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USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap

Posted by michael on from the tit-for-tat dept.

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.'"

12 of 846 comments (clear)

  1. From Stephenson by pixelbend · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the beginning...the was the command line. -Neal Stephenson

    --
    Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
    1. Re:From Stephenson by pixelbend · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ...there was... Nothing spoils good comedy like bad typing.

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      Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
  2. Re:We live in interesting times.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    holy shit fuck you faggot nice fp!

  3. Oops. by ActiveSX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As far as I can tell, this sort of thing violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines, rule number 5:

    No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

    The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

  4. Re:Fyodor: A Slashdot Sponsored Criminal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, well.. I'm a criminal too. And no one gives a shit. You did some lame shit and you got hacked, you deserve it you asshole.

  5. HEY FYODOR! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Im a hot sexy busty horny geek chick. will you help me install slackware tonight?

  6. Re:Fyodor: A Slashdot Sponsored Criminal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So... someone who poses as a woman on web sites and then tells their sadass "buddies" about the people who emailed them, thinking they were a woman... ...is not a socipathic wanker?

    Earth to you: You're a shithead. Do us all a favor and die.

  7. And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sllort, you're a fag. Get over it.

  8. Dear Sdem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please to be guzzling some cum, fag.

    Yours,

    Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day

  9. Re:We live in interesting times.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Re: Your sig,

    I think Google crawled some more...

    Results 1 - 10 of about 354,000,000. Search took 0.21 seconds.

    (Plus she's getting lazier...0.21 secs)

  10. About Damn time by jmpnz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go Fyodor

  11. Re:Forget SCO... by SkunkPussy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > how often to well respected tools link to cheasy porn sites? http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_haxxxor.html

    she is so rank its untrue

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    SURELY NOT!!!!!