Red Hat may win. That would prove that it is illegal to talk bad about your competetor. And then there is a legal precedent. The Microsoft can sue anyone who uses a dollar sign in place of an s when referring to them. Then/. is in trouble. No one can post anything bad about them.
In your rush to embrace the IBM stance that SCO does not own the code remember that NOTHING has been proven in a COURT OF LAW. If (and I emphasize the word IF) SCO is proven to own the code, then you would be liable as SCO claims. Please don't jump to any conclusions. Courts can be fickle, and if a good legal team can get someone like OJ off, then no one can know what will happen with SCO.
You have to use Samba on the Solaris or Linux systems for Windows boxes to access them. Or you could install the Services for Unix client on the Windows system and then it can access the NFS file system.
All of you are a bunch of HYPOCRITES!
SCO goes after IBM for putting their code into Linux = BAD!
InterTrust Technologies goes after Microsoft for the same thing = GOOD!
So it's not the subject matter, it's the OS that is being attacked. So let me see if I have this straight..... LINUX = GOOD. Microsoft = BAD.
That just makes you a bunch of bigoted, hypocritical, narrow minded... oh, just forget it. You are all so closed minded in your opinions about Linux and Microsoft that it doesn't make a difference what I say. If the bunch of you get any more fanatical you will be showing up in Redmond wearing a jacket made of semtex with primacord trim.
Direct quote:
"The real grown up thing to to is take McBride out with the rest of these SCO greed heads and just eliminate the scoundrels. Give up on going to court with these loosers. They are attempting to steal that which isn't theirs. We will get no fair play in court. They will buy all the justice they need and Linux will get none. Bastards like McBride his compatriots and his whoreson attorney Boies have sick and twisted minds.
All you pacifists need to wake up and get a grip on this shit. Violence does solve certain issues. These thieving fucks are a waste of human skin and need to be removed from the gene pool. They are a threat to civilization and the commonwheal. Death to the tryants. Let us get us some rope and proceed in community action!"
Think about this before you decide to do it. This will get you thrown in jail for a long time! Don't be stupid about this!
P.S. I love the comment about the "whoreson attorney Boies". He was the Golden Boy when he was prosecuting Microsoft, but now he's a "whoreson" when he works for SCO.
Why do most of the readers of slasdot see a Microsoft plot behind everything bad that happens to open source software? C-mon, you sound like the UFO crazies that blame the government for covering up the Roswell crash... Oh wait, the government has no power, everything is run by the trilateral comission.......;-)
I know that the moderators of this board are also Open Source advocates, so I am sure to get negative Karma for this.
The replys to this thread are absolutely hilarious. What you remind me of is Iran in 1979. The Islamic fundamentalists running around yelling "Death to America!", and they had (and still don't have) the ability to do anything about it. Everyone here is running around yelling "Death to Microsoft!" Thanks for the humor. Using the picture of Bill Gates as a borg just shows the maturity level of all the zealots here. To quote William Shatner.. "Get a Life!!!!"
The owner of a publishing company tries his hand a writing a book. He wants an opinion on how good it is, so he lets his best friend, the owner of a rival publishing company read the first 3 chapters of the book. His friend then takes and writes a book around the same story and characters in the manuscript. It becomes a best seller, and the original author of the 3 chapters never reads the book. His buddy comes to him one day and says "Hey, my publishing house is way to overloaded to handle the sales of this book. Can you print and resell them for me to meet the demand?" Being a friend (and wanting to make money off a good thing), he starts to print and sell the book. He finally sits down to read it, and finds out that his "friend" has plagerized all 3 chapters of his manuscript!
Even though he sold the book, he is still the owner of the Intellictual property rights to those 3 chapters, so he sues his buddy.
This is the same situation that SCO and IBM are in. SCO owns the code. IT doesn't matter how they got the ownership. What matters is that someone at IBM released the code to the Linux community without the permission of it's owner. The fact that that owner found this out AFTER they had released the code in there own version of Linux is irrevalent. They own the code, and they have the right to do with it as they please. If it was distributed without their permission, then the entities that distributed it are subject to prosecution.
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Red Hat may win. That would prove that it is illegal to talk bad about your competetor. And then there is a legal precedent. The Microsoft can sue anyone who uses a dollar sign in place of an s when referring to them. Then /. is in trouble. No one can post anything bad about them.
In your rush to embrace the IBM stance that SCO does not own the code remember that NOTHING has been proven in a COURT OF LAW. If (and I emphasize the word IF) SCO is proven to own the code, then you would be liable as SCO claims. Please don't jump to any conclusions. Courts can be fickle, and if a good legal team can get someone like OJ off, then no one can know what will happen with SCO.
You have to use Samba on the Solaris or Linux systems for Windows boxes to access them. Or you could install the Services for Unix client on the Windows system and then it can access the NFS file system.
All of you are a bunch of HYPOCRITES! SCO goes after IBM for putting their code into Linux = BAD! InterTrust Technologies goes after Microsoft for the same thing = GOOD! So it's not the subject matter, it's the OS that is being attacked. So let me see if I have this straight..... LINUX = GOOD. Microsoft = BAD. That just makes you a bunch of bigoted, hypocritical, narrow minded... oh, just forget it. You are all so closed minded in your opinions about Linux and Microsoft that it doesn't make a difference what I say. If the bunch of you get any more fanatical you will be showing up in Redmond wearing a jacket made of semtex with primacord trim.
Direct quote: "The real grown up thing to to is take McBride out with the rest of these SCO greed heads and just eliminate the scoundrels. Give up on going to court with these loosers. They are attempting to steal that which isn't theirs. We will get no fair play in court. They will buy all the justice they need and Linux will get none. Bastards like McBride his compatriots and his whoreson attorney Boies have sick and twisted minds. All you pacifists need to wake up and get a grip on this shit. Violence does solve certain issues. These thieving fucks are a waste of human skin and need to be removed from the gene pool. They are a threat to civilization and the commonwheal. Death to the tryants. Let us get us some rope and proceed in community action!" Think about this before you decide to do it. This will get you thrown in jail for a long time! Don't be stupid about this! P.S. I love the comment about the "whoreson attorney Boies". He was the Golden Boy when he was prosecuting Microsoft, but now he's a "whoreson" when he works for SCO.
Take a look a Windows 2003 Server. Everything is turned off by default. You have to install and enable what you want to use.
Why do most of the readers of slasdot see a Microsoft plot behind everything bad that happens to open source software? C-mon, you sound like the UFO crazies that blame the government for covering up the Roswell crash... Oh wait, the government has no power, everything is run by the trilateral comission....... ;-)
I know that the moderators of this board are also Open Source advocates, so I am sure to get negative Karma for this. The replys to this thread are absolutely hilarious. What you remind me of is Iran in 1979. The Islamic fundamentalists running around yelling "Death to America!", and they had (and still don't have) the ability to do anything about it. Everyone here is running around yelling "Death to Microsoft!" Thanks for the humor. Using the picture of Bill Gates as a borg just shows the maturity level of all the zealots here. To quote William Shatner.. "Get a Life!!!!"
The owner of a publishing company tries his hand a writing a book. He wants an opinion on how good it is, so he lets his best friend, the owner of a rival publishing company read the first 3 chapters of the book. His friend then takes and writes a book around the same story and characters in the manuscript. It becomes a best seller, and the original author of the 3 chapters never reads the book. His buddy comes to him one day and says "Hey, my publishing house is way to overloaded to handle the sales of this book. Can you print and resell them for me to meet the demand?" Being a friend (and wanting to make money off a good thing), he starts to print and sell the book. He finally sits down to read it, and finds out that his "friend" has plagerized all 3 chapters of his manuscript! Even though he sold the book, he is still the owner of the Intellictual property rights to those 3 chapters, so he sues his buddy. This is the same situation that SCO and IBM are in. SCO owns the code. IT doesn't matter how they got the ownership. What matters is that someone at IBM released the code to the Linux community without the permission of it's owner. The fact that that owner found this out AFTER they had released the code in there own version of Linux is irrevalent. They own the code, and they have the right to do with it as they please. If it was distributed without their permission, then the entities that distributed it are subject to prosecution.