I couldnt agree more with your comments. I'm a proponent of GPL as well, but what has occurred here is theft of the highest order. I'm actually pretty uncomfortable with people making jokes about this.
I think some people on this thread are confused.
Some of you are joking about "liberating code". This isnt really that funny. This is not SCO "playing the stock market like a lottery", this is an honest company who has worked their ass off in a highly competitive market to produce a rare thing: a gaming engine and a game that moves the industry to the next level. They deserve to profit from their efforts.
IMHO, there is a place for public intellectual capital, there is a place for private intellectual capital. There is no place for theft: Be it Darl McBride, or the shithead script kiddies who pulled this off.
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I think some people on this thread are confused.
Some of you are joking about "liberating code". This isnt really that funny. This is not SCO "playing the stock market like a lottery", this is an honest company who has worked their ass off in a highly competitive market to produce a rare thing: a gaming engine and a game that moves the industry to the next level. They deserve to profit from their efforts.
IMHO, there is a place for public intellectual capital, there is a place for private intellectual capital. There is no place for theft: Be it Darl McBride, or the shithead script kiddies who pulled this off.
Netcraft search reveals: The site www.sco.com is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux. =)
When I think of pathetic portrayals of programmers, Hugh Jackman in Swordfish is what comes to mind. Who of you, when programming, drinks red wine?