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SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL
Pogue Mahone writes "According to The Register, SCO is now distributing Linux code under a more restrictive license than the GPL. This is a violation of copyright, since only the GPL gives them any rights to distribute the code.
Time for every single developer who has contributed code to the kernel to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO."
GPL is invalid and has never been tested in court. Some hippies came up with it on the pretense that it actually had to do anything with the copyright law. You have been mislead. You have lost. Have a nice day. Switch to BSD license.
How to access RPMs and SRPMs for OpenLinux, eServer, or eDesktop through the password accessible download area.
The Linux rpm and sprm files once available on SCO's ftp site are now offered for download to existing customers of OpenLinux, eServer, or eDesktop through a protected download area. To enter these areas you will be asked for a username and password. If you do not have a username and password, please read the Registration section below.
The download location for OpenLinux, eServer and eDesktop products can be located at:
http://linuxupdate.sco.com/openlinux
The Caldera System Updated (kcupdate/cupdate)
The Caldera System Updated (kcupdate/cupdate) will remain available to our customers for Linux non-kernel rpm files. To access Linux kernel rpm and srpms files you will need to use the protected download site noted above.
Registration
In order to honor our support obligations to our customers, the registration process has been updated to deliver you username and password information. If you have registered in the past, we ask that you re-register so that we can deliver the information you need. Registration of each product license is necessary, the registration site is located at:
http://www.sco.com/register
During the registration process you will be asked to enter the product license number and code located on the license card you received with your product. At the completion of the registration process, you will receive a UserName, Password and FTP site location information. Please keep this information as you will need to use this information to gain access to Linux rpm and sprm files.
Note: If you are an SCO Linux customer, the SCO Linux SRPMs once located from the FTP site are now available through a protected download site. To access, please use the username and password you received during the product registration process.
The download location for SCO Linux 4.0 products can be located at:
http://linuxupdate.sco.com/scolinux
we'll Slashdot their mail room....
Nah.... how about their server...
http://www.sco.com/support/linux_info.html
So many of you Slashdotters think that committing copyright violations against RIAA is just fine, but as soon as someone does it to Linux, you're all up in arms.
Yeah, and those guys are idiots and they don't represent all of us.
Hahaha... You're not from the US, right?
;-)
You don't have the money to do anything except buying the stamps for your pathetic C&D letter.
Go to a US lawyer and tell him you wan't to sue SCO. Just go. And you'll see what will (not) happen. - Know US laws, he might thank you buy SCOX instead.
You're a little nobody. The only choice you have is terrorism. Yeah, I said "Terrorism" because since GWB the meaning of "Terrorism" has become pretty flexible
Kinda like how Americans have been sponsoring overseas terrorism for decades, but go nuts and put stickers everywhere when the World Trade Center gets attacked.
But to keep it on topic, I think a lot of us such as myself are buying from labels like Nuclear Blast and Century Media that are not affiliated with the RIAA.
But to keep it on topic, I think a lot of us such as myself are buying from labels like Nuclear Blast and Century Media that are not affiliated with the RIAA.
I think a lot of Slashdotters do that in addition to pirating RIAA material.
evil adrian
They have got completely out of control. This is like giving legitimacy to the Mafia. Someone really needs to pack the truck with exploding material and drive it the fuck through their front door.
I'm proud of SCO for doing this and think that it'd be great if some of the bits that Linux has stolen from BSD were reintegrated back into BSD.
*kicks Linux in the balls* Go suck on a legal case for a few years and share the lime light with that other, better operating system (hint hint, FreeBSD!!!!).
This, along with the aborted attempt to sell binary run-time licences that restrict rights in a similar fashion, may be exactly the mistakes the GNU/Linux copyright owners have been waiting for.
No, what the (US) linux hacker have been waiting ofr is to gow a pair. The german linux hackers shut up SCO germany MONTHS AGO. Gitto for the linux hackers ina ny other number of countries. But it counts for nothing if the US linux people don;t do anything, and thy still have not. McBride knows that he will win by default, since noone on the US can be bothered to do more than talk.