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SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims
mugnyte writes "Those tireless folks at groklaw have transcribed and published the documents from the latest IBM/SCO hearing. In it, the exact lines of the supposed Dynix / AIX / Linux logic are given. SCO claimed that Linux's read copy update, journaling file system, enterprise volume management system, AIO (Asynchronous I/O), and "scatter gather" I/O code had been derived from either AIX or Dynix/ptx. Now we can take a look at what SCO thinks makes Linux an enterprise-ready platform started at 2.4, stealing away their market share. However, IBM released these things under the GPL ... so what license did IBM really have from SCO to do this? Which raises the question, What license did SCO have from Novell to disallow this?"
Ahhh, that stuff never gets old. Let it fly again!
I have a flashback to Heavy Metal, the trial of Captain Stern(Darl) when they call out Sterns' "angle" Hanover Fist(Po' Badari)!
"PULAVARTY, CALLING BADARI PULAVARTY TO THE STAND!"
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Guinness in a bottle...? BRILLIANT!!!
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You're not helping by adding all this noise to the conversation.
This "noise" is the conversation.
Need someone to explain the concept of slashdot to you?
...OSDN registers "scodot.org" so we can have all of the aimless SCO news there, and then maybe we can see something else on Slashdot. I suppose then we could only use Slashdot to gripe about the new Microsoft Office commercials, since they clearly pose more of a threat to Linux than SCO ever will. Clearly.
I am feeling fat and sassy
Poindexter was a pawn in a massive power grab by a Congress that couldn't get a Democrat elected President. Some reference first, the Iran-Contra affair.
Simply put, the heavily Democrat Congress wanted to dictate foreign policy to Ronald Reagan, specifically how to deal with Communist Nicaragua. This was traditionally an executive power, though not constitutionally delimited as such, except inasmuch as Executive branch officials and military personnel are under the President's orders, not Congress'.
Whitewater had more meat to it than Iran-Contra, at least someone did something plausibly illegal there. What was done was ugly and distasteful, but not illegal. If anything was illegal, the Boland amendment was. The Congress had no Constitutional power to regulate the Executive branch in this way. The unwillingness of the higher officials in the Executive branch to admit that they were responsible for the actions (Shultz, Reagan) was what provoked the investigation and maddened the Dems into organizing a witch hunt. And it was a witch hunt.
Ollie North and Eliott Abrams (I believe this is a sic, his name is Eliot, but we'll go with the wiki here) were convicted on some pretty pathetic charges of 'lying to Congress' and 'accepting gratuities' (Abrams was browbeaten into it by 5 years of investigations that bankrupted him, read his book "Undue Process" for more details). Ollie North we know about, and his stupid security fence that he got convicted over.
Poindexter's part in this was to act as the fall guy. Apparently his conviction and taking of the majority of the blame for this was considered more acceptable than the political backlash of admitting what was done to the public.
Overall, an ugly incident but considering the relative merit of both sides - consider that the uber-slime and since disgraced Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Torricelli were two of the cheerleaders on the Democrat side, it just shows how really ugly politics is. Your vehement hatred of Poindexter is misguided in this light.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:4, Interesting) - With the MP3 link
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:0, Offtopic) - With the rebuttal
Ahem, mods on crack. If you're going to make them offtopic, make them both offtopic or don't mod them at all.
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