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SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« on: September 02, 2003, 04:29:05 PM »
A report on a German web site said that SCO faces a fine of €10,000 or alternatively its CEO can spend 10 days in clink for violating an injunction.

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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2003, 04:34:12 PM »
Heh.  :-)
 

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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2003, 06:24:55 PM »
I wish the US had such a system.
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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2003, 06:18:45 AM »
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I wish the US had such a system.


The US does have a simuliar system, a complaint has to be filed with a government agency (usually the FTC or FCC) about deceptive advertising.  It's just alot slower an usually companies will take on other companies in civil courts first as they can get relief a hell of alot quicker.  Once the court action begins between SCO v. IBM and then IBM v. SCO, the real fun starts as massive amounts of monies are spent on lawyers.  Guess who has vastly deeper pockets of the two. Once one sides runs out of money to feed it's lawyers, they tend to lose an if they are still in business, the penality phase should put SCO out of our misery.   :-D

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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2003, 06:08:47 AM »
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Guess who has vastly deeper pockets of the two.


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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2003, 06:29:22 AM »
Only 10000 Euros ???

c'mon they can do better than that can't they?
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Re: SCO Fined 10,000 Euro or CEO Goes to Jail
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2003, 12:55:38 PM »
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Only 10000 Euros ???


If another company were to sue them in a German court, they'd probably get a hell of a lot more.  The problem is probably that there isn't a [commercial] opposing party, only the state and a point of law.