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haha i remember reading this last week ....
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Hello,
My concern would be whether or not either party - or another party - will try again to go after BSD. As far as I know, their last attempt to discredit the 1993 AT&T/BSD settlement failed - but being desperate now, who knows what tricks they'll try.
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At this piont, IMHO the last thing open source needs is another SCO!!
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Hello,
Quote:
Just off the top of my head: #include <stdio.h> int main() i = 1; return 0; I guess there isn't a program in the world that they don't own. No wonder the judge did find for them.
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iirc, didn't SCO not even own what they were shouting about Linux copying?
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If I were the attorney, I would request dismissal with prejudice, and for sanctions. |
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http://www.lemis.com/grog/sco.html#BSD
http://www.lemis.com/grog/SCO/code-comparison.html It's nonsense.
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I've always hated these stupid threats from big companies. FOSS has stood against a lot and will continue to do so.
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And that's just it- SCO wasn't a big company. They went down the slash-and-burn litigious path because they weren't bringing in the dough in other avenues, like actual products- if they had been, they might not have become the ugly cancer on the community they became. No matter, though, now that that cancer is likely in permanent remission.
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But this also goes back to how the code in your OS-of-choice is licensed. If it's consisting of binary blobs from commercial companies, full of NDA's and such, then you risk one day having another SCO-like situation rear it's ugly head. If you run something like OpenBSD (shameless plug, I know) then you pretty much avoid this risk altogether in the first place.
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