, Funny)
If SCO wants to claim ownership of things in errno.h, then I want monetary compensation for each and every segfault, since they are now SCO's responsibility, not mine!
Boy, no more having to double-check pointers in my code, whoo hoo!
DMCA vs Godwin's Law (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's what usually happens (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know how much I really got screwed (hell, I didn't even know there was a lawsuit -- I wonder how they even found my current adddress!). The letter states it was "not practical to provide individual caculations" for the refunds. Yeah, right!
I know sure as shit that the lawyers got a hell of a lot more than two checks totalling less than a dollar!
Dear Santa (Score:5, Funny)
My christmas wish is for the SCO stockholders to wake up and realize they're being taken for a ride. That way the rest of the world could get on with their lives without worrying about being bitten in the ankles by Daryl McBride. For Daryl, I wish a long stay in the relaxing resort for his kind of folk known as Utah State Prison. I wish for him a large roommate named Bubba.
Peace.
An ordinary Linux user.
Could I use that excuse? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, can I use that excuse? I would have been in the black this month if I had not had to pay my bills. But seriously, this really tells a great deal of SCO's financial picture. Their money is running out. Their legal bills are mounting. This letter is nothing more than it appears: Desperation to get any last revenue that they can get.
On another note, has anybody looked at the headers that SCO has mentioned. I'm willing to bet that some of them are legacy to BSD not SCO.
Re:checking out insider holdings (Score:5, Funny)
I see these men having big problems with the SEC in the future.
drinking game: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:not just Linux... (Score:4, Funny)
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello, Darl\n");
return (0);
}
Hey, did I just violate a SCO license?
Re:not just Linux... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What an odd business model (Score:5, Funny)
??
Profit!
Re:What an odd business model (Score:2, Funny)
This is worth a lawsuit?! (Score:3, Funny)
This is a joke. Less than a joke - this is like the framework of a joke, without the topics or punchline filled in. It's like Microsoft hiring Yakov Smirnoff [yakov.com] to sue anyone on Slashdot who had a
Ryan Fenton
TTV, behind the code. (Score:2, Funny)
HA HA HA, SCO! (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, SCO is definitely going down. Anyone have new ideas on what I should put up on SCO Report [ibmlawsuit.com] or SCO Countdown [scocountdown.com]?
Breakdown (Score:5, Funny)
Earnings for SCO: -1.6 million
Watching SCO die and set a precedent for anybody who tries stupid legal things with Linux: Priceless
Re:With great power... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Law is Hard (Score:3, Funny)
Penguin Blood Ninja Fiasco!! [ubergeek.tv]
Shameless self plug....
Re:Law is Hard (Score:2, Funny)
At first glance... (Score:5, Funny)
On second thought, maybe that wasn't so inaccurate.
Re:DMCA vs Godwin's Law (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That's what usually happens (Score:5, Funny)
Screw this (Score:3, Funny)
Dear lord man, learn to spell (Score:1, Funny)
articals - articles
clame - claim
alowed - allowed
Re:What happened to '4 quarters of profitabiity'? (Score:2, Funny)
(*) Your regular six feet tall, three hundred pound heavy "host" on a proper federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Re:Maybe so... (Score:2, Funny)
But it's more than likely a bunch of straight, heterosexual, penile/vaginal-obsessed junkies not only wrote it, but voted it into law. Let's keep things in perspective here.
Re:HA HA HA, SCO! (Score:1, Funny)
Mac OS 9 and earlier (Score:2, Funny)
The next logical step... (Score:2, Funny)
Some more SCO code... (Score:2, Funny)
$ cat
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
# All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
# actual or intended publication of such source code.
#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI"
exit 255
Re:not just Linux... (Score:3, Funny)
HAhaha... (Score:1, Funny)
OH wait... he didn't veto.. it... oh yeah...
Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA (Score:5, Funny)
SCO, "DMCA"; FSF, "STFU"
Re:not just Linux... use do-while loop (Score:4, Funny)
This is off topic, but your macro itself has problems. It permits its use without a statement-terminating semicolon. It is always best to define multi-statement macro blocks with a do-while loop as:
Notice no semicolon after the "while(0)". This makes it an error to omit the semicolon after the macro's use, and thus behaves more like an actual function in syntax. Oh, and this is one case where you really DO want the parenthesis around the return "value" x inside the macro, since "x" is not a variable but a macro argument which could contain a semicolon.
Re:Vote bush out of office (Score:5, Funny)
"Loser pays" only benefits corporations (Score:5, Funny)
CEO: Perfect.
Smithers: WHAT?! Do you know what this means?
CEO: I know EXACTLY what it means. It means we'll hire the most expensive lawyers we can find. It means that no one will risk paying a million dollars in legal fees if they lose their ten grand lawsuit against us. It means when we sue people, they'll settle because the cost of losing just got higher. It means that we can rip off the customer even more! We'll have the best lawyers in the country - we're bound to win, and we'll make our victims pick up the tab! Yessss, this is EXACTLY what we wanted....
Re: Re:not just Linux... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear EricTheGreen,
Your recent Slashdot post, titled "Re:not just Linux..." and currently moderated at +4/Funny, is in violation of the DMCA.
As you are probably aware, we have granted the general public a limited license to the character '\n' and this license does not include its representation in "escaped" format ('\n').
We hereby order you to remove the comment or to change it so that the copyrighted character in question is displayed in its properly licensed format, namely:
Be advised that this also applies to any posts you may make in the future, regardless of how they are moderated, and that similar restrictions apply to the character '\r' to which we own the copyright jointly with the Microsoft Corporation.
Failure to comply will result in legal fees.
Sincerely,
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, on behalf of SCO.
How dare you... (Score:4, Funny)
They will soon come and close slashdot down.
Darl's brother is hard at work (Score:3, Funny)
Nice to see that $9 million in legal fees is going to great use.
Re:SIG Must gooo! its the gay GOATSE.CX guy (Score:3, Funny)
>
> Long ago I quit clicking on slashdot sig links. *Especially* when it has goat in the link text
This is a SCO thread. Pictures of Darl McBride may be repulsive, but they're definitely on topic.
Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA (Score:1, Funny)
Well, until yours, anyway. Comments like "the DMCA is gayer than the YMCA" don't really bother me, and I'm gay. For real, even.
The word means different things to different people. I don't get offended when the six year olds on South Park use "gay" pejoratively, because (alas) six year olds in the United States really talk like that.
Apparently so do the six year olds on slashdot. :)
Re:OK, let's rewrite errno.h (Score:2, Funny)
EPERM = 1,
ENOENT = 2,
ESRCH = 3,
EINTR = 4,
EIO = 5,
ENXIO = 6,
E2BIG = 7,
ECHILD = 10,
EGAGAIN = 11,
ENOMEM = 12,
EACCESS = 13,
EFAULT = 14,
ENOTBLK = 15,
EBUSY = 16,
EEXIST = 17,
EXDEV = 18,
ENODEV = 19,
EINVAL = 22,
ENFILE = 23,
EMFILE = 24,
EFBIG = 27,
ENOSPC = 28,
EROFS = 30,
Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA (Score:4, Funny)