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SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-just-gets-more-interesting dept.

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."

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  1. FIRST PR0ST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP ;)

    1. Re:FIRST PR0ST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hay d00ds wahts going on in this post?

  2. NEO DIES, SMITH TAKES HIM OVER, TRINITY DIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry to spoil it.

  3. Hey SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop it you big brute.

    You are going to make me cry.

    boo hoo hoo, there, happy you big poo head

    SCO is a big poo head!

  4. Cry me a river by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    Why aren't you calling for cease and desist letters for music pirates? Why is it OK to violate RIAA company's copyrights but not Linux??

  5. Re:Hmm.. question.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The so-called "War On Terror" would be more accurately named "War on Islamic Extremists That Seek To Kill Westerners."

    Besides being much too long to be a successful catch-phrase, the accurate definition would also probably be illegal under the American constitutional separation of church and state. Americans are allowed to be religious extremists, Islamic, Christian, Atheist or whatever. A war against "Islamic Extremists" would be too reminiscent of the Crusades back in the dark ages... the American public would reject such a label.

    So we wage war against the actions of those extremists and we use the word "Terrorism" to describe those actions. The definition is not a perfect fit and that is why the meaning is so flexible.

  6. Re:That's right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody else think that IANAL looks like I-ANAL, and perhaps isn't the greatest acronym?

  7. Class Action by Catskul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IANAL, but what about a class action suit? Have everyone who has ever submitted any work to the kernel participate.

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  8. Re:That's right by pyrrhonist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What you don't realize is that the Japanese were planning on doing the same thing.

    The Japanese used balloons to send bombs filled with biological weapons to the U.S.

    They had a huge biological weapons plant in China, and they used biological weapons on the Chinese - the effects of which are still affecting China.

    They Japanese developed submarines capable of carrying airplanes, and were planning on using them to attack California with biological weapons and spread disease. This would have caused massive loss of life in the U.S. for many years.

    One thing stopped this from happening: the U.S. dropped the bomb and Japan surrended just a few days before the scheduled attack.

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