Posted by Scott Laird
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:45:26 GMT
According to GrokLaw, BayStar, one of SCO’s PIPE investors, is suing SCO. From the press release:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – BayStar Capital today announced that, despite a prior announcement by The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) to the contrary, the transactions contemplated by the Stock Repurchase Agreement by and between BayStar and SCO, dated as of May 31, 2004, have not closed due to an unresolved dispute between the parties. BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under the Stock Repurchase Agreement. Until a final determination is made by the court, BayStar maintains its position as a Series A-1 Preferred stockholder of SCO.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:46:11 GMT
Groklaw has a preliminary report saying that the judge dismissed SCO’s suit against DaimlerChrysler.
This shouldn’t be too surprising, because the case was a complete mess. SCO was basically suing DaimlerChrysler because DCC hasn’t responded to an audit request that SCO sent. Of course, SCO sent it to the wrong address, to a company with the wrong name. After waiting a few weeks for a response, SCO sued. After the suit was filed, DCC responded, saying something to the effect of “we have no idea who you are, we have no contract with you. You claim to be the successor-in-interest to a contract that we had with AT&T years ago, but we weren’t notified when it changed hands, as required in the contract. It doesn’t matter anyways, we haven’t used the software in question in years. Want it back?”
That wasn’t good enough for SCO, but it looks like it was enough for the judge.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:45:00 GMT
Gotta love these guys. According to Slashdot, SCO is claiming that they own the ELF executable format, and Linux is infringing. According to LinuxWorld:
SCOsource chief Chris Sontag, the SCO VP in charge of the company’s hate-inducing IP push, claims TISC, which folded immediately after the spec was published, exceeded its rights even though both Novell and the old SCO - as well as Microsoft, IBM and Intel - were on the committee.
Sontag also says that any entities that ignore SCO’s ELF copyrights are infringing. Such a claim is likely to put SCO on a war footing, if it isn’t already, with the Free Software Foundation, whose GNU operating environment makes broad use of ELF.
Can someone please take SCO aside and explain what copyright means? I mean, this is just too much–copyright doesn’t protect processes or abstract information. That’s a patent or trade secret. Unless Linux copied SCO’s ELF code or is illegally copying copyrighted standards documents, then Linux isn’t infringing on any of their ELF copyrights. Assuming that they even have any.
Since SCO’s suit against DaimlerChrysler is probably going to get hammered in court tomorrow, this is probably just another attempt to prop up their stock price by making wild and unsupportable claims in court. I really need to stop getting all worked up about SCO.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Tue, 11 May 2004 01:10:27 GMT
Groklaw mentions that SCO is closing their office in Poland, and that their former manager is starting a Linux company.
The best part is what’s left of www.sco.pl. It’s just classic.
Update: I grabbed a copy, just in case.
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