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SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX"
eldavojohn writes "Here's a short update on the Novell Vs. SCO case we've been following. Our good friend Darl McBride made some interesting comments in court yesterday. He stated (under oath): 'Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers... We have evidence System V is in Linux... When you go to the bookstore and look in the UNIX section, there's books on "How to Program UNIX" but when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist. Linux is a copy of UNIX, there is no difference [between them]." This flies directly in the face of what SCO found in extensive investigations in 2002 and contradicts what SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag had just finished testifying earlier that day (testimony that McBride did not hear)."
Oh goodie! So by analogy the term "Windows", which pedants at Microsoft narrowly define as a mere operating system, also includes VSTS, Office Ultimate, SQL Server, Biztalk Server, and all Microsoft's other products.
Having paid good money for my Windows license, I can therefore download all those other products free of charge! Whoopee.
Thank goodness for progressive linguists. It turns out that words *can* change reality.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
It's pretty obvious to anyone who wants to be honest with themselves. In the beginning Linux stole from Unix. Unix was awesome, Linux was just a hobby.
Now, Linux as shifted. It steals from Windows. Pretty much everything Linux does or can do was done by Unix or for modern stuff, Windows before it.
Linux users are just software pirates!