Posted by: Charles Tryon
on December 05, 2003 11:30 PM
><nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but it remains to be seen if there are any violations of substance.
I wish people could keep this one statement in mind! In fact, if there ARE violations of SCO intellectual property in Linux, then the people who put it in there should have their a-- in a sling. However, if there are NO violations of SCO IP, then it doesn't matter a whit if McB doesn't like the GPL. It's not his copyrighted material, and he has no right to force other people to use his particular brand of license. If there is no SCO IP in Linux, then he loses his case, and his company collapses.
I used to think he was trying to get the GPL declared invalid, and equivalent to releasing a work into the Public Domain, so that he could grab all the code and make it his own, but even that is a dead-end, since he's screwed his own resellers so badly that no one is going to buy or sell any product they come up with in the future.
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on December 05, 2003 11:30 PMI wish people could keep this one statement in mind! In fact, if there ARE violations of SCO intellectual property in Linux, then the people who put it in there should have their a-- in a sling. However, if there are NO violations of SCO IP, then it doesn't matter a whit if McB doesn't like the GPL. It's not his copyrighted material, and he has no right to force other people to use his particular brand of license. If there is no SCO IP in Linux, then he loses his case, and his company collapses.
I used to think he was trying to get the GPL declared invalid, and equivalent to releasing a work into the Public Domain, so that he could grab all the code and make it his own, but even that is a dead-end, since he's screwed his own resellers so badly that no one is going to buy or sell any product they come up with in the future.
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