____/ bmillerjacobson@xxxxxxxxx on Sunday 11 November 2007 00:27 : \____
> On Nov 10, 9:22 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> ____/ Ramon F Herrera on Saturday 10 November 2007 14:18 : \____
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 10, 9:26 am, Doug Mentohl <doug_ment...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Two companies obtained an injunction against SCO requiring them to
>> >> withdraw the claims in the below letter. SCO has put the letter back on
>> >> their web site. This article gives the details, it's in German so
>> >> perhaps fuddie could do a translation ..
>>
>> >> Last week SCO put the letter online again, and the two companies have
>> >> started new litigation against SCO.
>>
>> >> "SCO has found compelling evidence that the Linux operating system
>> >> contains unauthorized SCO UNIX intellectual property (IP)"
>>
>> >>http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_partners.html
>>
>> >>http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/98732
>>
>> > [Darl McBribe:]
>> >> As many of you are already aware, SCO UNIX systems continue
>> >> to sell well - including an increase in OpenServer sales over the
>> >> previous quarter.
>>
>> > They sold 20 systems last quarter, and this quarter almost 25.
>>
>> I thought they had a mobile devices strategy. Ouch. Just 20 lousy
>> cellphones? That won't cover the lawyers' fees.
>>
>> --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>
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>
> I believe the Steve Savitvky filk song " High Barratry" says it best:
>
> http://thestarport.com/Steve_Savitzky/Songs/barratry.html
>
>
> Hard to believe they are back to there same old tricks, isn't it?
> I thought they went bankrupt?
> How can they have not learned from how it went last time?
>
> Kind of makes you question our species as a whole, doesn't it?
Interesting. Never seen it before.
Audio: http://thestarport.com/Steve_Savitzky/Songs/barratry.ogg
"Of a company called S-C-O, the tale I'll briefly tell
With G-P-L, our software all is free
Who turned their hands to barratry when software wouldn't sell
Sailing through the legal straits of High Barratry..."
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