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IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the didja-read-the-license-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product." JayJay.br points out a similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says that 'SCO-Caldera does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license ..."

12 of 482 comments (clear)

  1. death to sco!! by pair-a-noyd · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP!! Go get em IBM!!!

    1. Re:death to sco!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      DIE SCO. .DIE YOU BITCH DIE.. DIE...

      (ok imagine i'm the guy from evil death with a really big gun)

  2. 0wn3d! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bend over and take it SCO!

  3. Its funny because its true by headbulb · · Score: -1, Troll

    HA HA

  4. BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This could be what us *BSD faithful have been waiting for.

    Once SCO has killed off Linux forever, most everyone will be using *BSD.

    And I promise you wont ever have to refer to it as "GNU/BSD"!

  5. Nerf Football by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    1) Get a Nerf football and cut the ends off so there is a two inch flat on each end of the ball and carve a hollow two inch cylinder through it's length.

    2) Get a piece of Armaflex which is a plumbing pipe insulator which feels amazingly like human skin and is not split down it's length like many others.

    3) Cut a piece of Armaflex slightly longer than the hollow football and put it in the football.

    4) Lubricate Armaflex tube.

    5) ???

    6) Profit!

  6. Linux in Germany by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was wondering how this was going to impact the German switch from Windoze to SuSE Linux.

    But then I realized, that Germany will simply pass a law which blocks any Americans from getting money from them - just like they made Napster legal.

    The Germans are flagrantly taunting us now, ignoring our laws while having a virtual hissy fit about Microsoft supposedly breaking laws. Everyone knows how nationalistic they are. We really need to think and compete globally, because THEY aren't playing fair. Can you say 4th Reich anyone?

  7. Typical Slashdot Post by jonabbey · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gee, now that I was almost buying their license ...

    Just typical. You have to throw in a little snarky dig at SCO,don't you?

    You can't have a single damn story here without getting all of this biased, unprofessional editorial content mixed in. No one would mistake this place for a real news organization, that's for sure.

    --
    - jon

    Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX
  8. IBM and SCO are both EVIL( good cop bad cop ) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is a trap. I have worked for IBM
    and they are not for FSF. IBM and SCO are planning
    this just like IBM wants to own redhat they both
    think they can play good cop bad cop and distroy
    they gnu/linux etc.. community. Don't buy their
    Products !

  9. Don't buy SCO or IBM products ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You want real news how about IBM cheating its
    employees on salaries. IBM lies. You can make
    more money as a security guard than working
    for IBM. SCO and IBM are both bad. No one needs
    them. Ask your representatives to drop any form
    of IBM or SCO goverment contracts.

  10. The following people will eat shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  11. Re:What about Xenix? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only on slashdot does one get moderated up for making the EXACT SAME JOKE, but designed for idiots.