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RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-for-the-right-to-code dept.

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."

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  1. OSN???? by Cranst0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just call it...

    Save Open Source (SOS)?

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    1. Re:OSN???? by WhytTiger · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. Re:That's nice of them... by jhigh · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. SCO, eh? by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!)
  4. bender? by feed_me_cereal · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  5. Re:Open Source policy by mod_parent_down · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Freedom isn't Free"

    I feel like I've read that somewhere before.

  6. In a related development by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  7. Addendum by tds67 · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  8. ahem by asv108 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Has been mentioned before by saskwach · · Score: 4, Funny

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