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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."
Suckers!
So if they paid the publisher for the documentation, why is this even a story?
People in glass houses... yada yada yada.
My userid is prime!
Yeah more SCO just what I needed. Almost didn't get my weekley alotment.
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Hoist by their own Picard!
If sco already paid to use the matieral in their docs, then this story smacks of infantile finger pointing based on a half-cocked submitter.
Is this post a: a) troll
b) flaimbait? SCO is right to defend the IP that it owns, how dare you linux zealots question their authority?
c) Insightful I wonder if the employees responsible for this were involved in the layoffs at all, they should have been.
d) Funny Next thing ya know they are going to have illegal copies of Darl McBride's new business book, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Working"
e) FP!
As seen on this google cache of an older version of the webmin documentation, it's kind of ambiguous to whether and how you can redistribute it. We should consider this incident apart from SCO's recent doings, to be fair.
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Feh! SCO is old news. They will be dead in less than two years and Darl will be getting his ass reamed on a constant basis by big Bubba in federal prison. Darl McBride will be made to have forced homosexual in jail.
If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
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No. Did you even read the summary?
SCO apparantly paid for the docs. Which means that they're as free and clear as if they hired a tech writier to write new docs and license them to SCO.
Ahhhhh hahahahahahaha
wheeewwww... Priceless
The kettle calls the POT black!
Fuck you.
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