SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void

wes33 writes "Groklaw has a link to SCO's replies to IBM's amended complaints. Some choice bits: '6th Affirmative Defense - The GPL is unenforceable, void and/or voidable, and IBM's claims based thereon, or related thereto, are barred. ... 7th Affirmative Defense - The GPL is selectively enforced by the Free Software Foundation such that enforcement of the GPL by IBM or others is waived, estopped or otherwise barred as a matter of equity. ... 8th Affirmative Defense - The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM's claims based theron, or related thereto, are barred.' Comments are pouring in ... not all of them complimentary to SCO or its legal strategy." Considering that the GPL and the GNU project rely on and affirm the protections of copyright, this seems like a strange argument to pursue.

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Re:I can't take much more of this

[yintercept]

~my $.02

Including a price tag is an odd way to end an article on the wonders of free software.

BTW, free software often exists for less than pure motives...such as an attempt to cut a competitor from a potential revenue source, or in an attempt to gain an advantage in another area. The best example is ie. Smaller examples are contractors who OSS a project with the hope that someone else will take over the less lucrative act of support while the make the big bucks on the glamorous initial sales.

PS, I don't claim a monetary value to the stuff I put in forums.

As for the SCO challenge, they are just a hot wind machine that will say whatever they can for the cash. They would be blowing steam regardless of the GPL license.

the pigs

[Negativeions101]

My urge to kill goes through the roof with garbage like "the GPL is unamerican". Ya, you knwo what's unhuman? Satanic pigs like the money grubbing neo-con pigs of america like Bill Gates. Choke on your money pig. You will die and rot in hell and burn there for eternirty adn you don't even care... pathetic....

Re:Can you say, "Pump and Dump"?

[Anonymous Coward]

If the little guy can get organized, it can actually fight back now.

You mean like a "terrorist"?

Re:Can you say, "Pump and Dump"?

[chunkwhite86]

don't make out like everything's rosy now saddam's gone, cos for most Iraqis times are much worse now than they were at any time under Hussein)

I didn't say everything is rosy now, but it sure as hell is better now than it was under Saddam. You obviously are speaking from the perspective of the liberal, filtered, US media machine. There is far more good going on there than you have a grasp on. Do a little homework and learn something that isn't on the 10 'oclock news.