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SCO Caught Copying

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-as-funny dept.

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."

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  1. Oi, reminds me... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Things are awfully silent around SCO lately...Cat got Darl's tongue?

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  2. Irony by hawkeyeMI · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The irony here is palpable. Not that we expected anything more. Aren't there suspicions that their "Linux Kernel Personality" is a direct Linux ripoff as well?

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  3. Re:Uh by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It goes like this.

    Good person:
    1) Pay for content
    2) Get content.

    Bad person:
    1) Get content.
    2) if (Gets_Caught())
    Pay_For_Content();
    else
    Never_Pay();

    The point is, they likely wouldn't have paid if they didn't get caught, and they still broke the law. Do you say everything's ok and you're just like a normal, honest citizen after you've served your 4 years in jail for auto theft, or do you have a GTA record?

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