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SCO NDA Online at LinuxJournal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stacking-the-deck dept.

shadowbearer writes "The full text of the SCO NDA is available here at LinuxJournal. IANAL, but my reading of it makes me understand all the industry "No way!" style comments. Here's a snippet:
"Dan Ravicher, an attorney who specializes in free software and open-source issues at the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, said in an interview there are three key problems with the NDA. First, Ravicher said, "SCO can pick and choose among all its evidence" to show only the parts that back up the company's claims. "They're agreeing to let you see the half of the picture that they want you to see", he added.""

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  1. Re:I just saw the code... by (startx) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that's a C++ style comment. Since UNIX is in C I'm sure the infringing part is more like

    /* you are not supposed to understand this */

  2. If you're reading this Mr. Ashcroft... by TrekCycling · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please don't take the fact that I'm on the same message board as this guy to mean that I'm "against us". I know with the Patriot act it's pretty easy to get labeled a terrorist, so I just want to cover my butt before the feds come busting down my door.

    Thank you. God Bless America.

  3. M$ care about other peoples copyright by Sigurd_Fafnersbane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At BBC, theregister etc there is a story about Sendo suing Orange over patent infringement on the Orange SPV Smartphony. The link is at Sendo vs Orange

    It seems M$ should have bought a licence to Sendos patents before giving it away to HTC and others.

  4. Re:Come someone... by AlecC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What is IANAL?

    I Am Not A Lawyer.

    If you take advice marked thus and get into legal trouble, you are entirely on your own. Mind you, anybody who takes legal advice from the Web/Usenet is a workd class fool anyway.

    Also, what is fragging?

    Literally, killing with a fragmentation grenade - a means occasionally used to get rid of disliked officers.NCOs in the Vietnam war.

    Figuratively - destroying with great force.

    --
    Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
  5. SCO uses Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thought this was interesting. If you look up www.sco.com on netcraft this is what you get.

    The site www.sco.com is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux. FAQ