SCO's claims Against Daimler-Chrysler Thrown Out

Zak3056 writes "According to eyewittness reports published on Groklaw, SCO has been all but thrown out of court in their suit against Daimler-Chrysler. In a hearing that lasted 18 minutes with the judge ruling from the bench, all of SCO's claims, save that DCC failed to file their required certification with 30 days, were dismissed."

I hear SCO secretly settled

[Anonymous Coward]

For a free car. It was all they really wanted anyway.

18 minutes?

[SIGALRM]

Why'd it take so long?

And there was Much Rejoycing

[GoClick]

And there was Much Rejoycing, Now lets all go out and buy a hemi.

Only one thing to say.

[BlueCup]

Pwn'ed.

Re:I hear SCO secretly settled

[OECD]

For a free car.

Actually, it's a $699 lease.

SCOX down 7.5% in 3 hours

[Bob 4knee]

New yearly lows. Heck of a business plan

Re:I hear SCO secretly settled

[stanmann]

And they are going to sue to repossess it If any of them ever leave Utah, with or without the car. And if anyone not affiliated with SCO gets into the car.

Re:18 minutes?

[musikit]

clerk announces judge's arrival: 1 minute
judge repositions himself in chair: 1 minute
clerk announces case number : 1 minute
parties walk to tables: 1 minute
judge reads over case notes: 2 minutes
judge questions SCO about claims + SCO response: 5 mintues
judge questions DCC about claims + DCC response: 3 minutes
judge reams out SCO and tells them they are stupid : 3 minutes
SCO walking out with their tail between their legs : 1 minute

total 18 minutes.

New suit

[glaserud]

SCO thrown out of a Daimler-Chrysler? I see a faulty-door/locks-suit in the near future.

Actually took 10 minutes

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

But SCO tried to file a TRO against the Circuit Court of Michigan. It appears the court uses Linux Servers, to handle all of the court dosument distribution. SCO claimed that a TRO was in order because the issuance of the Dismissal would result in irreperable harm. The Judge promptly dismissed the TRO in 2 minutes. The remaining 6 minutes were taken up with everybody in the courtroom ROTFLTAO.

SCO: this is a clear victory for SCO!

[wardk]

Time for SCO to deploy that famous Iraqi spokeperson.


We have destroyed the Chrysler infidels and their heads now adorn pikes along all interstates leading into Utah.

Re:18 minutes?

[Blacklantern]

It took 17 minutes to read over the allegations.

Re:18 minutes?

[SatanicPuppy]

You obviously haven't heard many judges talk.

"The court here *breaths from oxygen mask* finds...that the plaintif...the Santa Cruz Operations group...has made...claims...that ...are...groundless...and lacking...basis...in fact...Now...I will...list...the four-hundred ...and twenty...legal precidents...*Deep breath of oxygen*...on which I...based...my desicion."

It's an Outrage!

[Anonymous Coward]

In China, it takes only a week from accusation to execution, but here we let SCumO blather on for so long before crumbling slowly! Why can't we be more like ... oh, wait, nevermind.

Re:18 minutes?

[lacrymology.com]

You forgot Doug Llewelyn's closing interviews and comments.

-m

Re:18 minutes?

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO being told to fsck themselves...timeless.

Re:Stock price already in a nosedive

[Euphonious Coward]

Time to buy!

It's funny, you can see the zigzags in the downward slope -- people really are thinking that.

See SCO.

[Araneas]

See SCO.
See SCO Tank [yahoo.com]
Tank, SCO tank!

Transcript of the Hearing

[superpulpsicle]

SCO lawyers: The code was stolen from us

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: Sir please look at exhibit A. It clearly shows...

SCO lawyers: Fsck you!

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: Your honor the code is not...

SCO lawyers: STFU. You stole our code.

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: Excuse me but...

SCO lawyers: I saw you steal it.

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: ...

SCO lawyers: I have a video tape of it, but my dog ate it.

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: ...

SCO lawyers: Show me the money. Show me the money!!!

Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: ...

SCO lawyers: (In LOTR voice) Your code is Mine!

Pronunciation Guide

[DavidBrown]

In America, Daimler-Chrysler is pronounced "Daym-ler Cry-sler".

In Germany, however, the Chrysler is silent.

Re:18 minutes?

[LiquidCoooled]

I didn't know William Shatner was a judge?

I wish...

[brufleth]

I wish this case was handled by someone like Judge Judy who would entertain all of us with her insulting tirade about how SCO has wasted everyone's time and money and how they should be ashamed of themselves.

Re:SCO: this is a clear victory for SCO!

[bhima]

chrysler's failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell taxpayers and the domestic public to keep them deceived. We will embroil them, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes. May they be accursed."

Re:18 minutes?

[BrynM]

Maybe being a judge is one of William Shatner's other jobs... He's working under a pseudonym

(Holding his gavel in a very Macbeth way with that half surprised, half constipated melodramatic expression) "Spock... would-you... please... approach-the-bench?"

Re:Stock price already in a nosedive

[ballista]

Even better check out: http://ir.sco.com/calculator.cfm [sco.com] and see how a default investment in sco is doing ;)

Re:Transcript of the Hearing

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO lawyers: Fsck you!

Cheney is an SCO lawyer ?

Re:18 minutes?

[tomhudson]

No, the judge had to speak very very very s-l-o-w-l-y so that she would be sure SCO would understand.

That, and constantly pinching herself to keep from laughing.

Priceless

[write_with_numbers]

License for 1 processor server Linux from SCO:$699
License for desktop Linux from SCO: $199
License for embedded Linux from SCO: $35

Judgement that will make this ridiculous house of cards begin imploding: Priceless

There are some things that money can't buy.
Even Microsoft's money.

Re:Death to SCO!!! /SCO is dying

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

As evidenced by the fact that they have stolen BSD code and BSD is dying
(it's funny...laugh)

Re:SCO: this is a clear victory for SCO!

[bhima]

"They have not in Source Code. They are not in control of any airport^H^H^H^H^HSource Code. I tell you this. It is all a lie. They lie. It is a hollywood movie. You do not believe them."

Re:One down

[mcrbids]

But in the end, SCO's 2nd biggest mistake was fucking with the auto industry. They have great lawyers and know how to use them.......

As opposed to the incompetent, understaffed legal team at IBM?

(/chuckles inwardly)

total 18 minutes

[phyruxus]

Time to throw out a frivolous lawsuit: 18 minutes.

Time required for /.ers to complete self-congratulation: 1/2 hour.

Time until SCO regains a semblence of dignity: one Eon.

Re:SCO had a tripod of cases...

[NorthDude]

SCO's tripod only has one leg left. There's a technical term for that.

A monopod? :)

In other news - Paint Stocks Soar!

[KRzBZ]

as SCOG shills and insiders desperately work to keep their SCOX shares viable...

I'm waiting for the desperate, WWF-style infighting to begin.

You know what I mean - when the SCO execs start battling it out to see who can make it out the door and to the SEC office first, in order to seek immunity by ratting out their criminal co-conspirators on the insider trading charges which will inevitably follow this fiaSCO,...

Should be better than BattleBots...

Re:Honorable Rae Lee Chabot

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh NO! The Judge has been /.'d! What''s that? She's REVERSING her decision!!!!

Re:18 minutes?

[Steve B]

[18 minutes?] Why'd it take so long?

The judge had to listen to the complete compendium of law and fact supporting SCO's claims, which was recorded [cbsnews.com] in 1973 by Rose Mary Woods.

Re:18 minutes?

[shinma]

I didn't know William Shatner was a judge?

No. He's a Lawyer.

Denny Crane!

Re:In other news - Paint Stocks Soar!

[Exatron]

Thanks a lot. Now I have an image in my head of SCO execs trying to run out the door and getting caught Three Stooges-style.

Too many mod points

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously there are mod points to burn since the most banal, redundant, sophomoric posts are being modded insightful. Can't wait for the meta-moderation.

DC sent list of CPUs in 30 days ... the empty list

[Anonymous Coward]

As a matter of fact, DC were extremely prompt in their response to SCO, sending them well within 30 days the complete list of all the CPUs that they have running the relevant SCO software.

It was of course the empty list, but DC cannot be held to blame for SCO's failure to detect the arrival of this perfectly valid list at their premises.

Re:eyewitness account #1 without the commentary

[Anonymous Coward]

which CPU's that the source code is stored on

they haven't used them for 7 years, if they still have them just pull the old CPUs out out of the old computers and hand them to SCO.

then laugh at them for thinking their source code was in the volital cache/registor memory of old machines.
- CPUs don't store much
- when the power is off CPUs don't store anything
- the CPU would only have fraqments of source code only if they where editing the source code while the computer was on

however as non-tech lawyers they probably don't know the differance between CPU and computer, just it adds a bit of humor if the Auto's lawyer would school the Tech's lawyer about tech.

Re:Judge Chabot

[DarKnyht]

Yes, but her brother's friend's sister's step-daughter's uncle's godfather's boyfriend's hairdresser's dogwalker's co-worker's dad has a potato chip that looks like Bill Clinton.

Re:Transcript of the Hearing

[RobertB-DC]

...
SCO lawyers: Show me the money. Show me the money!!!
Daimler-Chrysler lawyers: ...
SCO lawyers: (In LOTR voice) Your code is Mine!

You forgot one:

SCO lawyers: If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! [nihildum.com]

Re:Pronunciation Guide

[Anonymous Coward]

In America, Daimler-Chrysler is pronounced "Daym-ler Cry-sler".

In Germany, however, the Chrysler is silent.

Not quite correct. Germans pronounce it Mare-tsay-diss.

And to rub it in their face...

[H8X55]

And to rub it in SCO's face Chrysler announced today it will be releasing their own Crossfire Linux available for free download at chrysler.com

Re:18 minutes?

[TheLinuxSRC]

I think you have it mostly right, with only one minor change:

clerk announces judge's arrival: 1 minute
judge repositions himself in chair: 1 minute
clerk announces case number : 1 minute
parties walk to tables: 1 minute
judge reads over case notes: 2 minutes
judge questions SCO about claims + SCO response: 5 mintues
judge questions DCC about claims + DCC response: 3 minutes
judge reams out SCO and tells them they are stupid : 3 minutes

SCO walking out with their tail between their legs : Timeless!

Re:I hear SCO secretly settled

[ChairmanMeow]

A $699 car? So they got a Yugo?

Re:I hear SCO secretly settled

[avgjoe62]

A $699 car? So they got a Yugo?

Three, actually.

Re:Market Cap 71M

[eddy]

Great idea! Let's give the scumsucking "IP"-terrorists our money. That'll show them!

Re:OUCH! Stock price plunges....

[Pharmboy]

The thing that surprised me though looking at it was that it seemed that there was a sudden rally at the end of the day, allowing SCOX to close slightly up. The stock went down all day and then *suddenly* popped back up to where it started. This makes me think that someone bought a whole lot of shares.

Microsoft? ;)

Re:More about an unreasonable request

[Alsee]

contract [] that you have to get him a bushell of apples
Would you go ahead and send him a bushell of oranges

Dude, your whole analogy is bogus! You're comparing apples and oranges!

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