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

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!

Comments

Call the MPAA

[mhesseltine]

Send in the Piracy Gestapo. He pirated material in front of hundreds of people, thus causing billions of dollars of damage to the entire movie industry (using *AA math)

Re:Not quite what I wrote

[The Bungi]

That doesn't surprise me, considering that the "editors" routinely muck around with submissions to give them more of an "edge". That pours gasoline in the zealot flames - and of course generates more ad impressions.

Re:The End is Near

[(v)Jargon(v)]

I hate this BASTARD so much, he's definitely on my list of big losers! You hear that Darl, you fuck!