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.'"

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Slashdot backend code

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Slashdot backend code

[Jarnis]

You forgot couple of lines from there pointing randomly to new york times (free reg blaah blaah blaah...)

From the changelog [OT]

[atarola]

To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, all instances of "fucked up" in error message text has been changed to "b0rked".

I wish i could do this kind of stuff in my programming, it's freaking hilarious.

Cheers,
atarola

Re:From the changelog [OT]

[grub]

I wish i could do this kind of stuff in my programming, it's freaking hilarious.

man sed

;)

Re:We live in interesting times..

[dnoyeb]

I suspect that after this next "Big Test," everyone will still be waiting on the "Big Test."

Obligatory $699 Joke

[AtariAmarok]

"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!

How Many Feet Does a SCO Have?

[turgid]

Because surely it must have shot them all off by now.

Re:We live in interesting times..

[Curtman]

Finally those capitalist bastards will pay for their crimes. 'Eh comrades? 'Eh?

Re:About time someone did it

[krumms]

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?

Re:We live in interesting times..

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

Indeed comrade, SCO will be the fourth against the wall come the revolution!

Couldn't resist...

[CaptainAlbert]

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.

Anyone else notice this?

[Anonymous Coward]

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".

Re:We live in interesting times..

[Geek of Tech]

No Austin, the Cold War's over.... we won....

Re:We live in interesting times..

[Farce Pest]

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.