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SCO Includes OS Products In OpenServer 6

Posted by Zonk on from the use-it-if-its-good dept.

William Robinson writes "In a bid to be friendly with Open Source, SCO has included 7 OS products in their Unix product. Among the included packages are MySQL, PostgreSQL, Samba, Apache, Tomcat, and FireFox. SCO's position is consistent, spokesman Blake Stowell argued. 'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't' he said."

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  1. Of course they're consistent by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    SCO's position is consistent, spokesman Blake Stowell argued. "We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't,"

    From Groklaw:
    In their Sixth Affirmative Defense, they say:

    "The General Public License ('GPL') is unenforceable, void and/or voidable, and IBM's claims based thereon, or related thereto, are barred."

    The Seventh Affirmative Defense adds:

    "The GPL is selectively enforced by the Free Software Foundation such that enforcement of the GPL by IBM or others is waived, estopped[sic] or otherwise barred as a matter of equity."

    The Eighth adds:

    "The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM's claims based thereon, or related thereto, are barred."


    So, yes. Their position on the GPL is completely consistant. i.e. The GPL is invalid, therefore they can take and redistribute all the software they want without any reprocussions from copyright law. They're wrong, but at least they're consistent. (In a twisted, "believe what I want you to believe," sort of way.) ;-)

    P.S. Shouldn't this be under YRO or general articles instead of Apache?
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  2. Really... by ch0p · · Score: 5, Funny

    "In a bid to be friendly with Open Source, SCO..." Just stop reading there.

  3. "friendly" by bedroll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using OSS isn't being friendly to it. It's just using it to enhance your product.

  4. Does that mean by joeflies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that they've checked those projects for infriging intellectual property too and certify it's clean?