SCO Finally Sues Someone
After threatening to do so since mid-2003 and missing a self-imposed February deadline, SCO has finally filed its first infringement suit against a Linux user. They picked AutoZone, a company that switched from SCO UNIX to Linux in recent years. The suit will doubtless fail, but will drag things out a little longer and pump up SCO’s stock price until they lose.
In other SCO news, they’ve convinced one poor sucker to buy an SCO IP license. I’m sorry to report that the server sending you these bits right now is covered by that license, since my hosting provider is just a couple of boxen at EV1‘s Houston colocation center. So some infinitesimal portion of my hosting fee is going to Darl’s barratry bonanza. How annoying.
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