Diary of a Network Geek

Finally a little justice!

Man, this trial has dragged out for years and years and years! But, in spite of apparently basing their entire income structure on suing people for copyright infringement, SCO now owes Novell $2.5 million dollars for doing just that. You’d think that a company that ended up primarily made of, and run by, lawyers would have been pretty careful in regards to the lawsuits they exposed themselves to if they planned on extorting money from people for intellectually property infringement. Well, I would, at any rate.

(Yeah, I know this is kind of old news, but, hell, I’ve been busy and this slipped by me until now.)

Yet another “legal action” from SCO.

Man, when the decision finally comes down from judge that these guys were wrong, and I firmly believe that it will, they’re going to be hip-deep in lawsuits from people trying to recoup their “licensing fees”. Yet, according to this article on Australian IT, they’re still at it! Now, it seems, they’re bringing suit against not only Autozone, but Daimler-Chrysler “to enforce the contract points agreed to by our end users,” according to Darl McBride, SCO’s chief executive. I just can’t believe that they don’t see how stupid this is. I guess because some folks actually paid their questionably legal licensing fees, they figure they can just keep rolling over everyone else. Frankly, I can’t imagine who’s doing business with them anymore. Oh, wait, maybe that’s the problem! No one was doing business with them, so they had to raise revenue, and…. Duh! I guess I get confused when people do things that seem willfully wrong, for lack of a better word. I guess it’s the Polly Anna in me. Oh, well, at least it generates some press for Linux. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, right?