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FSF Statement on SCO vs. IBM
tomdp writes "Eben Moglen, Law professor and general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, has written a statement about SCO's lawsuit against IBM."
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Am I the only one that read the first line as "The lawsuit brought by the Satan Cruz Operation ..." ?
Just as I can't function without my first cup of coffee in the morning, I can't get my moral outrage going without the first SCO story of the morning. What are we going to do when the case is thrown out? I guess there's always MS.
SpongeBob: Hey Patrick, what am I?
SpongeBob lays down and acts dead.
Patrick: Uhh, you're dead.
SpongeBob: No Patrick, I'm SCO!
Patrick: What's the difference? Ha ha ha
SpongeBob: Ha ha ha ha.
I picture an IBM lawyer taking out the SCO board:
*BANG*, Head Shot!
*BANG*, Double Kill!
*BANG*, Multi Kill!
*BANG*, Ultra Kill!
*BANG*, Monster Kill!
They have an compressor sucking the surrounding air, bottling it in tanks, and being sold for $1000/liter. The bottle comes with a free mask, what a deal!
When no one buys this SCOair, they call the constables over to complain about all the nose pirates. They insist that the elephant (IBM) next door it sucking all the air with his trunk and giving it to everyone.
Someone points out that just last week these same folks had tried a similar scheme with bottled water. After an hour of SCO's screaming the authorities cart the SCOair people away for disturbing the peace.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
If SCO wins, which they won't, the best judgement they could ever get would be to remove said code from Linux.
If they claim that they did not know that their code was in it, then linux users and other Linux distributors can not be bothered because they too did not know it was SCO's code. The law cannot be more forgiving of SCO for its negligence than to the Linux users/distributors.
SCO should forget about getting anything out lincensing from Linux ever.
The case between SCO and IBM now has boiled down to a contract dispute, which has to do with interpretation of the meaning of derivative works. In any case SCO is doomed because they inherited the documents and can not claim to interpret what it was intended to mean. Since SCO did not draft those documents, expert witnesses from AT&T which drafted those contracts will clearify what they meant by derivative works and SCO would be screwed.
"Fighting terrorists with millitary might is like killing a mosquitor on your Dad's forehead with a rifle."
Damn, your right! What is that V doing next to the B anyways?
I also realized I missed 3 members of SCO's board, so:
*BANG*, Killing Spree!
*BANG*, Rampage!
*BANG*, Dominating!
Yeah... but did anyone get the sense that Stallman read the draft essay and had Eben inject that paragraph about calling it 'GNU/Linux' instead of just 'Linux'?
Headline: Microsoft Bankrupt, Linux Rules the World
Stallman: Ahh!!! It's GNU/Linux, damnit.
Headline: Linux Marketshare 60%, Microsoft GPL's Windows
Stallman: Noooo... it's 'GNU/Linux'... Linux is only a kernel!
Headline: Extraterrestials Obliterate Eastern Seaboard
Stallman: 'GNU/Linux' everyone, 'GNU/Linux'...
-1, Too Many Layers Of Abstraction
Stories to be posted daily:
1) Microsoft Security Hole
2) SCO story 1
3) SCO story 2
3) Web Development with PHP and/or Perl book review
4) Physics story that no-one understands but everyone pretends to
5) New Mozilla build
6) Repost of one of the above
So is their kernel ... has been for the last 10 years. Remember the Linux Kernel is just a temporary solution. We'll be moving to HURD any day now. You know once they add hardware support for ISA and IDE.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
What could possibly be "Best of /."? 1000 pages of "First post!!!"?
If your not part of the solution then your part of the problem.
Of course everyone at SCO say that phrase the othere way round.
But, in contrast, passing a needle through the eye of a camel is just plain idiotic. The camel isn't going to tolerate someone trying to do that and will probably kick that person. Maybe stomp on that person. But maybe we're not talking about a camel at all. Maybe it's a gnu.
Laws are for people with no friends.
No place for that on Slashdot.
BTW, did you know that Daryl McBride is, in fact, the goatse.cx man?
(you just need to view him from the 'right' angle)
Legal[IBM]'s killing spree was ended by [M$]Gatesman.
Legal[IBM]: damn l337 h@x0rs....
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
Have you noticed when a Stallman-defender responds to this, it usually involves a personal attack and makes them look somewhat fanatical as a whole?
Shut up you pompus twit. I've no time for jerks like you - I have to go play with my RMS and ESR action-figures.
(kidding)
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
This is so unfair since most useful programs reside /bin or /sbin or /usr/bin and so on and so forth. /etc only contains some configuration files, really minor in importance when compared to the overall system. Especially if you, like me, equate size (in the filesystem) with importance.
I feel so sig.