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FSF Subpoenaed by SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bradley M. Kuhn on the FSF website: Late last year, we were subpoenaed by SCO as part of the ongoing dispute between SCO and IBM. Today, we made that subpoena available on our website. This is a broad subpoena that effectively asks for every single document about the GPL and enforcement of the GPL since 1999. They also demand every document and email that we have exchanged with Linus Torvalds, IBM, and other players in the community. In many cases, they are asking for information that is confidential communication between us and our lawyers, or between us and our contributors."

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  1. This is provocative! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SCO subpoenaed a contract that I executed with the FSF for a project that had nothing whatsoever to do with their case against IBM. Yes, they demanded a copy of a contract between two parties not involved in their lawsuit concerning an unrelated project.

    Because SCO has made public statements indicating that they consider the GPL to be invalid, and since that is the only license under which I permit some of my work to be used, and since they have involved me in this fray, I want to be perfectly clear about this. SCO is to discontinue use of any intellectual property I have licensed under the GPL unless and until they execute a signed copy of the GPL with me to indicate their acceptance of it. They may at that time resume use of my intellectual property. Until that time, they are to remove that intellectual property completely. They are not authorized to have a copy of it in their possession, or distribute it. They are not permitted to use it, directly or indirectly through any third party or agent.

  2. He who has the gold makes the rules. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It doesn't matter if we are right. Bill Gates bet on the Republicans winning the last Prez election and got John Ashcroft (some clown who lost his last election to a dead man) to essentially dismiss the anti-trust case. SCO/Microsoft/deTocquville /ITAA etc. can appeal this mess all the way to friendly territory : the Republican dominated Supreme Court. No telling what twisted concepts of property Scalia and Rehnquist have.

  3. Dont understand by KarMax · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's weird, i don't understand...
    Why nobody (producers/script-makers) make a script and sell the whole story to Warner channel? It's better than "Friends".

    Don't tell me:
    "They are waitng the end"

    EVERYBODY knows the end of this story...

    SCO talk, talk, talk...
    FSF, present some proofs

    And OF COURSE, theres no story without SEX, so at the end of the movie Linus and RMS, FUCK Darl McBride.
    (Linus and RMS, culd be drunk for this part, becouse McBride is REALLY DISGUSTING)

    --
    Rock and Roll
  4. Re:Nothing to hide? by Nordicfire · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    have never tasted the heady nectar of freedom.

    Like the freedom of having kiddie porn on your computer? I don't want to taste such "freedom".