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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'."
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...
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
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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