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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Seth on 9 September 2003, 20:32

Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Seth on 9 September 2003, 20:32: Hmm.... I guess after E.S. Raymond's open letter (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33976.htm) to D.M., he had to respond (http://sco.com/company/openletter/).

What stood out to me was him saying that Open Source coders need to improve the process by which new codes developed does not infringe on someone else's copyrighted works.

Really ?

Btw, Darl,there is absolutely zero probability for SCO, or you to tell whether a closed-source OSs has similarly copied codes within them.
Hmm....you seem to be holding the Open Source community to higher standards than the proprietary software communities.
Figures.

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Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Faust on 9 September 2003, 21:06: Yeah jesus how dare people make their code open for inspection and then claim "it's the ethical thing to do."
Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Seth on 9 September 2003, 21:16: Yeah, I also came across this (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1258642,00.asp) while surfing.
I wonder what he is cooking ;)

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Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Faust on 9 September 2003, 21:23: Oh and from the low post count I take it your new. Welcome to the forums Seth, good to see more non Trolls pop up. (http://smile.gif)
Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Seth on 9 September 2003, 21:30: Thank you.
Actually I was a lurker for a while...
And have no fear for I do not troll nor flame.
I wish I knew more about Linux. :(

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Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Faust on 9 September 2003, 21:30: quote:
The first development followed another series of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on SCO, which took place two weeks ago.

Someone give this fucking moron (the DoSer) a dickhead medal for giving SCO their ammo. This is why this issue should be dealt with maturely.

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But if the Open Source community is to become a software developer for global corporations, respect for intellectual property is not optional

While it comes from someone who is neither a major player or a respecter of IP, he has a point. Nice if it applied though...
Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: mobrien_12 on 9 September 2003, 22:58: *#&%ing McBride

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There is no question about the affiliation of the attacker
Title: Open letter from Darl McBride
Post by: Seth on 10 September 2003, 02:10: quote:
Someone give this fucking moron (the DoSer) a dickhead medal for giving SCO their ammo. This is why this issue should be dealt with maturely.

I remember reading an article where the author, after doing some tracing, suspected that SCO had shut down their site on purpose.
But you are right, DOS attacks are the wrong approach.