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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'."
What does Santa have to say about this?
What the Heck, eh?
biznitch
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I have but one response: BWHAHAHAHAHA!!! These guys are LAME.
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> I guess they figure it they declare it invalid,
>then it must be.
they're just learning from the bush administrations... i mean - they've called the geneva conventions "invalid" for a while now...
... hi bingo
Are 7000 users of events Vtoday, wh3re it belongs,
geneva conventions "invalid"
While I may not like Bush, I suggest you read the Geneva Conventions, to quote Article 4 relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (which I am guessing you are talking about), doing so will show you that they do not apply to 'terrorists':
Article 4
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
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However, it's begining to appear that many of the victims of Abu Gahrab (sp?) are in fact "Inhabitants of Occupied Territory" and just ordinary citizens rounded up because our military thought they *might* have information about WMDs that didn't exist so nobody had any information about them.
It's hard to deny that Bush's memo about Gitmo didn't influence what happened at Abu Gahrab, but I think far more important was his removal of prisons from the Department of Defense to the State Department. I still say that if you know somebody leaving for Iraq, make sure they have a copy of the Geneva Convention on them, in both English and Arabic. Because sure as shooting, neither side in this war has a military hierarchy that gives a shit one way or the other if international treaties are followed- as long as the one side gets the oil and the other side gets more young recruits to die fighting the infidels.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
He also said the the UN is at risk of becoming irrelevent, which some would argue is a bit late
The UN is only irrelevant when the USA, runs willy-nilly over international law, invading/occupying foreign nations and then saying "the UN is irrelevant -- they cant do anything to stop Iraq, OR US".
So, to prove the UN is becoming irrelevant, the USA dares the world to do something to stop them -- do you fucknuts *WANT* to start WWIII?
I know you're out there...I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid.
You're afraid of us, you're afraid of change...I don't know the future...
I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end,
I came here to tell you how this is going to begin.
Now, I'm going to hang up this phone,
and I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see.
I'm going to show them a world without you...a world without rules and controls,
without borders or boundaries.
A world...where anything is possible.
Where we go from there...is a choice I leave to you...
WARNING! BLATANT GRAMMAR/SPELLING-NAZI COMMENT
.. my mind cries when it reads something like this. is the "writer", like, totally, a 9 year old girl? what about an editor? those still exist, right?
"ELF is sorta like Microsoft's DLLs and was developed..."
SCO's (baseless) arguments aside
Good point. I never thought of it from that angle. I personally think that long-term the war in Iraq will have been a very good thing.
I always used the Saddam argument to prove the UN irrelevant. The fact that they couldn't stop the US from attacking Iraq either should be the final nail in THAT coffin.
nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos
Yeah... Believe it or not, I saw it coming.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
How come Bush bashing equates to "leftist crowd" (as if that was an insult of some sort). Isn't it conceivable that there are many republicans and libertarians who disagree with Bush?
Don't you know? When people are involved, everything is politics (.)
I love this shit. Keep it up.
ummm no, in 1997-8 weapons inspectors were kicked out of Iraq under threat of imprisonment for being in the country illegally.
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Heh, i downloaded the movie just out of curiosity since it was actually in imdb ;)
;)
It was just as bad as i was expecting, and i can now clearly see why someone who like the movie would start a flamegroup...
You claim we only read in-important news, yet you spend you days hitting refresh, waiting for the opportunity to "troll" us... who is the real loser here
You, because you care.
owned.
about your sig, great work. Most people seem wilfully ignorant of the fact that the guy obviously hates the armed forces. Cutting combat pay in half? Reducing vetrans benefits? 1.5 billion cut from military housing? no healthcare for reservists?
;)
oh yeah. A vote for Bush is a vote supporting the military...taking a long walk off a short pier.
It's been a long time.