but it doesn't contradict the Christion one either. Actually, Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden because they ate the forbidden fruit of knowledge (I don't remember the exact lines, but God's point was that they should leave before they eat from the fruit of immortality, thus becoming on par with God). With that knowledge, however, came a problem - aside of having to toil the ground and throwing good parties: that problem is CHOICE.
Sigh..
The problem is the Linux developers do want to do the responsible thing. Everyone - including Linus - was demanding the proof of IP violations, so they could replace the offending code, if there is any. SCO's reply was that stupid analogy with the gun and fingerprints: they won't tell us anything, for the 'evidence' would be removed. lol. Its right here on the 3rd CD of Mandrake. In fact, they have the evidence in their own linux version, shipping with kernel 2.4.19something.
Just to correct a bit of misinformation here: Kirk played in Star Trek, not in a Hollywood-ized story. Spartacus is an online website selling S/M stuff (leather, chains, various gadgets): http://www.spartacusleathers.com/
Also, don't forget that the whole lawsuit began with a breach of contract allegiation. Of course, the original wording of the lawsuit was very unfavorable to linux developers (bycicle analogy, ay?) but it was only in the past few weeks that the whole issue escalated to what it is today. In fact in April, they 'cleared' the linux kernel. To make such a move, SCO had to commit the final mistake: they had to make announcments that leaved no doubt about their intentions about linux. The latter was one among such announcments, but most of these announments were made in the past few weeks. Considering that, Novell was not that slow after all.
haha... so price and freedom (!) would not justify the move, unless they are anti-american. It is somewhat puzzling to see that while 'freedom' is always compulsory in official US rhetorics, when it comes to others placing a value on freedom, it is discarded as irrelevant, no cause enough for a switch..
The "who" might be IBM. According to an article on The Inquirer, he might be employed by IBM: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9536
I also think that this might be the fastest way to win the case. Even while SCO's claims are ridiculous, they can pile up thousands of lines of code they would consider 'stolen' - answering those allegiations one by one can lead to a possibly endless debate (especially with their 'obsfucating to make it look like it wasn't stolen' line argument). What ESR does is to cut the roots of the problem.
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but it doesn't contradict the Christion one either. Actually, Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden because they ate the forbidden fruit of knowledge (I don't remember the exact lines, but God's point was that they should leave before they eat from the fruit of immortality, thus becoming on par with God). With that knowledge, however, came a problem - aside of having to toil the ground and throwing good parties: that problem is CHOICE.
"The Real World is hard, dirty, and uncomfortable." But they certainly know how to throw a good party!!! That scene after Morpheus speech... :)))
Sigh.. The problem is the Linux developers do want to do the responsible thing. Everyone - including Linus - was demanding the proof of IP violations, so they could replace the offending code, if there is any. SCO's reply was that stupid analogy with the gun and fingerprints: they won't tell us anything, for the 'evidence' would be removed. lol. Its right here on the 3rd CD of Mandrake. In fact, they have the evidence in their own linux version, shipping with kernel 2.4.19something.
what boat? :)
was that an allusion to Dune or Poe?
Just to correct a bit of misinformation here: Kirk played in Star Trek, not in a Hollywood-ized story. Spartacus is an online website selling S/M stuff (leather, chains, various gadgets): http://www.spartacusleathers.com/
Also, don't forget that the whole lawsuit began with a breach of contract allegiation. Of course, the original wording of the lawsuit was very unfavorable to linux developers (bycicle analogy, ay?) but it was only in the past few weeks that the whole issue escalated to what it is today. In fact in April, they 'cleared' the linux kernel. To make such a move, SCO had to commit the final mistake: they had to make announcments that leaved no doubt about their intentions about linux. The latter was one among such announcments, but most of these announments were made in the past few weeks. Considering that, Novell was not that slow after all.
haha ... so price and freedom (!) would not justify the move, unless they are anti-american. It is somewhat puzzling to see that while 'freedom' is always compulsory in official US rhetorics, when it comes to others placing a value on freedom, it is discarded as irrelevant, no cause enough for a switch..
The "who" might be IBM. According to an article on The Inquirer, he might be employed by IBM:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9536
I also think that this might be the fastest way to win the case. Even while SCO's claims are ridiculous, they can pile up thousands of lines of code they would consider 'stolen' - answering those allegiations one by one can lead to a possibly endless debate (especially with their 'obsfucating to make it look like it wasn't stolen' line argument). What ESR does is to cut the roots of the problem.