Two Can Play at THAT Game

[SAJChurchey]

MUAHAHAHAH!!!

GNU now has evidence from former SCO employees, that SCO illegally used Linux code w/out telling the open source community what they did.

GNU is accusing SCO of violating the GPL...the plot thickens.  This may be the "Shadow of a Doubt"  that IBM and the Linux community needs to put a dent in SCOs malicious claims

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp

[ June 10, 2003: Message edited by: SAJChurchey ]

[TheQuirk]

Do not lie! It is the code that has been stolen from SCO, put into Linux, and then taken back into SCO products!

They wouldn't be suing if they didn't have a reason! Oh wait...

[Calum]

i was hoping this would happen. Somebody else mentioned it might be code from a BSD type licence that both OSs had used. I hope the FSF has its facts straight though i'd hate to see it lose this one.

For the FSF to have its facts straight it would have to have seen the code in question, which potentially means being bound by SCO's pathetic non disclosure agreement until the case is finished.

[SAJChurchey]

This may enable GNU to have a case against SCO and possibly forcing them to show them the code.  They don't have to wait for the SCO v. IBM case to be over first.

They got the info from former employees, which is still enough info to investigate the claim.

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i was hoping this would happen. Somebody else mentioned it might be code from a BSD type licence that both OSs had used. I hope the FSF has its facts straight though i'd hate to see it lose this one.

For the FSF to have its facts straight it would have to have seen the code in question, which potentially means being bound by SCO's pathetic non disclosure agreement until the case is finished.

They can't enforce their agreement.

Quite a few people questioned its legality.

[Faust]

ROFLMAO!
Hell yeah!  SCO we "0wn2" you!
Muah ha ha ha!

(sorry but I'm finding this very funny.)

[SAJChurchey]

It is going to take a while for this case to be finished if new people keep coming out of the woodwork.  Apparently, there is another big hardware company in the U.S. that SCO is also targeting for leaking code, similar to what IBM allegedly did.  

This is going to be a long and drawn out legal battle, and hopefully, open source will not get a bad rap as being anti-capitalist and disrespecting of intellectual property, which is not what open source is about at all.

[hm_murdock]

some crackers should bust into SCO, while some paramilitary dudes bust physically into ther building simultaneously, steal the code, and release it for all to see.

poor SCO. poor, poor people. I really do pity people like that. people would get SCO UNIX whether or not someone took some code. it's not going to affect their business.

besides, they didn't develop the damn thing anyway. commercial UNIX is as much a distribution as Red Hat is. It's code that's existed for years. SCO has no real claims to the code. SCO UNIX is built from someone else's work, they paid a license, and then they slapped other third party work on it (like CDE). They've got as much claim as I do.

I think I'll get those crackers and script kiddies working right now, then when I check out their code for myself, I'll sue them for stealing my ideas of using a high-level programming language to write an OS.

THOSE DAMN BASTARDS I HOPE THEY ALL FUCKING DIE FOR STEALING MY IDEAS! MOTHERFUCKING AMERICAN CAPPIES. DIE YOU GODDAMN COCKSUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!