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Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL
hobsonchoice writes "SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers won't be sued. The same does not seem to apply if using a non-SCO distribution such as RedHat." LightSail points to the SCO letter itself, and raises an interesting point: "If they approve the use of 'their' IP in Linux in a single kernel, then the GPL holds that IP SCO allows to be used by a select few must be freely released to any and all. It appears that all Linux users everywhere were just given a license to continued use of Linux even if SCO would win their suit with IBM." And Haikuu writes "eWeek recently posted an interview conducted by e-mail exchange with Linus Torvalds regarding his recent move to the OSDL and the SCO suit."
SCO will die
Linux will always prosper
so will IBM
Set up Scodot.org, and then all the SCO news can be there. That would make me happy.
I mean, should we switch?
How much suffering would you have to endure before you'd use Caldera on all your servers to make it stop?
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Of course SCO Linux users won't be sued. There are too few to make it worth while.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Man, just as soon as SCO shoots itself in both feet during the past couple of weeks, it finds a third foot, and shoots that.... ....oh wait... that's not a foot.... ....ouch....
Interviewer: SCO alleges that you need to focus more on getting clarification as to where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from.
Linus:I allege that SCO is full of it.
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Sideshow Bob: The following neighbourhood residents will not be killed by me: Ned Flanders, Maude Flanders, Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson, that little baby Simpson...that is all.
[Homer runs up to Bart's room]
Homer: Woo-hoo! Did you hear that Bart? Heh--oh...
I guess we know where all the 2449 votes for "GP-who?" came from now.
So what do you reckon SCO's chances are of making it to their own "SCOForum" (17-20 August)?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
You mean SCO jumped into the GPL pool without their crack team of lawyers reading it first? Say it aint so.
Eye-Bee-Em Linux
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
It was the winter of 1988, and I was a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz. One night, I went to the Wednesday juggling group, and I met this woman named Lynn. Lynn was in an on-again, off again relationship that at the moment was off again.
Well, by the end of the evening, Lynn and I had a date to go hiking that weekend. We went out for a hike, and one thing led to another, and the next thing you knew we went back to my dorm and slept together.
We continued on like this for a few weeks, merrily boinking away, and then I went away for spring break. When I returned, Lynn told me that she had gotten back together with her old boyfriend. It was no huge loss where I was concerned, and I was grateful for all the good times.
Now how does this relate to SCO, you ask? Well, it turns out that Lynn worked for SCO. At the time, Santa Cruz had no technology companies to speak of. So it stands to reason that if it weren't for SCO, Lynn likely would have found work in some other town, and we would never have met.
This is all a round-about way of saying that SCO got me laid. Which sort of pales in significance to who owns what lines of code or what licenses were or weren't handed out. Yet it seems the Slashdot crowd is obsessed with this technical minutia, and purposefully ignores all the great things that SCO has undoubtedly contributed to this world. Like getting me laid. So, people, please get it together and be a bit more objective about this great company.
So, the SCO back then was GOOD the SCO now is BAD
Don't think that they're the same company cause they're not. It used to be about UNIX, now it's about using UNIX to sue people to earn profit.
McBride: My precious was birthday present YESS
IBM Lawyer: What are you talking about?
McBride: Its what has it got in my pocketses.
IBM Lawyer: You do not even have the source code do you?
McBride:Did we say so, precious? Cross it is, impatient, precious.
IBM Lawyer: Your honor, since SCO can not even have the code they therefor have no ownership. I have the source code here and
McBride: MY PRECIOUS! THEIF, theif IbM! We hates it FOREVER! My PRECIOUS!
http://saveie6.com/
Interviewer: ...where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from.
Linus: I allege that SCO is full of it.
Watch out, SCO is just nutty enough to take that the wrong way.
The coolest voice ever.
Ha, I pity SCO with their static IP!
I have dynamic IP.
Yesterday I owned the rights to Wireless Toasters, and the day before it was me who invented a certain sort of plastic sheathing suitable for undersea cables, tomorrow it may be me who invented tcp/ip!
Oh the excitement of dynamic IP...
graspee
With each statement made by SCO, I become more and more confident that the Iraqi Information Minister is alive and well and it is HE who is truly behind all of this. Who else could possibly have such a complete grasp of the opposite of reality?
Think about it - he disappears and the SCO FUD machine cranks up. Coincidence? I don't think so.
We look forward to helping you and your customers meet your business needs for the next twenty years. -- Optimist Darl
Help stamp out iliturcy.
go to ftp.sco.com and browse around.y are distributing YAST.
(/pub/scolinux/ipfserver/4.0/SRPMS)
The
THIEF!!!
Yes but that gives me karma and takes away theirs... W00T!
Clickety Click
See SCO lie.
See stocks fly.
Fly stocks, fly!
See Gartner blow.
SCO stocks grow!
Grow stocks! Grow!
See Novell.
See Novell smack,
Smack SCO! Smack!
See IBM.
See IBM laugh.
SCO lawyers barf.
SCO stocks cut in half.
See SCO.
See SCO whine.
SCO says "It's mine!"
See IBM.
IBM puts foot down.
SCO execs start to drown.
Drown SCO, drown!
http://saveie6.com/
Here is my take on the whole thing....
See SCO.
See SCO lie.
See stocks fly.
Fly stocks, fly!
See Gartner blow.
SCO stocks grow!
Grow stocks! Grow!
See Novell.
See Novell smack,
Smack SCO! Smack!
See IBM.
See IBM laugh.
SCO lawyers barf.
SCO stocks cut in half.
See SCO.
See SCO whine.
SCO says "It's mine!"
See IBM.
IBM puts foot down.
SCO execs start to drown.
Drown SCO, drown!
Yeah, right. I hope SCO sober up before they go to court.
all fixed!
After recent events, I pronounce it as "SUCK'O".
They'd be better off using CVS instead of their god awful Visual Sourcesafe, thats for damn sure.
I must not tell lies... OW!
I must not tell lies... OW!
I must not tell lies... OW!
God she's a bitch.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Remember all those years when the big boys were all saying "linux will never be a serious operating system"?
Couldn't Linus just say "Yep, you were all right. The whole thing was a joke. Linux was always intended to be a comical OS."
At that point I think we could claim the whole system falls under the category of parody, and the copyright issues should just go away. Right?
SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers won't be sued.
SideSCO Bob [on P.A.]: The following linux users will ~not~ be sued by me: SCO/Linux. That is all.
SCO User: Woohoo! Did ya hear, Linus!? Hey---Oh.