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SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid
chrullrich writes "According to heise (German, fishbait), SCO's chief counsel Mark Heise (unrelated) of Boies, Schiller and Flexner has declared that the GPL violates the US copyright law and is thus null and void. SCO's legal position is actually a little too crazy to believe: The GPL allows unlimited copies, the copyright law allows one. Therefore, the GPL is invalid. Apparently, they try to argue that the copyright law, in giving consumers the right to make one backup of their software without any permission from the copyright holder, outlaws any contractual agreement that allows users to make more than one copy." There's an Inquirer article in English. Apparently SCO is now using the Chewbacca Defense. Other SCO news: SCO reports a profit, examining SCO's contributions to Linux, an attorney summarizes the case.
Pointless plea to moderators to waste their points.
Beer wants to be free
...since they've distributed MILLIONS odfcopies of Windows, when the Copyright Act only allows ONE copy....
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
No dude.
It was a judge that decided the florida election valid.
Tragedy of it all is later down the track when they finally did a fullblown analysis of the vote post gore losing in court and conceding, it pans out Gore is actually the president.
So Gore *did* win in florida, and by a much larger margin won the popular vote as well (gerrymandered by electoral college), but you got bush insted.
Optimistically you *could* say that its just a break from democracy till 2004.
Meh. Old argument anyway
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.