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Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL

Posted by timothy on from the what-part-of-non-discriminatory-don't-you-understand dept.

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."

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  1. URGENT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY IMPORTANT READ ASAP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    slashdot = teh suck

  2. Lawsuit or no lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lunix hippies are lawless folk, they don't care about copyright law, public decency laws, and sodomy laws.

  3. SCO IS GOD! WORSHIP SCO! BOW DOWN! NOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I pray to an idol of Darl McBride every night.

  4. Can't wait till SCO wins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We can finally purge this Unix legacy shit and start fresh.

  5. Re:haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [msg(amok)] ?? sco
    -Amok(amok@204.194.106.151)- sco == the sound a gay man makes when he is choking on a large cock

  6. So many of us.... by baloogan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hypothethical situaion:
    SCO winned
    illeagal to use linux other than SCOs
    Torivalds in jail or back in finland
    Kernal hackers everywere being thorown in jain

    Sound familier? Like some not too recent movie?

    Kudos to who can figure out the movie im thinking bout....

  7. Re:Not really by zangdesign · · Score: 0, Troll

    The primary agency to sue SCO would be the FSF, since Stallman wrote the GPL. I really doubt that Linux dev's would see a cent from this, but Stallman would be incredibly rich all of a sudden.

    Damn, I need a few more acronyms to make that totally incomprehensible.

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