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SCO's year of living litigiously (CNN)
Here's a
CNN article on SCO's alleged plans to sue a Linux end user.
"Whereas the RIAA could point to services such as Apple's iTunes
Music Store and RealNetworks's Rhapsody as legitimate means for downloading
songs, SCO's 'legal' alternative -- persuading users to pay for licensing
-- is untested in a court of law. It's not clear that Linux users are in
fact breaking any intellectual property laws."
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SCO's year of living litigiously (CNN) Posted Feb 24, 2004 17:34 UTC (Tue) by dcoutts (subscriber, #5387) [Link] SCO is still managing to associate the community with the virus/DDOS attacks - in the minds of journalists at least.From the article:
"SCO has already incurred the wrath of the open-source community; its servers bore the brunt of a recent virus attack, and its CEO now travels with bodyguards when he makes public speeches."The bodygaurds were a publicity stunt and the virus was the work of criminal spammers.
SCO's year of living litigiously (CNN) Posted Feb 24, 2004 19:48 UTC (Tue) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157) [Link] While what you say is true, notice how much more anit-sco this article is. Listening to it, I got the impression that the author didn't think much of SCO's chancesd. Notice how he kept comparing it to the RIAA case as 'look, these people have a proper argument'?. Now, go back a year and compare to this article:http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/28/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/ Same reporter, but notice the somewhat different tone?
SCO's year of living litigiously (CNN) Posted Feb 24, 2004 20:13 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] It'll be quite something once the house of cards comes crashing down, to see how many reporters start saying things along the lines of "this was inevitable" and "we were predicting this years ago"...
No open source community involvement in Mydoom? Posted Feb 27, 2004 18:02 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] So why did the criminal spammers DDOS SCO and Microsoft? Might they also be supporters of open source software? And if so, isn't it fair to refer to them as part of the open source software community, as well as criminal spammers?
No open source community involvement in Mydoom? Posted Mar 1, 2004 21:04 UTC (Mon) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link] So why did the criminal spammers DDOS SCO and Microsoft?Perhaps they're shareholders. I guess we'd better start referring to them as "disgruntled, criminal, SCO/MS shareholder-spammers" from now on, right? Might they also be supporters of open source software? They might be. They might be Vorlons, too. Or Microsoft or SCO employees. Or even you. Hard to tell when you don't know anything about them except that they wrote some (closed-source) malware that targets certain companies and avoids others... And if so, isn't it fair to refer to them as part of the open source software community, as well as criminal spammers? Yup--if and when they are verified as such. Until then, it's biased reporting and innuendo at best, smear tactics and libel at worst. (Of course, IANAL, so I'm not going to argue about what technically constitutes libel in the US.) Greg
SCO's year of living litigiously (CNN) Posted Feb 26, 2004 14:45 UTC (Thu) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620) [Link] >>SCO, with its lawsuits against IBM (IBM: Research, Estimates), Novell (NOVL: Research, Estimates), Red Hat (RHAT: Research, Estimates), and others, clearly likes to make a name for itself through its legal actions. << RedHat is suing Scox, Scox is *not* suing RedHat.
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