We Reveal Major Unix IP Violations

[The Anti-Microsoft]

quote:This week The SCO Group hinted that BSD distributions would be next under the Utah microscope. SCO carefully safeguards the intellectual property rights to UNIX

[Enmity]

those shits HAVE to die.
first GPL, Linux and OSS.
NOW THEY'RE ON TO BSD?

fucking nuts.
fucking nuts i tell you

[hm_murdock]

um...

I believe that would fail, based on a concept in law known as ex post facto.

One cannot be charged with breaking a law prior to the law's existance. If you're seen walking down the street with a shirt on that says "PIRATES" and the next day they outlaw shirts that say "PIRATES"... you cannot be arrested for wearing the shirt the day before.

This concept carries to contracts and intellectual property, I believe. You cannot hold someone responsible for "violating your copyright" prior to your ownership of said copyright.

If AT&T were to reacquire UNIX code, they could levy charges... but I don't believe SCO has legal grounds.

Also, didn't AT&T actually TRY TO STOP THEM back in the 1980s and fail?

[M51DPS]

So they've decided to go into a legal case that they're doomed to fail, and then they start threatening to fail at something else. Just curious . . . WHAT THE HELL DO THOSE IDIOTS THINK THEY'RE DOING!!!

[mobrien_12]

Read the whole article guys, it gets interesting.    


Yes, SCO Group is starting to talk about BSD.  It's also true that Caldera released all the really old AT&T source code under a BSD-like licence years ago.  That's what the article is really about.

I don't honestly know what is in the minds of SCO these days... Each week their claims seem to get more and more insane.  Want to see the evolution?

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[ November 23, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[slave]

[The Anti-Microsoft]

quote:The companies that we have controlled are those we have been most successful with, the companies where we are passive, or we don't spend the time there, they just haven't been successful.

—Ralph Yarro, 04.01.2001