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Re: [SLE] What's going one here: SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?
- From: Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:55:26 +0000
- Message-id: <4051B33E.60009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
An ex-employee of Autozone has said that they have not used any SCO libraries in Linux. Also someone in the SEC says they are investigating the MS-SCO funding issue after many complaints by phone and on their website.
The SCO management believes anything they say is the law and the law is anything they say. They say they have not put any code into Linux, but the judge has asked them to say just what code they have put into Linux, Caldera (SCO) employees contributed code with the knowledge of their managers and Caldera (SCO) made many statements on contributions to Linux code. They told the Judge that HP doesn't contribute code to Linux, IBM showed the evidence that that statement was false.
Then there is the leaked (by a SCO employee) email from their funding Consultants that refers to funding from MS and further talks to seek funding from other parts of MS, "genuine email, but a misunderstanding by the consultant", says SCO.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
Linux Only Shop.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----I agree people have a right to their copyrights, even the GPL acknowledges that, but SCO is making bogus claims. SCO has dropped their Copyright claims against IBM. There is evidence that AT&T, Novell and Caldera (SCO) placed many things into the public domain and that AT&T made it abundantly clear that they laid no claim to code developed by licensees, only to the code they licensed, for a good all round article that squares with what I've read and followed throughout this nonsense, see http://east.perens.com/SCO/March2004.html.
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On Friday 12 March 2004 04:29 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
There was once a Unix company that seems to have had nice people in it
known as the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO).
I used to build boxes with SCO Unix installed for NASA a few jobs back.
'Intellectual property' means
owning ideas - it's a direct insult to all natural justice and all natural
human evolution and is a clever mechanism to keep the rich rich and the
poor poor. It is in itself a scam. It makes money only for lawyers and a
few speculators - if it genuinely protected inventors we might sympathise a
bit more.
I have to say I can't fully agree with you here. People do have a right to keep their copyrights, etc. There are some real challenges for the computing industry in this area, and software pattens are something I have a mixed opinion on.
An ex-employee of Autozone has said that they have not used any SCO libraries in Linux. Also someone in the SEC says they are investigating the MS-SCO funding issue after many complaints by phone and on their website.
The SCO management believes anything they say is the law and the law is anything they say. They say they have not put any code into Linux, but the judge has asked them to say just what code they have put into Linux, Caldera (SCO) employees contributed code with the knowledge of their managers and Caldera (SCO) made many statements on contributions to Linux code. They told the Judge that HP doesn't contribute code to Linux, IBM showed the evidence that that statement was false.
Then there is the leaked (by a SCO employee) email from their funding Consultants that refers to funding from MS and further talks to seek funding from other parts of MS, "genuine email, but a misunderstanding by the consultant", says SCO.
Regards
Sid.
--
Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
Linux Only Shop.
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