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Groklaw Outlines More SCO Linux Contributions
An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw today reported that they have discovered another SCO programmer, Tigran Aivazian, who has committed code to the Linux kernel. According to the latest story Mr. Aivazian contributed a microcode update feature, a testing program, and made contributions to SMP and vmalloc. This new story adds weight to earlier stories about Caldera coder Chris Hellwig's additions to XFS, SMP and JFS. " Also on the SCO front, an anonymous reader writes "SCO's last Open Letter has drawn two new responses, one from Red Hat cofounder Bob Young, and the other from Jon 'maddog' Hall. 'maddog' makes a carefully reasoned rebuttal that defends the GPL and includes observations like 'How could the founding fathers or the early legislators have foreseen the Web, or even computers?' Young curtly offers McBride the following advice: 'Be less vocal' - making him the King Canute of Linux, perhaps, because it ain't gonna happen anytime soon."
This article is interesting because it shows that some of the code allegedly added by IBM was in fact added by SCO itself.
Actually, the SCO side is back down...nobody really knows why yet.
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You'll notice that the entire point is that Groklaw has now established these contributors had policy/supervisor approval.
We always knew that Mr. Aivazian contributed to Linux; the new thing that Groklaw has unveiled here is that he can be proven to have been acting as an authorized agent of SCO.
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That's why the US government is now the oldest in existence
I don't mean to nitpick, but the last "regime change" in Britain occurred during the 1640-1660 civil wars. The British Parliament is one of the oldest institutions in Europe, dating from the 1200s. True, the nature of the government has changed over time, but fundamentally it is still a monarchy which governs through a parliament.
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Actually, SCO does NOT have to show the code "in court" in January. They have to provide it to IBM. There are protective orders in place such that SCO's "secret" code need not be directly disclosed in public. Though, I've yet to figure out why SCO needs such privacy on code they claim most any of us supposedly already have in plain text in /usr/src/linux.
Groklaw is being generously hosted by ibiblio... that being said, it'd be nice if /. did something to help out with how they crush people's bandwidth, but in fact they don't want to take responsibility for anything of the sort... which is why some websites who *do* have to worry about paying for bandwidth have redirected incoming visitors from /. in the past...
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Italy wasnt a completed nation state until 1870.
Russian government changed several times in 1619 with the election of Michel Romanav as the next czar. 1917 with the creation of the provisional Government under Kerensky and 1917 again with the seizure of power by lenin.
France has gone through a few republics ... not to mention the whole Vichy thing and the Revolution occured in 1789 I believe.
Greece lost and regain its independence several times and went through several government types. The same is true with Egypt.
Outside of say Iceland he is generally correct.
Hey Just cause it involves America doesnt mean its always wrong or bad :).
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Hall writes: ".. GPL does not allow a company to take the software created by the sweat and work of another person, add a few lines of code to it and then sell it to make a huge profit."
In fact, the GPL _does_ allow this. There is no restriction in taking a GPLed piece of code, adding lines of code (or not) and then selling it to someone for $X dollars. (1 Jillion Dollars! finger to corner of mouth). In fact, it's completely allowed so long as the buyer recieves the _same_ GPL rights (and source on demand). Why someone would purchase a GPLed product (sans support or other value added) for such an amount is another question, but in fact, a number of people out there do just such a thing, including with code that the original author has changed license terms on and no longer provides GPLed code themselves. Once a GPLed copy is out there, it's out there. Which is a good thing. Despite SCO's claims.
[Major market players such as Mandrake began by 'adding lines of code' to existing products such as Red Hat.]
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Interesting. My father (a professional historian who takes interest in such matters) reckons that the oldest administrative region (in terms of borders) in the world is the county of Kent, whose borders are the same as the ancient borders of the kingdom of the Cantii. Its rival used to be certain provinces in China, but those borders got altered under the Maoists.
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.