RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund

celston23 writes "According to this article (near bottom), RedHat is intending to use their Open Source Now Fund to support open-source (GPL) developers who are sued for copyright infringement. Might be used during the SCO legal battle."

Comments

Re:Jessus Dupe-Dancing Christ.

[Trigun]

They put the SCO spin on it, so it's new.

NOW

[Ever Dubious]

What does Open Source have to do with the National Organization of Women?

OSN????

[Cranst0n]

Why not just call it...

Save Open Source (SOS)?

Re:OSN????

[WhytTiger]

I think a better name would be Save Creative Openness (SCO)... obviously that abbreviation won't be in use for much longer

Re:OSN????

[saskwach]

Or...Serenity Now.
Owls Swoop Nightly?
Our Saviour...Nah.
Ornery Software Nerds...
Oh well, Silly Name.

Re:That's nice of them...

[jhigh]

Lest we forget that ANYONE who makes ANY money off of ANYTHING must be evil and their motives must be solely to continue to make more money.

SCO, eh?

[rice_burners_suck]

It looks like this Open Source Now fund is getting more important every day:

For immediate release:

Smoking Crack Operation (NASCRACK: SCO) announced legal action against Microsoft Corporation for violating SCO intellectual property. The lawsuit comes on the heels of legal action targeting IBM, all the Fortune 500 companies, the governments of two world superpowers and six third world nations, millions of computer users worldwide, and God.

"Microsoft is using underground hacker software called Linux," said SCO CEO Darl McBluff. "They are using Linux to develop operating system software, codenamed Microsoft Windows, which violates our intellectual property rights. Competition from Microsoft and other companies is eating away at our sales," McBluff said. "Die fuckers!!!"

According to an SCO spokesperson, Linux violates SCO copyrights by using code developed, trademarked, copyrighted and patented by IBM. Microsoft Windows violates SCO's self-proclaimed right to eternal, perpetually increasing profits.

Experts from the Gartner Group suggested that all users of Linux, Windows, IRIX, Plan-9, CP/M, Palm OS, OS/390, UNICOS, TOPS-20, Mac OS, DOS and OS/2 immediately pay SCO a nominal licensing fee of $699 for each instance of every process that executes on these operating systems, retroactive to 1960. SCO is offering a special accounting package to compute the daily licensing payment requirements and offers convenient financing options. "We suggest you pay up," McBluff said, commenting on the Gartner report, "or we will break your legs and burn down your homes and businesses."

(I know we're only joking, but with SCO, it could happen!)

bender?

[feed_me_cereal]

You mean there's a project to create bender? Sweet! That's much cooler than that weak-ass blender project!

Re:Open Source policy

[mod_parent_down]

"Freedom isn't Free"

I feel like I've read that somewhere before.

In a related development

[AtariAmarok]

In a related development, SCO has filed separae lawsuits against the government of Turkey and the Vienna Boys Choir for having employed eunuchs in the past.

Re:In a related development

[kurosawdust]

quoth the SCO public relations spokesperson, "these organizations really dropped the ball on this one..."

*dodges...holy shit are those what I think they are??*

Addendum

[tds67]

In its most recent earnings report, SCO reported declines in product and services revenues in the six months that ended in April, compared with the same period last year. Those declines, however, were offset by $8 million in...

...SCO executive stock sales.

ahem

[asv108]

The FSF, will say it should be SFS (Save Free Software), but you can use your orginal name as long as you put a GNU/ in front of it.

Re:Has been mentioned before

[saskwach]

It's from the department-of-redundancy department.

Re:Has been mentioned before

[mustangsal66]

Can you tell the difference between these two?:

opensourcenow@redhat.com
www.redhat.com/opensourcenow

I didn't know they were giving parts of the MCSE exams today...
Umm Ok
1.) One is an email address, and one is the URL for a website.

Whew, these MS exams are tough!

Re:That's nice of them...

[RealAlaskan]

... who keeps the interest earned from the fund?

NEWSFLASH
Dateline: State of Improbability.
This just in from Redhat CEO Matt Szulik:

All earnings from the Open Source Defence fund will go to a special foundation which we are setting up to purchase new keyboards for Nigerian spammers. We have all been getting awfully tired of seeing those Nigerian scam spams, and having every one of them in all caps was just making it worse.

We used to think that the stupid spammers thought that they couldn't be traced if they typed in all caps, but extensive research by graduate anthropology students at the Nigerian University shows that the real problem is that all the spammers think that their keyboards look prettier with all the LEDs lit. So, we're going to give them new keyboards with more LEDs, and no capslock key.

With one stroke, this will solve the Nigerian spam problem. Oh, did I mention that none of the keys will be functional?

Seriously, I'll bet you that ALL of the money, interest included, will go to the stated purpose of the fund. It's ridiculous to think that Redhat would commit such a trivial fraud so publically. Unlike SOME companies (notice my self restraint: I didn't mention SCO!), Redhat has recurring revenue, profits, and a business plan without Step 2) ????. They've got too much to lose to do something crooked.