Nah its got to be much less than that as there are quite a few who dont give a sh1t about the cricket and as far as I can tell the result is nothing new anyway.
However losing to your team at football was a national disaster, ok so it was only a friendly but still Australia........
During the recent interview with the DOJ attorneys they stated that
In regard to open source products, depending upon the facts, open source developers may seek to enforce their legal rights civilly, or, in cases where there has been willful infringement and certain criminal thresholds have been met, criminal prosecution may also be warranted. At this time, we are unaware of any referrals to law enforcement for open source license violations. As for reporting potential criminal infringement to law enforcement, the best way to do that is to contact your local FBI office.
This taken with the analysis of the situation here means that SCO are distributing software that they do not have rights to distribute. By normal definitions used by the software companies this is called PIRACY!!
So how much is this piracy worth. Lets take the man hours involved in creating the product as it stands and multiply it by the average cost of a developer. This will give us a per unit cost X. Then we need to multiply it by the number of people who have sourced the product from SCO and then also the number of people that they passed the code onto. Then we will have our damages figure and then we (not me I'm not a US citizen) should report the blatent crime to the FBI and let them persue it as they said they would ( as long as the damages are sufficient enough )
Additionally we should report this blatent piracy to software industry watchdogs such as the BSA and FAST
As the whole industry knows Piracy is a Bad Thing TM they should be keen to act.:)
I agree that software patents are the main cause of this problem. As you have already stated Microsoft have already won the look and feel contest and now it will probably work against it.
Thats why I am glad that I live in Europe where, at present software patents are not recognised . I emplore every other european slashdot reader to contact their representatives in their parliaments and the european parliaments to make sure that software and business method patents are not allowed with the european union.
My only worry is that the UK signed an agreement where by the US can ask for the extradition of any UK citizen without providing any proof of guilt. They could not make it bilatteral as it would be against the US constitution, but us "loyal subjects" have no such legal protection.
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Nah its got to be much less than that as there are quite a few who dont give a sh1t about the cricket and as far as I can tell the result is nothing new anyway. However losing to your team at football was a national disaster, ok so it was only a friendly but still Australia........
So how much is this piracy worth. Lets take the man hours involved in creating the product as it stands and multiply it by the average cost of a developer. This will give us a per unit cost X. Then we need to multiply it by the number of people who have sourced the product from SCO and then also the number of people that they passed the code onto. Then we will have our damages figure and then we (not me I'm not a US citizen) should report the blatent crime to the FBI and let them persue it as they said they would ( as long as the damages are sufficient enough )
Additionally we should report this blatent piracy to software industry watchdogs such as the BSA and FAST
As the whole industry knows Piracy is a Bad Thing TM they should be keen to act. :)
I agree that software patents are the main cause of this problem. As you have already stated Microsoft have already won the look and feel contest and now it will probably work against it. Thats why I am glad that I live in Europe where, at present software patents are not recognised . I emplore every other european slashdot reader to contact their representatives in their parliaments and the european parliaments to make sure that software and business method patents are not allowed with the european union. My only worry is that the UK signed an agreement where by the US can ask for the extradition of any UK citizen without providing any proof of guilt. They could not make it bilatteral as it would be against the US constitution, but us "loyal subjects" have no such legal protection.