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SCO Website Using Groklaw's Content
darkonc writes "It looks like they didn't learn from the
BSD debacle (where, having sued Berkley for copyright infringement, AT&T found that they were using BSD code without acknowledging it's source). Groklaw has an article detailing how SCO has documents created by and for Groklaw on their site -- without even acknowledging the source. It seems that the defenders of the holy IP principle have hoisted the skull and bones."
(where, having sued Berkley for copyright infringement, AT&T found that they were using BSD code without acknowledging it's source). It's BERKELEY!
Scanning a document does not give a copyright to the person who performs the scan. SCO has done nothing illegal by grabbing these document.
We rightfully excoriate MSFT and SCO when they make overreaching IP claims. We should be the last ones to make overreaching claims.
That said, the one thing which makes SCOX's claims look the worse is their own damn filings. By publishing them themselves, they aren't helping themselves in the public eye.
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Still, to steal from groklaw...
Copyright infringement is not theft. Not when you share music illegally. Not when you distribute GPLed software against its license terms. Not when you copy documents from a website on "our side".
No, thats just if you take someone else's IP and use it without license, without claiming it to be your own. Plagiarism is taking someone else's IP and claiming that it is yours.
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Well, before you break out the actors from your favorite CSI/Law & Order divisions, some researchers notice that suicides tend to cluster together, and are occassionally thought of as "contagious". That is, people who are close (family, friends, and business associates) have an increased risk of suicide when someone near them commits suicide as well.
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So unless you have some other information about those suicides that makes them look less coincidental, perhaps you should allow the dead to rest instead of furthering a tin-foil hat craze.
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
If I write a book titled "SCO[tm] Sucks Donkey Balls," that book is a copyrightable work. Assuming Congress keeps listening to Disney every 10-20 years (as the copyright on Steamboat Mickey is about to expire), copyright will last forever. I believe right now we're at life of the author plus 95 years. The point is that copyright can (theoretically) expire.
My book title uses a trademarked name, that is "SCO[tm]" That name is a trademark of some donkey-ball-sucking company in Lindon UT that thinks they own the mind of every programmer who ever wrote #include <stdio.h>. Trademarks last FOREVER, or until you don't bother to pursue violations.
-paul
Pistol caliber is like religion: everyone has their favourite, and theirs is the only right choice.
That's by Maureen O'Gara. You should never post anything by her as fact.
She often gets a lot of the facts wrong and in this case the only thing we know for certain is that there has been a death. Maureen is the only one calling it a suicide and everyone has reported that the Noorda family is not releasing any details.
It may be a suicide or it may not be and we won't know for certain until a real journalist supplies more information.
"I think SCO must be too buy looking over their mountain of discovery proceeds to add a simple attribution to their legal docs website." AFIK one of the court orders states that SCO may not look at any of the code IBM supplies, they need to hire an outside expert to do it.
SCO's financial backing literally took a bullet to the head
I literally don't think you know the meaning of literally
You don't have to cite nexis-lexis. That's silly. You don't have to cite the library either. You have to cite original work. If you cite an article that you found in the NYT, you don't have to say that you found it on nexis to "help other researchers corroborate your work." I'm sure that they are capable of finding an article in the NYT by themselves. Anyone who cites nexis-lexis (I guess excepting their own demographic research) is too dumb to be writing research papers.
Except that Groklaw isn't grasping at any straws. PJ isn't out to sue anyone over it. They are simply pointing out the news that after SCO has disparaged groklaw and made offensive comments about it, SCO used groklaw (amongst other sites) as the source for their legal information. I'm sorry if you're disappointed there's no real bloodlust (except in the commentary by people who are not lawyers and don't understand and aren't in a position to do something about it).
By all accounts Val Noorda Kreidel was no supporter of SCO or the Ralph Yarro cabal.
Please do some basic research before you post misleading information about such a terrible tragedy.
1-800-726-8649 is their sales number for SCO source. Perhaps that's the best place to ask.
See the second story here.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
SCO is simply a Bender and is fully entitled to do as it has done.
Forget a takedown notice as well. The documents are public domain and there are penalties (including legal fees) for filing a false DMCA takedown notice.
It's amusing, but that's all it is.
Do read the WIREdata (PDF) decision. It's an excellent and readable decision giving an overview of the principles and key cases involved.