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OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims

Posted by simoniker on from the rapidly-approaching-infinity dept.

Ridgelift writes "The Open Source Development Labs have released a paper entitled SCO: Without Fear and Without Research [PDF, HTML version at the FSF] where Eben Moglen debunks SCO's claims to copyright infringement, and also discusses how they contradict themselves by citing that the GPL is both invalid and provides them legal protection. More information at the OSDL site and via an Internet.com article."

6 of 290 comments (clear)

  1. killkillkill by koll64 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well this counts for today's amount of SCO bashing

  2. ASCII GREASED UP YODA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Goddamit, that ASCII Yoda looks like he's gonna lunge outta the screen and attack me!

    ASCII GREASED UP YODA is scary! Those ears stick out like daggars! I give ASCII GREASED UP YODA a difficulty rating of 9.999YEEEEEEOW!

  3. Stallman bandwagon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It looks like Eben Moglen wants to be on the Dick Stallman GNU/Linux bandwagon, but seems to have some trouble figuring out just what that bandwagon is:

    "... the free software operating system kernel called Linux."

    "... examples of code from the Linux program ..."

    "... the Linux kernel program ..."

    "... that the Linux program contains material ..."

    "... code in the variant of the Linux program ..."

    "No version of the Linux program for Intel architectures had ever contained ..."

    Despite this, there are many (normal) "Linux kernel" references, and also some bare "Linux"s, but the bare ones sometimes have "quotes" around them and sometimes don't.

    Methinks the FSF needs to publish a "Linux style guide". The wording here was so awkward they come across as a bit ignorant of what Linux actually is.

  4. What's the point... by An+Anonymous+Hero · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's the point of referencing this Internet.com article? All it does is rehash the actual source (which we also get, thanks) in biz-speak; add those "(Quote, Chart)" references for those who regard the market as the arbiter of all truths; terminate all sentences with "he wrote", "she said"; and wrap the whole thing in ghastly illiterate thoughtless style:
    The first employs the "Berkeley Packet Filter" (BPF) firewall but SCO ever held an ownership interest in the original BPF implementation
    s/ever/never
    Moglen said a pattern matching search shows SCO what it thought was an example of copying
    s/SCO what it/what SCO
    but the "C code" shown in the slides was first incorporated in Unix Version 3
    "C code"?! Please!! does "Christmas" need quotes now?
    SCO used pattern matching to associate code as its own
    s/associate/claim
    It has therefore published its supposed trade secrets and copy-righted material
    s/copy-righted/copyrighted
    distribute under GPL (define)
    Quote a totally botched "definition"...
    He also sees merit in IBM's counterclaim against SCO raises with respect to IBM's contributions to the Linux kernel.
    (Sentence doesn't parse.)
    anyone who violates GPL automatically loses
    s/GPL/the GPL

    Etc., etc. Wasn't Slashdot's point to link original sources so as to spare us such tripe? Editors: edit!

  5. Really! by whittrash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you sell your soul to the devil yet?

  6. Re:TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Informative? If you find a gaping ass informative, then be my guest.

    I believe that that's a picture of Darl McBride after a night spent in a Utah crack house.

    The guy's got to pay for his pleasure somehow. Revenue from the sale of SCO software isn't going to do it, so he's forced to put on a traditional 'geek show' for the other paying customers.

    The crack stops him from feeling any pain while the Lindon branch of the Crips take turns at fisting him.

    How else did you suppose he got those great big balls of steel?