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Eric Raymond's Homebrew SCO Poison

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-off-the-star-wars-kick-already dept.

What Can You Expect From A University Named "UH?" writes "Eric S. Raymond responds to Darl McBride's charge that he's drinking IBM's Kool-Aid in SCO's fight against Linux. The main thrust: Yes, there is an alliance against SCO, but, like the Open Source movement itself, it arises from lots of folks spontaneously striving for a common goal. 'It's beyond me how [you] can have the gall to talk as though we need funding or marching orders from IBM to mobilize against you. IBM couldn't stop us from mobilizing!' "

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  1. Duplicate :-( by grandmofftarkin · · Score: 4, Informative

    The exact same response found in the link provided in this new story can also be found in the final link update in the old story. See Update: 08/22 18:26 GMT by M: ESR responds. Hence this is a duplicate.

  2. Re:Eric should be more careful by Faggot · · Score: 5, Informative

    ESR is threatening to use every legal means available to fight SCO. that's legal, justified, implied and expected.

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  3. Re:Eric should be more careful by Seth+Finklestein · · Score: 5, Informative

    As long as the letter is to an individual in re his position as a company executive, it is still subject to free speech provisions. In Voight v. Harbiller (search for it on Lexis/Nexis) our fabled McDonald's crusader was sued by Leslie Voight, McDonald's VP of Marketing. Voight alleged that Harbiller tried to threaten her in his letter that was delivered to her house. Guess who won?

    I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can't buy your way out of the first amendment.

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  4. Re:More independent thinking by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since last Wednesday, SCO has risen by about 40%. No particular news has come out, and the volume, while above average, hasn't exactly been blockbuster. Hard to say what's happening here, really. With only 13.1 million shares outstanding, it wouldn't take a whole ton of activity to drive the price rapidly in one direction or another...

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  5. SCO's MIT mathematicians go AWOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    SCO's MIT mathematicians go AWOL

    SCO said, they had three teams, including a team from MIT math department, examine their "proof" of UNIX code improperly in Linux

    1. No such team could be found at MIT. And SCO are back tracking on this claim.

    http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N33/33sco.33n.html

    2. Here is an example quote that SCO made about MIT math involvement:

    http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/gove rnment/legalissues/story/0,10801,81973,00.html

    SCO was able to uncover the alleged violations by hiring three teams of experts, including a group from the MIT math department, to analyze the Linux and Unix source code for similarities. "All three found several instances where our Unix source code had been found in Linux," said a SCO spokesman.

  6. For A New SCO Article... by EzInKy · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...that discusses getting preliminary injunctions against them, you can go here.

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  7. Not a threat by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 4, Informative

    The proper term for promising Legal action and not doing it is Barratry..

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=barratr y

    Whereas ERS promising that if certain action is not stopped that SCO and McBride wil face legal consequences is a perfect legal statement to make in that it does not open OSI or ESR to any other liabilities..

    as it stands Now any Linux User not charged by SCO Group has the right to ask the court to convict SCO group on Barratry charges..

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