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SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off?

Posted by simoniker on from the more-acronyms-please dept.

bkuhn writes "Last week's Wall Street Journal (and other news outlets) carried statements by SCO's Mark Heise challenging the "legality" of FSF's GPL. FSF has issued a response to this baseless claim." Also, mcgroarty points out that Intel and HP seem to be backing swiftly away from their sponsorship of SCO's in-progress Las Vegas conference (a EWeek article suggests that "Intel Corp. was recently billed as one of the lead sponsors of SCO's Forum 2003 conference here this week, but then suddenly disappeared from all marketing and press material for the forum. It appears that Hewlett-Packard Co. also got cold feet. As late as last week, SCO was telling attendees that HP would be giving a partner keynote at the forum on Tuesday morning. But on Sunday the schedule of events given to attendees when they registered makes no mention of an HP keynote...") M adds: Now we've got a few stories from the conference: News.com.com and Eweek. Despite some bad headline writing at News.com, SCO simply continues to employ the Chewbacca defense, showing no code to back up their claims. Amusingly, Darl McBride started his rant about copyright infringement by copying some footage from a James Bond movie. Bravo!

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  1. The End is Near by acxr+is+wasted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just like in the movie "Rising Sun": "They're distancing themselves."

    --
    "Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
    1. Re:The End is Near by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      Not a jock, a Morman. Gratuated from BYU, worked for Franklin Covy, a self-professed Morman.

      Not that there's anything wrong with being a Morman, but they do have their own culture, particularly if they live in Utah.

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      "Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
  2. flame bait? by nyet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    good job moderators

  3. Damn I hate the way the use DNA all the time by oolon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry but its so wrong, for a long time Plants an animals were put into groups depending on how they looked. When DNA was discovered people started testing and found ALOT of mistakes it seems that the organisms looked similar because that was the right shape for the right job (both trying to fill the same niche). Anyway ALL multi-Cellular life is a derivative work, when the Oxygen content went up on this planet cell found a way to surve by teaming up with another (mytocondrals) which acted as a power house as it could deal with this poisonus gas. Check your Mytrocondral DNA with that of a Fly and you will find it pretty much the same thing, just a few mutations over the many millions of years.

    James

  4. Re:Best quote by Usquebaugh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's even better when UK politicians start up.

    "I feel, I must remind the learned gentleman that his viewpoint is myopic and factually baseless"

    "I restate, for the benefit honerable gentleman from Shropshire, that the opposition, of which my out spoken colleague is a memeber, has yet to table any evidence of the allegations made against the current administration"

    etc,etc,etc

  5. Somewhere in Texas, there's a village missing its by xcomm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >Somewhere in Texas, there's a village missing its idiot. We in Europe think, there must also be a bar missing its idiot [GWB].