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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?"
It took them this long to provide their "proof." Undoubtedly, their "evidence" will be "tampered" with in short order.
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Haha, that limerick was funny, if only because it made fun of the truly terrible limericks in its parent post.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
.... SCO is screwed
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i would wish to point out, that, a few years before many years ago, i had designed a program as follows: PRINT("Hello"); Then mwa came along, added some headers, and converted PRINT to print. Consequently, i own all rights to all C/C++/C#/JAVA/VB and other language programs, since they're all derived from print, which is derived from PRINT. Everyone using a computer, can now pay me $699.00 now, or $2000 sometime after i extend the original discounted price 3 to 27 times. I will sue a computer user in the next 90 days, and have letters sent to all fortune 500 companies that use computers. Thank you for your business.
And you're too gutless to post them again in this thread at the risk of being moderated -1 Redundant? It's not true karma-whoring until you risk coming back as a Toad on the Information Superhighway.
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Not sure if this is old news, but when i looked up "linux" on thescogroup.com's main page in their search bar, i got this page: http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense. html
As it states at the top of the above link,
"SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux"
and near the bottom,
"End users who purchase this license are granted the right to use the SCO IP in Linux in binary format only. The license is available immediately and can be purchased by credit card through our online store."
Below this was a "Buy Now" button.
This to me is frankly, quite disturbing that they are already seeking money from linux users.
When I clicked on the "Buy Now" button I was redirected to a page with the following options:
SCO IP Paid Up License - 1-CPU - $699.00
SCO IP Paid Up License - 2 CPU - $1,149.00
SCO IP Paid Up License - 4-CPU - $2,499.00
SCO IP Paid Up License - 8-CPU - $4,999.00
SCO IP Paid Up License - Additional CPU - $749.00
SCO IP Paid Up License - Desktop (Note: CPU Licensing is not applicable to Desktop systems) - $199.00
Thescogroup.com should be shut down and prevented from collecting any "licensing fees" before it is proven that there was copying of code and that SCO is due some reimbursement(sp).
"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
All your codebase are belong to us.