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IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement

Posted by simoniker on from the kill-em-all dept.

gvc writes "So much for the GPL 'never being tested in court.' IBM, in its third motion for summary judgement against SCO, is seeking a permanent injunction against SCO's distribution of Linux, on the grounds that SCO has renounced and violated the GPL, and therefore has no right to distribute the 700,000 lines of IBM-copyrighted code therein. As usual, Groklaw broke the story." We previously reported on another IBM summary judgement from earlier this week.

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  1. HMM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Linux is a computer operating system that has been (and is being) developed collaboratively by thousands of developers over the Internet. Like many others, IBM has contributed source code to the development of Linux and owns valid copyrights in its contributions."

    Why isn't it called GNU/Linux? Won't someone think of the children?

  2. Re:Not really true. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually th USA only usefull purpose is to entertain the rest of the world.
    Sitcoms / Movies / Music and so forth.

    The problem is that the USA started to believe it's own rambo movies.

    retep.

  3. Re:Just Linux? by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 0, Troll

    You got two +5 and one +3 out of what is essentially one post? You've taken karma whoring to a whole new level :)