Re:Darl does NOT deserve ANY respect.
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"That depends on what 'is' means."
That little bit of language almost got Clinton disbarred and his bar card was pulled for 2 years as a penalty. The law may be messed up to a degree, but it works after a fashion, at least enough to let society build the most powerful economy in the world. It must not be all bad.
We need a gag order on SCO!
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They shouldn't be able to talk about this case. They should be barred from making any claims against end users too until this is settled.
Horse poop isn't that bad.
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Pig shit stinks more, the stench sticks to your skin - truly nasty! Perhaps you may want to consider 'liquified' manure as well. This can be brought next to their building and be pumped in through any opening at high pressure. The poultry shit is truly nasty, with a high enough ammonia content to make your eyes water. Horse and cow shit are not that bad and don't stink long, go for the nasty stuff, pig, poultry and dog shit. properly applied, some of this shit can actually kill a man.
Not only that, this indicates that they were fully aware of the develpments at the time and had to be fully acquainted with the technical details of the code (you can't make significant contributions if you don't know the general architecture and makeup of a program). THEY HAD TO KNOW, even if the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.
I feel no remose for the kid punces the 800lb gorilla in the face, and then claims to be the victm when he gets his ass kicked.
Gorillas are friendly creatures and are not mean, stop stereotyping gorillas, end gorilla discrimination NOW! IBM is no gorilla, they are more like a pack of hyenas.
All of this evidence is nice, but it still doesn't fully absolve IBM of a contract dispute, which SCO may have enough room to get a small victory. With all of the morons out there (as evidenced by the rise in SCOX), they will take that small victory to mean that SCO has overcome the GPL and owns Linux, they will believe the FUD. Wall Street will pony up more legal cash. The water will get muddy. And who knows what will happen. SCO is like Saddam, until he is dead or captured, he is still a threat.
If you were a cannibal, would you eat Darl McBrides brains?
You really need to take charge of your own military to help save us people here in the US. We could invade ourselves at any time and need protection from ourselves.
I know, this post has trollesque qualities, but don't hold it against me.
I read something off of the Space Command web site (which is now scrubbed) that the goal of the US in space is to dominate not just enemies, but to push out allies, Europeans included. They also planned to send weapons into space, even nuclear ones if there was a 'policy change'. Makes you wonder why the Chinese sent a man into space doesn't it? I think its a signal that they can make an ICBM, I can't think of any other reason why they need to send a man into space. I love evil plans like this. It warms my heart.
You are wrong, it is a fact that SCO has a cavalier attitude toward copyright law. It isn't a scientific fact, but it is still truly factual. Not all facts are scientific. SCO has been recklessly abusing the legal system, I don't see anything unfactual about that. This is in a context where SCO puts a legal paradox in front of a judge, and are just about certain to lose because they both use and deny themselves use of the GPL; that proposition seems to be as factual as it is contradictory. They even claim the GPL is against the US constitution! That is ludicrously true and a fact. It seems very truthful and factual to say that SCO is acting outside the norms of accepted behavior and making arguments which don't make logical sense in addition to trampling on the rights of the open source community and damaging their copyrighted holdings in Linux, AKA they are being 'cavalier'. Facts are not necessarily truths, but the truth is a fact. DEAL WITH IT BUCKO! This is whoop ass factuality!
And these Black Talon, expanding 9mm slugs could be used to shoot burglars, but unfortunately, they could also be used on cops or anyone else, and that is why they are outlawed. Potential misuse is an issue with any product, if that misuse endangers a community, perhaps it needs to be sanctioned. Unregulated use of University bandwidth is a huge cost. A few excessive students suck up 90% of the bandwidth. Why should the rest of the students pay for that 1% who go crazy with the P2P. This is what probably started this issue, and the fact that the activity was illegal only served to further the cause. Your personal freedom comes at the expense of the broader community when it comes to P2P at a University.
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I think this all needs to be put in perspective. WHEN I was a kid, we didn't have P2P, all we had was an Apple II and before that, paper and pencil. I remember when calculators were too expensive for the average person to buy cheaply and ran on large batteries. There was a time in my life when all of the computing power in the whole world was equivalent to what now exists within a single top tier supercomputer. That society, the pre-digital society founded and built America.
By letting the machine control the medium of life, you allow the machine to dictate the terms upon which your life plays out. If you define yourself by your software, I would say you are a social and intellectual cripple. The social fabric, and freedoms and liberty around you may crumble, but you are blind to this injustice because your existence is filtered and packaged around a logical sequence of events that only make sense within your computer dominated mindset. Incompatible life experience cannot be inserted into your world without being hacked into a compatible form and its richness, complexity and paradoxical pleasures are stripped away. You cannot truly understand or put in perspective, the events that happen around you because you are controlled by the medium. Although you will express outrage at a percieved injustice, you will never understand the how or the why of that injustice because you are blinded by your limitations. In the end you will be a slave to your own bias and constrictive lack of options. You will live in your own little world, autonomously free to do as you please within the confines of your little box. The price of freedom and liberty is much more than arguing P2P, it is knowing when to stand up and fight for your rights, and having the courage to step forward when the time comes.
Why commit puny crimes when you can commit enormous crimes, Enron scale crimes, and walk away scott free with $billions. The point is to screw the system before it screws you.
The one lesson I have learned in my life is you can never have enough.
The reason Daedelus made his wings was to escape King Minos. He knew the risks and explained them to his son very clearly. He made wings for his son so that they could escape to freedom together, knowing the dangers ahead and the desparate situation if they remained behind. As they took off Icarus, Daedelus's son, was happy to be free and was enjoying his wings and flew a bit too close to the sun and the wax that held them in place melted and he fell to his death, in spite of his fathers warnings. The vehicle of his freedom cost him his life. The price of freedom for Daedelus was the life of his son, but he was free, and his son died free. The moral of the story is that freedom has risks and must be taken seriously and that life under tyranny isn't a life at all. Freedom can lead to self destruction, but freedom is preferable to tyranny no matter what the cost and no matter what the risk.
Ironically, the ICARUS system is all about imprisoning youth, shutting down college kids from the world and controlling them. They will never be offered the opportunity to be free. If the ICARUS system were to trully follow its Greek Mythology metaphor, it would be more aptly named the MINOS system, as it is a system of control, not a tool for liberation. It would be better to trust the college students, let them fly, and if they go too close to the RIAA sun, they will get burned, but it should be thier choice. Choice, good or bad, is an essential element of liberty. Liberty should not be restricted over something as trivial as music sharing.
I am bored out of my skull so I will take the time to analyze your post a bit. With a bit of reflection and logical adaptation anyone can turn what you have said on its head. BAsically, I think "you are a flake who doesn't know what the hell you are talking about", but allow me to explain myself before you rush to a perjorative judgement and label me a flamer or troll bait.
First let us look at your first proposition. "Love is Knowledge is Light. Where knowledge leads to an understanding of love and in doing so 'illuminates', and therefore all three are derivitive of each other. Your first flaw is the idea that 'knowledge' will bring and understanding of love as a tangible entity. This is not necessarily true and is unlikely to be true if it precedes an act of love. Love is an experienced phenomenon. For someone who has never 'loved', telling them what it is will not give them knowledge of what love is. There is no accurate measurement or description of love. The only way to understand love is to be in love. Therefore, one can conclude that love, if it is equivalent to knowledge, is only equivalent to knowledge in the sense that a person has experience and understands because they have loved. It would be innacurate to say that knowledge is love, because a person can be very knowledgeable and informed about the trappings of love and be ignorant when it comes to love itself (men and women, need I say more?). And lastly, the idea, that love/knowlege is light, is innacurate. Knowledge of love is perhaps 'light' in a metaphorical sense, where the idea of love is 'illuminated', but it does not entail physical light as comes from the sun or a light bulb. When you then go on to the "Light side versus Dark side" bit I am simply lost, I see no link between the process of illumination brought on by love and a 'light' and 'dark' struggle which implies a moral or ideological conflict. The link simply isn't there.
The Universe as we experience it is entirely constructed of metaphor. --That is, all matter is energy,
The universe is a place where matter and energy can be converted into either state and then back again. You seem to say that matter 'is' energy, i.e. I can turn this log into energy, and therefore this log is energy. That would be incorrect, the log is not energy. Once it is coverted to an energy form, the 'log' would cease to be. Its physical pattern would be lost and it would be impossible to reconstitute it. Therefore, it is innacurate to say that the one or another phase, material or energy, is equal or analagous to the other. It is like saying a log is fire. To be accurate, you need to say that this bit of matter is 'potentially' energy, or this bit of energy is 'potentially' matter. Matter and energy are not identical or interchangeable. It would be more accurate to describe them as opposites.
Further on you bring up an equally illogical point.
but what is generally not understood is that all energy is consciousness.
I don't understand how you make the leap there. If matter is derivitive of energy, and consciousness is constituted from matter and therefore constituted of energy that it must therefore follow that consciousness is energy. That would seem to be an unlikely conclusion. It would be more accurate to describe consciousness as a pattern embedded in a physical container, the human body. Once the pattern is destroyed, the consciousness is destroyed. If the person was turned into energy, the pattern embedded in that person would cease to Be. The person would cease to be conscious. Therefore, the 'light', embodied by a conversion of matter(the conscious person and their body) to energy(so called thought) and back to matter(the result of the so called thought), would actually entail the destruction of that person, the total anhihilation of that persons consciousness. It is unlikely that 'energy' thoughts of any kind could imply an energy matter phase shift of any kind without the destruction of that person. There
They are down a dime. That just means that the people in 'the know' unloaded a few shares. But the news will hit tommorrow, and the panic will strike. I bet they drop another dollar or more. The conversation will go like this:
Investment advisor: You remember that stock I told you about and you bought 100000 shares at $20 a share. Well you better sell now. It is about to tank.
Clueless Investor:What?
Investment advisor: It is time to devest yourself from SCO.
Well, at least the BSD snobs can stop saying, "Use BSD instead because SCO has no claim over that."
Lets not pick on the BSD people. Remember, they have the lord of darkness as their mascot. I am inclined to believe that since lawyers are all the servants of Satan, they will do BSD's bidding. As a matter of fact, I bet BSD owns Darl's soul, which brings up a potential conflict for Darl. Since BSD owns Darl's soul, can Darl sue them, and in what jurisdiction? I tend to believe that all of Darl's worldly goods, ideas and actions are derivitive property of the soul, and therefore belong to BSD. I would bet that BSD would be able to excercise the HELL AND ETERNAL DAMNATION clause of Darl's contract with the Father of Lies if he were to violate any provisions.
A word of warning Darl! FOR WHOM THE BELL TROLLS...IT TROLLS FOR YOU!
Linux isn't sold, it is distributed, they can't charge a fee unless they violate the GPL, if they violate the GPL no one has any rights to distribute Linux under DMCA jusrisdiction. This is a scorched earth solution but it will stop SCO from charging perpetual fees.
But this assumes SCO has rights. They haven't shown a damn thing to anyone and are claiming the moon. IANAL but if tainted code was included, SCO MUST SPECIFY THAT CODE. SCO must also specify how they own that code, and what rights they have to that code. They must also show that they are not trying to charge for things which are in the public domain. If they refuse to allow Linux users to mitigate damages, they give up certain rights, like the right to collect damages beyond a minimized amount. They also can't sue IBM for including infringing code, collect damages, and then turn around and sue the end user for the same code and collect again. They also cannot collect in perpetuity. They can get a large cash payout and an injunction barring use of his code, they cannot get an injunction giving them rights to Linux.
Lets get down to the real point of what Darl is doing. He is mistaking a mountain (Linux) for a molehill (SCO UNIX) and then suing anyone who looks at the mountain. Any reasonable judge would bar SCO from pursuing further claims until this one is settled, because it answers all of the big issues that SCO is claiming. If SCO wins, they would be free to go ape shit on Linux, but in the mean time Linux should be able to do business.
The most sinister attack, if it succeeded would be am attack on BSD, which they are planning. I doubt they could make anything stick though, since AT&T signed a voluntary settlement.
I wouldn't recommend a Gateway either...we have an old server with NT on it. Why upgrade that box, put it in a closet, then throw it away! It runs OK, but wacky stuff always breaks, always has been a rough ride. I don't like Gateway products, my last 2 work PC's were Gateway...bad. Gateway was doomed the day they moved operations to San Diego from South Dakota. Also their commercials suck, and the cow is a horrible idea for a computer. Cows are stupid grass eaters with very little personality. I much prefer steak to an actual cow. You ever see a cow puke while it is chewing its cud? It is green and stinks like shit. They rechew that crap 4 times...disgusting. I don't like cows. They should have picked something fast and nimble, like a rabbit, gazelle or a cheetah. Or maybe something with fangs to protect your data like a leapard that eats cows. They had to pick a cow... Basically, they suck, and suck hard. Let me repeat that...they SUCK! SUCK!
I am sick and tired of gorillas being accused of being evil thuggish creatures. Gorillas are friendly and do not attack humans. Don't liken the friendly gorillas to a pack of bloodthirsty IBM lawyers.
The availability of the copy presumes guilt and harm to the owner of the copyright. You are no longer innocent until proven guilty. The crime is presumed by the evidence, not the other way around. It seems unreasonable to convict someone of a crime when it cannot be established a crime occured, only that there is evidence of what is presumably a crime. I would say this is unconstitutional by depriving people of due process and also making civil crimes a criminal offense with a lower threshhold of guilt. I would also say it is cruel and unusual to imprison someone over a stupid movie.
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"That depends on what 'is' means."
That little bit of language almost got Clinton disbarred and his bar card was pulled for 2 years as a penalty. The law may be messed up to a degree, but it works after a fashion, at least enough to let society build the most powerful economy in the world. It must not be all bad.
They shouldn't be able to talk about this case. They should be barred from making any claims against end users too until this is settled.
Pig shit stinks more, the stench sticks to your skin - truly nasty! Perhaps you may want to consider 'liquified' manure as well. This can be brought next to their building and be pumped in through any opening at high pressure. The poultry shit is truly nasty, with a high enough ammonia content to make your eyes water. Horse and cow shit are not that bad and don't stink long, go for the nasty stuff, pig, poultry and dog shit. properly applied, some of this shit can actually kill a man.
Not only that, this indicates that they were fully aware of the develpments at the time and had to be fully acquainted with the technical details of the code (you can't make significant contributions if you don't know the general architecture and makeup of a program). THEY HAD TO KNOW, even if the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.
I feel no remose for the kid punces the 800lb gorilla in the face, and then claims to be the victm when he gets his ass kicked.
Gorillas are friendly creatures and are not mean, stop stereotyping gorillas, end gorilla discrimination NOW! IBM is no gorilla, they are more like a pack of hyenas.
Louis XIV(14) was known as the Sun King for his extreme power and unchallenged rule. Louis XVI(16) was beheaded by a mob.
All of this evidence is nice, but it still doesn't fully absolve IBM of a contract dispute, which SCO may have enough room to get a small victory. With all of the morons out there (as evidenced by the rise in SCOX), they will take that small victory to mean that SCO has overcome the GPL and owns Linux, they will believe the FUD. Wall Street will pony up more legal cash. The water will get muddy. And who knows what will happen. SCO is like Saddam, until he is dead or captured, he is still a threat.
If you were a cannibal, would you eat Darl McBrides brains?
I'm surprised damage isn't being traded in the futures markets
Damage is being traded, SCO is being traded.
You really need to take charge of your own military to help save us people here in the US. We could invade ourselves at any time and need protection from ourselves.
I know, this post has trollesque qualities, but don't hold it against me.
I read something off of the Space Command web site (which is now scrubbed) that the goal of the US in space is to dominate not just enemies, but to push out allies, Europeans included. They also planned to send weapons into space, even nuclear ones if there was a 'policy change'. Makes you wonder why the Chinese sent a man into space doesn't it? I think its a signal that they can make an ICBM, I can't think of any other reason why they need to send a man into space. I love evil plans like this. It warms my heart.
You are wrong, it is a fact that SCO has a cavalier attitude toward copyright law. It isn't a scientific fact, but it is still truly factual. Not all facts are scientific. SCO has been recklessly abusing the legal system, I don't see anything unfactual about that. This is in a context where SCO puts a legal paradox in front of a judge, and are just about certain to lose because they both use and deny themselves use of the GPL; that proposition seems to be as factual as it is contradictory. They even claim the GPL is against the US constitution! That is ludicrously true and a fact. It seems very truthful and factual to say that SCO is acting outside the norms of accepted behavior and making arguments which don't make logical sense in addition to trampling on the rights of the open source community and damaging their copyrighted holdings in Linux, AKA they are being 'cavalier'. Facts are not necessarily truths, but the truth is a fact. DEAL WITH IT BUCKO! This is whoop ass factuality!
Did you sell your soul to the devil yet?
And these Black Talon, expanding 9mm slugs could be used to shoot burglars, but unfortunately, they could also be used on cops or anyone else, and that is why they are outlawed. Potential misuse is an issue with any product, if that misuse endangers a community, perhaps it needs to be sanctioned. Unregulated use of University bandwidth is a huge cost. A few excessive students suck up 90% of the bandwidth. Why should the rest of the students pay for that 1% who go crazy with the P2P. This is what probably started this issue, and the fact that the activity was illegal only served to further the cause. Your personal freedom comes at the expense of the broader community when it comes to P2P at a University.
(rant)
I think this all needs to be put in perspective. WHEN I was a kid, we didn't have P2P, all we had was an Apple II and before that, paper and pencil. I remember when calculators were too expensive for the average person to buy cheaply and ran on large batteries. There was a time in my life when all of the computing power in the whole world was equivalent to what now exists within a single top tier supercomputer. That society, the pre-digital society founded and built America.
By letting the machine control the medium of life, you allow the machine to dictate the terms upon which your life plays out. If you define yourself by your software, I would say you are a social and intellectual cripple. The social fabric, and freedoms and liberty around you may crumble, but you are blind to this injustice because your existence is filtered and packaged around a logical sequence of events that only make sense within your computer dominated mindset. Incompatible life experience cannot be inserted into your world without being hacked into a compatible form and its richness, complexity and paradoxical pleasures are stripped away. You cannot truly understand or put in perspective, the events that happen around you because you are controlled by the medium. Although you will express outrage at a percieved injustice, you will never understand the how or the why of that injustice because you are blinded by your limitations. In the end you will be a slave to your own bias and constrictive lack of options. You will live in your own little world, autonomously free to do as you please within the confines of your little box. The price of freedom and liberty is much more than arguing P2P, it is knowing when to stand up and fight for your rights, and having the courage to step forward when the time comes.
(/end rant )
Why commit puny crimes when you can commit enormous crimes, Enron scale crimes, and walk away scott free with $billions. The point is to screw the system before it screws you.
The one lesson I have learned in my life is you can never have enough.
The reason Daedelus made his wings was to escape King Minos. He knew the risks and explained them to his son very clearly. He made wings for his son so that they could escape to freedom together, knowing the dangers ahead and the desparate situation if they remained behind. As they took off Icarus, Daedelus's son, was happy to be free and was enjoying his wings and flew a bit too close to the sun and the wax that held them in place melted and he fell to his death, in spite of his fathers warnings. The vehicle of his freedom cost him his life. The price of freedom for Daedelus was the life of his son, but he was free, and his son died free. The moral of the story is that freedom has risks and must be taken seriously and that life under tyranny isn't a life at all. Freedom can lead to self destruction, but freedom is preferable to tyranny no matter what the cost and no matter what the risk.
Ironically, the ICARUS system is all about imprisoning youth, shutting down college kids from the world and controlling them. They will never be offered the opportunity to be free. If the ICARUS system were to trully follow its Greek Mythology metaphor, it would be more aptly named the MINOS system, as it is a system of control, not a tool for liberation. It would be better to trust the college students, let them fly, and if they go too close to the RIAA sun, they will get burned, but it should be thier choice. Choice, good or bad, is an essential element of liberty. Liberty should not be restricted over something as trivial as music sharing.
I am bored out of my skull so I will take the time to analyze your post a bit. With a bit of reflection and logical adaptation anyone can turn what you have said on its head. BAsically, I think "you are a flake who doesn't know what the hell you are talking about", but allow me to explain myself before you rush to a perjorative judgement and label me a flamer or troll bait.
First let us look at your first proposition. "Love is Knowledge is Light. Where knowledge leads to an understanding of love and in doing so 'illuminates', and therefore all three are derivitive of each other. Your first flaw is the idea that 'knowledge' will bring and understanding of love as a tangible entity. This is not necessarily true and is unlikely to be true if it precedes an act of love. Love is an experienced phenomenon. For someone who has never 'loved', telling them what it is will not give them knowledge of what love is. There is no accurate measurement or description of love. The only way to understand love is to be in love. Therefore, one can conclude that love, if it is equivalent to knowledge, is only equivalent to knowledge in the sense that a person has experience and understands because they have loved. It would be innacurate to say that knowledge is love, because a person can be very knowledgeable and informed about the trappings of love and be ignorant when it comes to love itself (men and women, need I say more?). And lastly, the idea, that love/knowlege is light, is innacurate. Knowledge of love is perhaps 'light' in a metaphorical sense, where the idea of love is 'illuminated', but it does not entail physical light as comes from the sun or a light bulb. When you then go on to the "Light side versus Dark side" bit I am simply lost, I see no link between the process of illumination brought on by love and a 'light' and 'dark' struggle which implies a moral or ideological conflict. The link simply isn't there.
The Universe as we experience it is entirely constructed of metaphor. --That is, all matter is energy,
The universe is a place where matter and energy can be converted into either state and then back again. You seem to say that matter 'is' energy, i.e. I can turn this log into energy, and therefore this log is energy. That would be incorrect, the log is not energy. Once it is coverted to an energy form, the 'log' would cease to be. Its physical pattern would be lost and it would be impossible to reconstitute it. Therefore, it is innacurate to say that the one or another phase, material or energy, is equal or analagous to the other. It is like saying a log is fire. To be accurate, you need to say that this bit of matter is 'potentially' energy, or this bit of energy is 'potentially' matter. Matter and energy are not identical or interchangeable. It would be more accurate to describe them as opposites.
Further on you bring up an equally illogical point. but what is generally not understood is that all energy is consciousness.
I don't understand how you make the leap there. If matter is derivitive of energy, and consciousness is constituted from matter and therefore constituted of energy that it must therefore follow that consciousness is energy. That would seem to be an unlikely conclusion. It would be more accurate to describe consciousness as a pattern embedded in a physical container, the human body. Once the pattern is destroyed, the consciousness is destroyed. If the person was turned into energy, the pattern embedded in that person would cease to Be. The person would cease to be conscious. Therefore, the 'light', embodied by a conversion of matter(the conscious person and their body) to energy(so called thought) and back to matter(the result of the so called thought), would actually entail the destruction of that person, the total anhihilation of that persons consciousness. It is unlikely that 'energy' thoughts of any kind could imply an energy matter phase shift of any kind without the destruction of that person. There
They are down a dime. That just means that the people in 'the know' unloaded a few shares. But the news will hit tommorrow, and the panic will strike. I bet they drop another dollar or more. The conversation will go like this:
Investment advisor: You remember that stock I told you about and you bought 100000 shares at $20 a share. Well you better sell now. It is about to tank.
Clueless Investor:What?
Investment advisor: It is time to devest yourself from SCO.
Clueless Investor: But you told me....?
Investment Advisor: It is time to panic!
Clueless Investor: OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOD, Im ruined. (grabs cell phone...1 800 ATTORNEY)
Well, at least the BSD snobs can stop saying, "Use BSD instead because SCO has no claim over that."
Lets not pick on the BSD people. Remember, they have the lord of darkness as their mascot. I am inclined to believe that since lawyers are all the servants of Satan, they will do BSD's bidding. As a matter of fact, I bet BSD owns Darl's soul, which brings up a potential conflict for Darl. Since BSD owns Darl's soul, can Darl sue them, and in what jurisdiction? I tend to believe that all of Darl's worldly goods, ideas and actions are derivitive property of the soul, and therefore belong to BSD. I would bet that BSD would be able to excercise the HELL AND ETERNAL DAMNATION clause of Darl's contract with the Father of Lies if he were to violate any provisions.
A word of warning Darl! FOR WHOM THE BELL TROLLS...IT TROLLS FOR YOU!
"Like a fist full of sand, the harder they sqeeze, the more it slips through their fingers."
But I prefer Like dust in the wind
Linux isn't sold, it is distributed, they can't charge a fee unless they violate the GPL, if they violate the GPL no one has any rights to distribute Linux under DMCA jusrisdiction. This is a scorched earth solution but it will stop SCO from charging perpetual fees.
But this assumes SCO has rights. They haven't shown a damn thing to anyone and are claiming the moon. IANAL but if tainted code was included, SCO MUST SPECIFY THAT CODE. SCO must also specify how they own that code, and what rights they have to that code. They must also show that they are not trying to charge for things which are in the public domain. If they refuse to allow Linux users to mitigate damages, they give up certain rights, like the right to collect damages beyond a minimized amount. They also can't sue IBM for including infringing code, collect damages, and then turn around and sue the end user for the same code and collect again. They also cannot collect in perpetuity. They can get a large cash payout and an injunction barring use of his code, they cannot get an injunction giving them rights to Linux.
Lets get down to the real point of what Darl is doing. He is mistaking a mountain (Linux) for a molehill (SCO UNIX) and then suing anyone who looks at the mountain. Any reasonable judge would bar SCO from pursuing further claims until this one is settled, because it answers all of the big issues that SCO is claiming. If SCO wins, they would be free to go ape shit on Linux, but in the mean time Linux should be able to do business.
Hitler, Stalin... McBride, they all have something in common.
The most sinister attack, if it succeeded would be am attack on BSD, which they are planning. I doubt they could make anything stick though, since AT&T signed a voluntary settlement.
I wouldn't recommend a Gateway either...we have an old server with NT on it. Why upgrade that box, put it in a closet, then throw it away! It runs OK, but wacky stuff always breaks, always has been a rough ride. I don't like Gateway products, my last 2 work PC's were Gateway...bad. Gateway was doomed the day they moved operations to San Diego from South Dakota. Also their commercials suck, and the cow is a horrible idea for a computer. Cows are stupid grass eaters with very little personality. I much prefer steak to an actual cow. You ever see a cow puke while it is chewing its cud? It is green and stinks like shit. They rechew that crap 4 times...disgusting. I don't like cows. They should have picked something fast and nimble, like a rabbit, gazelle or a cheetah. Or maybe something with fangs to protect your data like a leapard that eats cows. They had to pick a cow... Basically, they suck, and suck hard. Let me repeat that...they SUCK! SUCK!
In the future computers should fix themselves.
I am sick and tired of gorillas being accused of being evil thuggish creatures. Gorillas are friendly and do not attack humans. Don't liken the friendly gorillas to a pack of bloodthirsty IBM lawyers.
The availability of the copy presumes guilt and harm to the owner of the copyright. You are no longer innocent until proven guilty. The crime is presumed by the evidence, not the other way around. It seems unreasonable to convict someone of a crime when it cannot be established a crime occured, only that there is evidence of what is presumably a crime. I would say this is unconstitutional by depriving people of due process and also making civil crimes a criminal offense with a lower threshhold of guilt. I would also say it is cruel and unusual to imprison someone over a stupid movie.