If it sensed an attempt to jam GPS signals it would switch to other navigation aids such as airport beacons.
And if the terrorists jam both GPS signals and airport beacons? Once you kill outside input to the plane, the plane doesn't know where it is, and can't avoid softwalls.
Worse yet, what if some airplane mechanic is a terrorist, and adds a little trojan to every plane he services? All of a sudden, when a certain signal is detected by the trojan from the ground, the softwalls prevent the plane from flying anywhere except a direct route into the White House.
What if I buy the new Harry Potter book, decide I have too much work to read it, sell it to my roommate, and later find out that someone stole my code, slapped a GPL on it, and printed it in the middle of the book?
Have I just lost my intellectual property? Clearly I haven't - as SCO contends, you can't "accidentally" GPL your code. Couldn't I sue the people who stole it? Couldn't I be a nice friend and not sue the person I sold the book to?
Which brings up another point. Have you read a lease? I don't know if this is common, but mine says the landlord's failure to enforce the terms of the lease on any other tenant does not, in any way, limit his rights to enforce them with me. I'm pretty sure thats how it works in civil cases. I can arbitrarily bring up civil cases, and ignore other cases that I might win, for no good reason.
Of course, this isn't to say SCO has a good legal case. I have no idea if code was actually stolen or not. However, if code was stolen, its not as simple as "they aren't sueing X, which gives Y immunity".
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If it sensed an attempt to jam GPS signals it would switch to other navigation aids such as airport beacons.
And if the terrorists jam both GPS signals and airport beacons? Once you kill outside input to the plane, the plane doesn't know where it is, and can't avoid softwalls.
Worse yet, what if some airplane mechanic is a terrorist, and adds a little trojan to every plane he services? All of a sudden, when a certain signal is detected by the trojan from the ground, the softwalls prevent the plane from flying anywhere except a direct route into the White House.
What if I buy the new Harry Potter book, decide I have too much work to read it, sell it to my roommate, and later find out that someone stole my code, slapped a GPL on it, and printed it in the middle of the book? Have I just lost my intellectual property? Clearly I haven't - as SCO contends, you can't "accidentally" GPL your code. Couldn't I sue the people who stole it? Couldn't I be a nice friend and not sue the person I sold the book to? Which brings up another point. Have you read a lease? I don't know if this is common, but mine says the landlord's failure to enforce the terms of the lease on any other tenant does not, in any way, limit his rights to enforce them with me. I'm pretty sure thats how it works in civil cases. I can arbitrarily bring up civil cases, and ignore other cases that I might win, for no good reason. Of course, this isn't to say SCO has a good legal case. I have no idea if code was actually stolen or not. However, if code was stolen, its not as simple as "they aren't sueing X, which gives Y immunity".