SCO Caught Copying

linuxwrangler writes "While accusing everyone else of copying "their" code, SCO has meanwhile been caught copying documentation. In fact they copied several chapters of the Book of Webmin directly into their online documentation. While the book is available online, it is not licensed for redistribution. Details are sparse but it appears that SCO had to pay the publisher for using the material."

Comments

Re:The Real Point

[Lochin Rabbar]

How the fuck does this get modded insightful, a lame troll comment with a link to the "hey everybody I'm looking at gay porn" site. Come on Taco fix the moderation system, because at the moment slashdot is fucked, and yes I fully expect to get bitch slapped for daring to point out the obvious.

Re:Uh

[Jonathan Platt]

Yes it is... intelectual property is still property by all definitions of the word, AND by all current laws in existance.

And you can say copyright infringement is different because it doesn't diminish the holders property, but it does, it diminishes the holders potential for returns.

We live in the information age and things like this need to be policed more than anything. If we allowed information based things to slide we'd see things like insider trading flourish and we'd all be a hell of a lot worse off.