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SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF
fymidos writes "SCO has finally spoken. According to this linuxworld article, they claim that linux illegally uses the ELF binary format, the JFS filesystem, the init code and some more 'copyrighted Unix header and interfaces'. Finally SCO makes its move. The JFS part was expected of course, but according to the article, as far as the ELF format is concerned 'the Tool Interface Standard Committee (TISC) came up with a ELF 1.2 standard' and 'granted users a "non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license" to the stuff'. Oh, and of course 'both Novell and the old SCO - as well as Microsoft, IBM and Intel - were on the committee'."
THIS was rated "Insightful"?!? You've GOT to be kidding me. This was Troll/Offtopic, if anything.
"Insightful" is more like claiming that left-wing extremists like MoveOn.org are right in connecting Bush with Hitler. The tie here would be that Hitler was quoted as saying (something to the effect of) "If you say it loud enough, long enough, and often enough, the people will believe it." Granted, it's still (kinda) offtopic, but at least it makes the connection with NewSCO's habit of proclaiming lies ad nauseum, hoping that people with think there's some truth to what they're whining about.
Grow up, people. Leave the political bantering on the political posts, and keep it off of the legal crap (unless there's a direct provable tie).
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
You're both idiots, the lawsuit against IBM was launched not long after 2.6.0 came out.
Besides, even if you were right (you aren't), 2.6.0 is just the 2.5 tree with a new number, and that'd been around a long while.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
By first declaring war on a country, then arresting their soldiers and then all of the sudden claiming they were "illegal combatants" I'd say his actions made it pretty clear that he considers the Geneva Convention irrelevant.... Unless of course it doesn't help him politically (say, by pictures of dead US soldiers showing up in the evening news).
No, he is making the UN irrelevant, he and the US government ignore the UN whenever they like, and because they are the biggest whatever they do has a lot of consequences. The US is also one of the biggest debtors to the UN. Rather sad if you think about it.
The UN never was (and in all probablity) will never be "world government" despite what the US conspiracy nuts say. The UN doesn't have an army, doesn't have any real power. It is a "townhall meeting" on global scale where people come together to make decisions together.
This somewhat seems to have escaped the US Administration for quite some time as well as a lot of the "right wing zealots" who seem to decry the UN every chance they get.
If you want to e-mail me, use my PGP Key.
If he runs and gets elected (he has name recognition, which none of his opponents has), then what?
Or do you not allow non-convicted people to run, contrary to most democracies?
It would have been better to let the UN sort it out. What a mess.
Imagine his slogan - "Are you better off today then before the US invaded? No more Bush!"
Unfortunately this isn't funny. This is what all those people are striving to prevent. This is what 9/11 was about. People don't want to be washed over in the 7 deadly sins that the US culture perpetuates.