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Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy
An anonymous reader noted an article talking about the Samba
Team's Statement to SCO. While Darl McBride blasts the GPL, his company simultaneously announces the use of Samba 3 in their OpenServer product. I'm not sure if it breaks my heart or boils my blood to read this stuff. Probably a little of both.
I'm far more concerned that they're using Samba 3 at all. Samba has show itself time and again to be awfully insecure, and the latest version is unfinished and terribly slow.
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Since when haven't we lived in it. The entire world is full of double-standards and self-contradiction which all ends up as hypocrisy. Do this in situation a, but this in situation b because each response will benefit the person performing the action.
It's all just bullshit, but what do you want? People will say the best of everything in order to benefit themselves. Why should this shock anyone? They are saying the best things of every situation. They are clearly putting things on the PR wire better than anyone else (IBM, RedHat), and until they other people involved do something you will only read about the success that SCO is having. Hypocratic or not. Just because something like this hits closer to home for some doesn't mean that it's any different than what most companies (or people) do.
The only thing that you (Taco and the readers) can do is stop "suckin it up and posting" and actually do soemthing about it. I wonder what an army of 10,000 penguin loving geeks could do...
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Please mod troll.
they're going to use, and continue to use, open sourced software when it is good for business. Every publicly traded company has the responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as possible by whatever means possible. Sueing, stealing, lying... all part of the fun the is... Corporate America! Yay!
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is teh uber-sucks!
SCO can't have it both ways. SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits
Why the hell not? You bitch about restrictive MSFT EULA's but you still run Windows (ya ya only for games, but still). You bitch about proprietary lockdowns, but you buy iPods and G5 Macs.
You dont have to like the GPL to use it. I use GPL'd software, and I personally dont like it, nor do I consider it a truly free license, compared BSD's "do whatever the fuck you want we dont care" mentality.
This just shows that the GPL is more of a cult/religion than a software license.
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Duh, yeah!
The guy was using sarcasm. SCO is asking for licenses for code that they released under the GPL, get it now?
What's really sad is that this was modded up as "Informative". As if /. readers don't know you can't ask for licensing fees under the GPL.
If SCO wins against IBM and they certainly could. They will go after Microsoft next. Although I think Microsoft will either buy them out or pay them off. The Really scary thing you have to think about is if SCO does win and Microsoft buys SCO what will happen?
should ask SCO to pay for a license
Why? They work for SCO, after all. Just wait until SCO announces that all open source developers must be SCO certified and licensed (for a hefty fee, of course), or else they'll sic the attorney dogs after them as well. ("Hey, that's not an unlicensed version of Linux you're running there on that Samba devbox, is it?")
Seriously, SCO's efforts may represent the greatest attempted intellectual property theft ever witnessed. Nothing like stealing the fruits of thousands of developers. Something like this used to require governments to pull off (e.g. nationalizing oil companies and railroads).
Apparently Mr. Boies felt that his near success in stealing an election and disqualifying the votes of thousands of military personnel gave him the necessary experience to steal the world's open source codebase.