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SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright
Raul654 writes "In March, the jury in the Novell/SCO case found that Novell owns the copyright to Unix. Now, SCO's lawyers have asked judge Ted Stewart to order Novell to turn over the Unix copyright to them. 'SCO contends the jury did not answer the specific issue before Stewart that involves a legal principle called "specific performance," under which a party can ask a court to order another party to fulfill an aspect of an agreement.'" Over at Groklaw, PJ is deep into a community project to annotate SCO's filing. It's for the benefit of future historians, but it makes amusing reading now.
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Uhhh...with a show called "The Guiding Light", wouldn't you figure maybe SONET/SDH instead?
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Punctuation, spelling both above average. No use of the Caps Lock key. 1/10
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Actually the tea partiers are pushing government to involve itself in social causes too, just different ones like regulating marriage. That's the Palin wing of the movement, the one that loves big government when it pushes religion and tries to turn arbitrary morals into arbitrary laws.
FTFY, unless you'd like to explain how laws aren't, at their cores, equally arbitrary as morals, or unless you'd like to explain that neither morals nor laws are arbitrary.
Laws are as arbitrary as the morals and agendas that are common to the subset of politicians required to pass legislation.
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
I'll miss Rush just a little more than I miss Ted Kennedy. I miss Ted about as much as I would miss a malignant brain tumor. Rush? Hmmm. Maybe as much as an impacted wisdom tooth. I mean, really, how in hell do you actually "miss" a douche bag? But, a quick google says Rush is not dead. Heart attack, maybe, and he's hospitalized. Dammit - we'll suffer with that toothache a while longer.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
The point is that these guys are so afraid of losing karma, or having someone put them on their "foes" list, that they won't post with their username. That's cowardly by any definition I've ever seen. Do you think they're called AC's for no reason. I'm just re-stating what the AC moniker says in the first place.
Sure, I could post with "a" real name, as many do here, but that doesn't always mean that it is "their" real name. And, yeah, some well-known guys like Bruce Perens post here as themselves, but that's because their name lends weight to their side of the issues they weigh in on. Nobody would know me from Adam, even if I posted with my real name, so posting using an alias deducts nothing from whatever impact I have I have to say might have.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
Laws usually have to follow the general principles of the constitution which in most cases guarantees freedom of religion, morals, etc., among other things. Fundamentalist religious morals do not follow these principles.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
LOL. Another anonymous coward calling me coward. Oooohhhhh. I'm intimidated. What's the matter? Can't risk your karma?
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
Oh, it was that kind of cock, I was trying to figure out how you can suck a male chicken :)
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
There are moral absolutes. One of them should be that each of us is free to choose our own destiny so long as our actions do not cause harm to those around us.
Gay people getting married doesn't harm you. You conservatives just don't like it. It doesn't fit into your view of how people should be. So don't come down here telling us the conservatives are here to protect "values" and "morals". They're pushing bibles, that's it. And even then, only when it's convenient.
You can't legislate goodness, let alone your own personal perception of goodness. If it doesn't harm you, you have no business telling others how they can live their life.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
You must have misread my comment in some way or misclicked the post you wanted to reply to. I'm very much in agreement with you.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Alright, I've got karma to burn...
You are stupid.
We elect people who raise taxes for social programs. You elect people who also raise taxes on us so they can lower them on the wealthy and powerful.
Maybe we're not electing people who serve our best interest... maybe we are. You're electing people who work exactly the fucking opposite of your best interests.
The fact that gay marriage is even in the debate is also moronic. If the sanctity of your marriage is threatened by Adam and Steve's marriage down the street, guess what? Your marriage was on the rocks anyway. If you really want to protect marriage, outlaw divorce.
If you actually want to be a libertarian, you're going to have to say so explicitly. Most conservatives think they're libertarians, but they clearly aren't. How many times over could we have funded a mission to mars, paid for our own healthcare, and dealt with some of our failing infrastructure, poverty, and other issues, with a fraction of the money we've spent on Iraq so far?
Oh, and finally: The TEA parties themselves? Completely promoted by Fox News, for their own blatantly biased political purposes. "Fair and balanced" my ass. If you participated in one of those, know that for the time you participated, you were a corporate tool, marching not for yourself, but for the benefit of a wealthy elite who will not hesitate to toss you aside when it suits them.
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Indeed a misclick. I thought I was replying to the post above.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
LOL. Who's so afraid of losing karma that they won't post using their handles here? Not me.
You lose, AC.
So, come on mods, mod me down. I'm taking an unpopular position so do the usual /. moderation tango and vote the unpopular position down. That's what's done here the vast majority of time. Curse, swear, and insult conservatives in a post here and you're normally modded as insightful on /.
Stand up for a conservative who got mad and fought back using the same language used against his position on an everyday basis before the jackasses were, in an unusual /. action, modded down and I'm a troll.
Then the AC's, who wouldn't publicly defend abusive behavior, because it is abusive behavior, but who privately endorse the abusive behavior attack me and mods of the same stripe pile on. Yeah, I'm quite the troll, if you endorse abusive behavior that is.
So, come on. Mod me down and show your real stripes. Prove who you are and what your side stands for. You do know the Nazis were Socialists don't you? So when you accuse conservatives as acting like Nazis you're only accusing them of acting like people of your own political persuasion. Like yourselves. You act like baby Nazis here on /. on a regular basis.
Compare WTO protestors in Seattle with Tea Party rallies. Who destroys property? Who fights with the cops? Who creates interruptions for everyone? Not the Tea Party people. It's the Socialists that do that. It's the Socialists who use violence. It's the Socialists who have used bigotry, violence, class warfare, and mass murder to gain power. Those are facts of history. We've fought world wars against Socialism because its so evil, and that's the agenda you guys choose to support.
I'm not trolling. I'm just no longer going to be quiet while I and my fellow citizens have our freedoms stolen by those practicing a deceptive agenda. It's my duty as an American with a sense of history, and a sense of justice, to speak up and I'll continue to do it. You can mod me to oblivion, but you can't shut me up. It's my right as an American to speak my mind, just like it is your right to speak yours. The difference between us is that I'll support your right to free speech, but you want to try to deny me mine.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
"arbitrary *religious* morals" - which follow no process of logic or rational thought.