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RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD
sckienle writes "ZD-Net has a commentary by Richard Stallman about the SCO case against IBM, kind of. It does provide some history on what the GNU organization did to protect itself from such lawsuits. Favorite quote: 'Less evident is the harm it does by inciting simplistic thinking: [Intellectual Property] lumps together diverse laws--copyright law, patent law, trademark law and others--which really have little in common.'"
Is it impossible for that man to grow up or will we hear this GNU/Linux bullshit until we die?
They gave their software away, they are in no position to try to force people to put GNU in front, everyone can call it whatever they want to.
EU software patent vote in 1 week: 2000 IT bosses ask Europarl to say NO
Brussels, Munich, Amsterdam 2003/06/22
For immediate Release
A "Petition for a Free Europe without Software Patents" has gained
more than 150000 signatures. Among the supporters are more than 2000
company owners and chief executives and 25000 developpers and
engineers from all sectors of the European information and
telecommunication industries, as well as more than 2000 scientists and
180 lawyers. Companies like Siemens, IBM, Alcatel and Nokia lead the
list of those whose researchers and developpers want to protect
programming freedom and copyright property against what they see as a
"patent landgrab". Currently the patent policy of many of these
companies is still dominated by their patent departments. These have
intensively lobbied the European Parliament to support a proposal to
allow patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" (recent
patent newspeak term which usually refers to software in the context
of patent claims, i.e. algorithms and business methods framed in terms
of generic computing equipment), which the rapporteur, UK Labour MEP
Arlene McCarthy, backed by "patent experts" from the socialist and
conservative blocks, is trying to rush through the European Parliament
on June 30, just 13 days after she had won the vote in the Legal
Affairs Committe (JURI).
Introduction
-> [12]Eurolinux Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
-> [13]FFII: Software Patents in Europe
For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has,
contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law, granted
more than 20000 patents on what the law calls "programs for
computers" and what the European Patent Office (EPO) started to
call "computer-implemented inventions" in 2000: software in a
context of patent claims, i.e. rules of organisation and
calculation framed in terms of generic computing equipment. Now
Europe's patent community is pressing to codify this practise
into a new law. Europe's programmers and citizens are facing
considerable risks. Here you find the basic documentation,
starting from a short overview and the latest news.
The European Parliament parliament's plenary will decide on a draft
report on the European Commission's software patentability directive
proposal COM(2002)92. Hartmut Pilch explains on behalf of Eurolinux,
an alliance of associations and companies from all European countries
and all sectors of the European software industry:
If the European Parliament accepts this report, even with
amendments, it will not only find itself in complete contradiction
with public opinion, as expressed in the largest online petition on
IT matters which the world has seen so far. It would also be in
contradiction with its own proclaimed aims. The result of passing
the McCarthy Directive Proposal would be that "Amazon One Click
Shopping" indisputably becomes a patentable invention, and that
more than 20000 broad and trivial software and business method
patents, which have been granted by the European Patent Office
(EPO) against the letter and spirit of the written law, will no
longer be contestable in court, except with rock-solid evidence of
prior art.
"Now it is up to the European Parliament to decide on a highly
controversial proposal for a directive for software patents. The JURI
proposal aims at improving clarity. It should have at last defined
clearly what is patentable and what not. But in reality it is a bunch
of magic formulas that even legal experts do not understand. In
particular for small and medium sized software developers it is a
disaster. A patent infringement claim can ruin such a company. It is
to be hoped that the European Parliament understands this if they vote
about the proposed directive in a few days." says Reinier Bakels from
the Insitute for Information Law of Amsterdam University, aut
He sounds really pissed off because everyone calls it only "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux" like he want's it to be known.
NoSuchGuy
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
To sum up this artice: Blah blah blah, software should be free, blah blah blah, SCO is evil and wrong for what they're doing, blah blah blah, GNU is good, blah blah blah, the GPL should be the only license EVER.
Download the SCO Sources for free! Incorporate them into your GPLed software!
/ an cient/?submit=ACCEPT
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ancient-unix
With a twinkle in his eye and a skip in his step, RMS slammed his sky-blue Chevette's rusted-out car door and turned on heel toward the MIT Zoo entrance. Today was a Sunday, and RMS had decided the daily stresses of Free Software, the GPL, and his "crazy" drug habits could go away for just one afternoon while he enjoyed the zoo.
"That'll be twenty-five dollars, sir," the lady at the admission booth said glumly. She looked at RMS expectantly.
"I was expecting this zoo to be Free," RMS stated loudly, eyes darting around to gauge onlookers' reactions. There were none: RMS's capital F had went unnoticed. "Can you ensure me that this money will not help fund--"
The admissions lady cut him off. "Twenty-five dollars, or twenty bucks with a Mr. Pibb can," the lady cut in.
With a grumble and shake of his beard, RMS handed over twenty five of his hard-earned dollars. Considering that the GPL works to unemploy programmers, one must wonder where this money came from...
By evening, RMS found himself in front of the penguin exhibit. He felt himself start to sweat, which would have been no surprise-- his thick, full, grizzly beard must be worth a thousand down comforters-- except that he was wearing only a pair of nylon biking shorts and a travel pack around his waist. He stared at his hands. What was wrong?
"AWWWK!" a nearby bird offered. RMS wheeled in the direction the screech had come from. He was met with the steely, unfeeling stares of a penguin. "AWK! Ooooh God, the penguin said AWK... lord, lord lord, it's LINUX. THE PENGUIN IS TUX!" RMS blurted out. He felt dizzy, and cold sweat now washed over his brittle, hairy chest. He looked this way and that. From nearby a bird again squawked.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK"
RMS ran as fast as his atrophied hippy-programmer legs could carry him, right thru a gate and into an exhibit. He realized what he had done, and before he could turn around, he heard a low, ominous sound. Like the Devil's riding mower. "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" RMS gasped.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
He was standing in the Gnu section, and it seemed these bull yaks were in rut and ready to mate with the first hairy thing with a hole in its center they found. Bad luck for RMS and his beard. Just then he felt cloven hooves push him down...
http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml
/ os/lin ux/story/0,10801,81495,00.html
l inux.h tml
SCO's Stock Plot
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics
What SCO Wants, SCO Gets
http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618
Then suddenly my world gets put upside down with RMS responding against SCO. Now what? Should I side with SCO because nothing good comes out of RMS's mouth? Should I side with RMS and his GNU/Linux FUD that fragments the OSS community?
I'm confused!
<grub> Reading
This just in: Richard Stallman's hair has been declared a fire hazard by the National Wildlife Service.
Wee musst awl swich owr sistumz frum Windoze oar Read Hatt Lynucks too ah moar add vansd sistum lyke Ninnle!
SCOTUS n. 1. A highly sensitive patch of skin between the legs running from the genitalia, to the anus.
Usage: Yo, bitch! Lick my scotus!
How ya like dat?
CODS SMURF
CDR FUM SOS
CDR OF MS US
CDR OF SUMS
CDR OF MUSS
CDR FOSS MU
CDR FUSS OM
SCUDS FROM
SCUDS FORM
SCUD FORMS
FMC DO RUSS
FMC DO USSR
FMC ROD SUS
FMC RODS US
FMC DR SO US
FMC SURD SO
FMC SUDS OR
FMC DU ROSS
COM DR FUSS
SCUMS FORD
SCUMS DR OF
SCUM FORDS
RCS MUDS OF
RCS SOD FUM
RCS DOS FUM
Clearly, SCUD FORMS are the documents one requires to order or ship a SCUD missile. CDR OF SUMS is a position within the U.S. army--he is resposible for payroll. DR OF SCUMS is the guy who cleans my aquarium. SMURF CODS are the small blue fish that live there.
~Idarubicin
Fuck you, you Stallman-cum drinking name dropper.