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USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap
ronys writes "The venerable USENIX organization has written a fine response to SCO's letter to Congress.
As they point out, 'USENIX was here before SCO. USENIX was here before Linux.' Short and well written." And Reece Arnott writes: "As part of the NMap Press Release for the latest version of NMap, is a statement that explicitly revokes SCO's licence to redistribute it. From the press release: 'SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even unconstitutional)! Meanwhile they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their "Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux, Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms.'"
Doesn't the GPL say you cannot discriminate against any group?
People, yes. I didn't see any mention of pond scum, horse excrement or Mormons.
if (SCO topic)
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else if (Gadget stuff)
goto http://arstechnica.com
else if (Linux stuff)
goto http://linuxtoday.com
else if (good journalism stuff)
goto http://theregister.co.uk
else
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Cheers,
atarola
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. --H L Mencken
I suspect that after this next "Big Test," everyone will still be waiting on the "Big Test."
"Dear Mr McBride,
Please pay $699 for every installation of SCO Unix due to the presense of NMAP."
In USENIX Russia, Darl pays YOU $699!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Because surely it must have shot them all off by now.
Stick Men
Finally those capitalist bastards will pay for their crimes. 'Eh comrades? 'Eh?
Good point, although I am sure you will get modded down.
SCO's time to put up or shut up.
;-)
Uhm. How many times did we say that already in the past few months?
Since $CO seems to be touting integration with Windows networks, losing Samba would be one of the things that they couldn't afford to do.
Ah but grasshopper, you assume that SCO is in the software business.
If Samba falls in the woods and there are no Unixware servers installed, does anybody care?
Indeed comrade, SCO will be the fourth against the wall come the revolution!
Legolas: Ai! Ai! A Darlrog! A Darlrog is come!
Gimli: Calderin's Bane! (hides face)
Lindalf: Alas! A Darlrog. And I am already weary.
(to others) Fly! Over the bridge! This is a foe beyond any of you. I must hold the narrow way.
(to Darlrog) You cannot pass! I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the Flame of Finlandssvenskar. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Utah. Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass.
These sigs are more interesting tha
Also part of their press release:
To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, all instances of "fucked up" in error message text has been changed to "b0rked".
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
We're working on it.
They're mixing free beer and free speech.
EVERYBODY knows not to mix free beer and free speech... God, it's like mixing milk chocolate with Guinness...
how long until
I made your wife happy without any clothes at all.
It's not a shotgun attack; it's the death of a thousand cuts. I like it, and I've been waiting for GPL'd projects to start doing this.
In other news, SCO's smoking gun
has finally been revealed.This message has been scanned for memes and dangerous content by MindScanner, and is believed to be unclean.
So your tagline wasn't meant to be just funny, I guess... ;-)
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
I suppose they could have thousands of CD's there, but if no one buys SCO's stuff is that distributing?
"You say my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it?"
I dunno why people buy Windows either!
What exactly did you win? Bragging rights?
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Founder of the The Free Linux CD Project
HOLY CRAP! From the SCO Website!
Feb 27, 2004
For immediate release:
SCO Group of Linden, Utah announced the first end-user lawsuit designed to further their SCOSource program to get people to properly license SCO IP currently being distributed in Linux. SCO has filed suit against the owners of insecure.org who, according to Netcraft, are running Apache/Linux.
Asked for comment, SCO Group CEO Darl McBride responded: "It is a terrible day when IP owners have to resort to a lawsuit to protect their valuable IP interests. insecure.org had months to do the right thing and respect SCO IP by signing up for our SCOSource program, but they blatantly ignored our generous offer. It appears that the only option left open to us is to take our case to the courts where we will ultimately prevail. So, it is with great sadness and regret that the SCO Group announces this lawsuit, because we don't do business this way. It just goes to show you how far these IP terrorists will go to destroy the valuable creations of hard-working Americans. Nobody likes a lawsuit, but we have a right and a duty to protect ourselves and the Constitution of the United States from the evil axis of IP destruction that is the Open Source community."
Best. Comment. Ever. Enjoy!
"That's exactly it, Private. War's over. We won. Turns out you're the big hero. We're holding a parade in your honor. I get to drive the float. And Simmons here...IS IN CHARGE OF CONFETTI!"
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.