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SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw)
Groklaw reports that the SCO Group is now trying to expand its complaint against Novell; the new version includes a number of new claims, including copyright infringement in SUSE Linux. There is a new list of stuff that SCO claims to own; in addition to the usuals (RCU, ELF, ...) it includes "the kmalloc data structure," IRQs, reference counters, semaphores, and more.
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SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 15:46 UTC (Wed) by simlo (subscriber, #10866) [Link] Novell's unauthorized copying in its use and distribution of SuSE Linux includes but is not limited to the appropriateion of the following data structures and algorithms contained in or derived from SCO's copyrighted material:I didn't know that you were able to copyright neither data structures nor algorithms.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 16:13 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Nor that SCO invented said data structures and algorithms. And IRQs are part of the hardware architecture. I didn't know that Linux was an interrupt controller! And one owned by SCO at that. The wonders never cease.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 16:32 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] It's been ridicolous from the get go, at this point it's beyond ridicolous.It's a farse that the so called US "justice" system allows this to go on, seemingly unbounded. Shouldn't there be some point at which something actually happens ? When will this end ? In 10 years ?
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 17:28 UTC (Wed) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] With all due respect, the US justice system has far worse problems than this silly SCO civil litigation. Innocent people condemned to death, prisoners executed by untrained prison staff, overcrowding, etc. There are now more people imprisoned in the US (as a percentage of population) than any other country on earth, including China.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 5, 2006 7:50 UTC (Thu) by irios (guest, #19838) [Link] >Innocent people condemned to death
ĦAnd *GUILTY* people condemned to death!
> prisoners executed by untrained prison staff
This very comment is sick. It is "prisoners executed" that is the problem; would it dissappear if the staff received some hands-on training?
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 5, 2006 8:30 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Who gives a monkeys about *guilty* people? I'm sorry - I'm sorry, but fair's fair - take away someone else's right to life, and you should expect to lose your right in turn.
What bothers me is when we get State Governors saying "I'm not going to sign any more death warrants, because events have proven that half the warrants I've been asked to sign in the past were for innocent people"!
Cheers,
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 5, 2006 15:09 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111) [Link] So it's okay with you if half the people we execute are innocent? Not that I believe the number is anywhere near half, but I also don't believe the state should be executing anyone. The fact that some number of them are innocent just makes it worse.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 6, 2006 8:29 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] No. It bothers me that 1 in 2 people slated for execution shouldn't be.
That to my mind is a VERY good reason for not having the death penalty.
I'm not opposed to the death penalty in principle. I am opposed to its use in practice if the judicial system is so badly flawed as to get it wrong 50% of the time!
Cheers,
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 5, 2006 9:11 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] I meant the problem that there seems to be no reasonable upper bount to how long one is, assuming one is a company with atleast some cash-reserves bullshit-around until one hits the point where it's put up or shut up.Sure there's other worse problems.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 18:19 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] I didn't know that you were able to copyright neither data structures nor algorithms.I wonder how many of the data structures that SCO claims to own are part of the POSIX specification.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 4, 2006 23:46 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link] Don't use the P-word. They might try sue you for using their trademarks.
SCO Asks to Amend Complaint in Novell Litigation (Groklaw) Posted Jan 5, 2006 15:18 UTC (Thu) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link] Just How long is the dumbassed US legal system going sit around powdering it's collective toosh before it get's of it and kills SCO of permentally , This has been going on far too long or has that McBride life form got friends in the courts allowing him top faf around cus thats what it looks like dead lines have come gone and had nowt done for too long now wake up over there and get it sorted ,
Maybe if a legal limit was put on the fees and lenght of time said fees could be charged it would bring a final soloution . About 6 months and max at $1000.00 per week should get thing moving and if it goes over then SCO are Automatically wound up ..
Pete .
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