Go back to fortran programming. You are obviously much better at it than GPL speculation and slashdot trolling.
Hurrah, my first post to/., and what a warm welcome!
Why don't you add a license to your posts: "On reading the message, You agree to abstain from posting any comments to it and You agree fully with all my opinions on SCO, Micro$oft, C vs. Fortran, KDE vs. Gnome, the merits of green tea and the fact that the egg was there before the chicken. Provided You comply fully with this Grant of Rights and Obligations, S.M. will not consider flaming or suing You for reading his intellectual property."
Didn't former Caldera contribute anything to the Linux codebase (fs/binfmt_xout.c ?)? IANAL, but if they didn't transfer copyrights to the FSF, then there is actually SCO IP in Linux, notwithstanding the fact that it was released under the GPL. And in that case, they are clearly in violatian of the GPL!
corruption is relative: what is illegal and corrupt in one country might be perferctly legal in another one!
Think e.g. in that malicious Utah company that is claiming ownership to Linux code: in Germany they have been convicted already in June for illegal business practices (check out
http://lwn.net/Articles/47355/ ), while in the USA they keep anoying Linux users and companies with no end in sight;-)
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Hurrah, my first post to
Why don't you add a license to your posts: "On reading the message, You agree to abstain from posting any comments to it and You agree fully with all my opinions on SCO, Micro$oft, C vs. Fortran, KDE vs. Gnome, the merits of green tea and the fact that the egg was there before the chicken. Provided You comply fully with this Grant of Rights and Obligations, S.M. will not consider flaming or suing You for reading his intellectual property."
Didn't former Caldera contribute anything to the Linux codebase (fs/binfmt_xout.c ?)? IANAL, but if they didn't transfer copyrights to the FSF, then there is actually SCO IP in Linux, notwithstanding the fact that it was released under the GPL. And in that case, they are clearly in violatian of the GPL!
corruption is relative: what is illegal and corrupt in one country might be perferctly legal in another one! Think e.g. in that malicious Utah company that is claiming ownership to Linux code: in Germany they have been convicted already in June for illegal business practices (check out http://lwn.net/Articles/47355/ ), while in the USA they keep anoying Linux users and companies with no end in sight ;-)