SCO Berates Linus' Approach To Kernel Contributions

Matthias_305 writes "The New York Times has an article about a new court document in which SCO critizes Linus Torvalds touting the 'inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code.' They claim to have got evidence from a conversation on the kernel mailing list in which Torvalds advocates programmers shouldn't care about patents. According to the article he stands by his view which is at least 'candid'." On a related note, BobDowling points to a proposal at The Inquirer ("Shutting down SCO's FUD machine") regarding SCO's claims. "SCO won't let people see the contested source code without signing an outrageous NDA but the article gives a mechanism for publishing appropriate MD5 checksums which allow code trees to be compared without anyone else seeing the code. This is offered as a means to locate the source of SCO's contested code. ... This mechanism gives a concrete procedure that SCO can be challenged to follow as part of the community's "put up or shut up" response. There would be no threat to SCO's claimed IPR."

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Re:Not normally a Linus fan but..

[Sj0]

Watch thy tongue, oh simpleminded troglodyte, lest the sins of your countrymen be recounted in all their glory. Your fathers are the masterminds of the atomic bomb, and the only ones who have brought the full might of this dread weapon of pure destruction against a heavily populated area. Your decietful leaders have regaled the world with your lies in recent months, and to this day the vestiges of that deciet remain.

Watch thy tongue, for you are only innocent in your own mind.