I had a 1965 Dart with the slant 6, and drove it past 100k. Then I gave it to a friend for a wedding present and his wife was still driving it a few years later.
My mom, however, bought a 1967 Dart that never was quite as reliable. She traded it in after just a few years.
Now I have a Toyota and a Honda and have had zero trouble with either. OK, I had a flat tire on the Toyota, but that's it.
The notion that the SCO license to IBM violates the antitrust laws is not fanciful. Copyrights and patents are legal monopolies for a limited time; but attempting to extend their scope to works which are not legal monopolies is an antitrust violation. I have some problems visualizing IBM as an antitrust plaintiff, but so be it.
Patents protect ideas. Copyrights protect against copying. Using a copyright to protect an idea, rather than the expression of that idea, is not allowed. Except to the extent that SCO proves a copying of code protected by copyright, it does not have a legal monopoly.
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I had a 1965 Dart with the slant 6, and drove it past 100k. Then I gave it to a friend for a wedding present and his wife was still driving it a few years later. My mom, however, bought a 1967 Dart that never was quite as reliable. She traded it in after just a few years. Now I have a Toyota and a Honda and have had zero trouble with either. OK, I had a flat tire on the Toyota, but that's it.
Great. Now I can have many more hours and channels of TV I don't want to watch.
The notion that the SCO license to IBM violates the antitrust laws is not fanciful. Copyrights and patents are legal monopolies for a limited time; but attempting to extend their scope to works which are not legal monopolies is an antitrust violation. I have some problems visualizing IBM as an antitrust plaintiff, but so be it.
Patents protect ideas. Copyrights protect against copying. Using a copyright to protect an idea, rather than the expression of that idea, is not allowed. Except to the extent that SCO proves a copying of code protected by copyright, it does not have a legal monopoly.