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Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO
mattOzan writes "Groklaw is reporting that Novell has just filed a reply with an exhibit in support of their motion to dismiss SCO's complaint. The exhibit consists of "1995 minutes from the corporate kit of a meeting of the Board of Directors, which clearly and unequivocably say that Novell was to retain the UNIX copyrights in the sale to Santa Cruz that year."
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I know this kind of thing isn't popular around here, but I'm sorry to say that SCO will likely pull its own pair of aces out soon to prove that it does own the UNIX copyrights, and that IBM did illegally put code covered under the UNIX agreements, not subject to the special IBM amendments, into Linux.
I know some lawyers quite familiar with the case, not close to SCO at all. Although they won't say anything publicly lest they get harassed and see their companies' sites knocked offline by open source zealots, they've told me that some of the sealed exhibits deal specifically with code that SCO can prove could only have come from the Dynix code. They also say that SCO will soon reveal a document, signed by Novell executives at the time of the UNIX purchase, flatly stating that SCO ultimately controls the copyrights. Furthermore, they say that IBM's interpretations of the various agreements and the USL-BSD case are flawed, and IBM's lawyers may have misrepresented at least one major piece of evidence they have submitted to the court. One of SCO's sealed exhibits proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and IBM is simply using its legal weight to hold things under the radar until it can come up with some kind of monetary agreement with SCO. Chances are, this will mean that SCO deserves royalties for every copy of the kernel source that includes the code it owns. The age of free Linux is about to end thanks to IBM, which will pay a relative pittance and sell out everyone in the Open Source movement for its own duplicity. Sorry folks, but you may have to pay for the right to run Linux from now on, eliminating another argument for moving away from MS, Solaris, Apple, and other market-based vendors.
And before you say "I'll just move to BSD"... let's just say that agreement is going to be looked at closely afterward. Very closely.
Flamebait? Man, you yanks need to lighten up.
Part of the beauty of Open Source... is getting ripped off by big companies like Novell, IBM and how they are all named. It's exactly people like you who Novell count on - stupid sucks who work their ass off for nothing. Community, hype, friendship, help each other.... Grow up.....
Give it a rest! At least Bill Gates didn't have the ego to name an OS after himself like Linus did!
Will They Buy this Bullshit?
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It's the same in the business world. Everyone knows by now all businessmen are completely full of shit; the worst kind of lowlife, criminal cocksuckers you can expect to meet. And the proof is, they don't even trust each other!
When a businessman sits down to negotiate with another businessman, the first thing he does is assume the other guy is a complete lying prick who's trying to fuck him out of his money. So he does everything he can to fuck the other guy a little bit faster and a little bit harder. And he does it with a big smile on his face. That big, bullshit businessman's smile.
And if you're a customer, that's when they give you the really big smile!
The customer always gets that really big smile as the businessman carefully positions himself directly behind the customer, unzips his pants, and proceeds to "service" the account.
"I'm servicing this account...
[pelvic thrust!]
"This customer..."
[thrust]...
"needs"
[thrust!]
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[thrust, thrust, thrust!]
Now you know what they mean when they say, "We specialize in customer
service." Whoever first said, "Let the buyer beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole. But that's business. That's business, and business is okay.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
I'd start with q, x, c, and z. You probably don't have enough dexterity in your left hand and those are fairly useless letters. You could eliminate 4,5,6,7,8 and 9 because I'm sure you can't count higher than 3.
If only you could be trained enough to eventually comprehend the potential of vi...but we'd probably have better luck with a drunken monkey than a foolish emacs lover like yourself.
vi vs emacs flamewars are sweet.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.