SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview 1388
Prizm writes "It seems that SCO is continuing to build up its case for world domination, as today it was awarded U.S. copyright registrations for UNIX System V source code by the U.S. Copyright Office. Shares are up 20%, Novell is nowhere to be found, and SCO is releasing binary, run-only Linux licensing. You can read all about it over in their press release." C|Net is also running an interview with McBride.
There can be no doubt about it (Score:-1, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There can be no doubt about it (Score:1, Funny)
The Streets will flow with the blood of the Non-Believers"
This is fairly pointless. (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft may have issue with this (Score:1, Funny)
Time for Linus to get medieval (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All Linux 2.4 user in violation (Score:4, Funny)
And in other news, the Boston police department just announced that every resident is in violation of a citywide law. They won't, however, tell us which law that might be.
In other words... (Score:0, Funny)
Translation:
SCO Obtains New Masturbation Toy, Wanks
ON NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND WORLD RELATIONS (Score:4, Funny)
on July 21, 2003
BY DARL MCBRIDE
FÜHRER AND CHANCELLOR
This session of the Reichstag takes place on a date which is full of significance for the Utah Shareholders. Four years have passed since the beginning of that great internal revolution which in the meantime has been giving a new aspect to operating systems. This is the period of four years which I asked the American people to grant me for the purpose of putting my UnixWare to the test and submitting it to their judgement. Hence at the present moment nothing could be more opportune than for me to render you an account of all the successes that have been achieved and the progress that has been made during these four years, for the welfare of the shareholders. But within the limits of the short statement I have to make it would be entirely impossible to enumerate all the remarkable results that have been reached during a time which may be looked upon as probably the most astounding epoch in the life of our people. That task belongs rather to the press and the propaganda. Moreover, during the course of the present year there will be an Exposition here in Berlin which is being organized for the purpose of giving a more comprehensive and detailed picture of the works that have been misappropriated into Linux, the results that have been obtained and the projects on which work has been begun, all of which can be explained better in this way than I could do it within the limits of an address that is to last for two hours. Therefore I shall utilize the opportunity afforded me by this historic meeting of the Reichstag to cast a glance back over the past four years and call attention to some of the new knowledge that we have gained, some of the experiences which we have been through, and the consequences that have resulted therefrom--in so far as there have a general validity. It is important that we should understand them clearly, not only for our own sake but also for that of the generations to come.
Having done this, I shall pass on to explain our attitude towards those problems and tasks whose importance for us and for the world around us must be appreciated before it will be possible to live in better relations with one another. Finally I should like to describe as briefly as possible the projects which I have before my mind for our work in the near future and indeed in the distant future also.
At the time when I used to go here and there throughout the country, simply as a public speaker, people from the bourgeois classes used to ask me why we believed that a revolution would be necessary, instead of working within the framework of the established political order and with the collaboration of IBM, Redhat, and SuSe, for the purpose of improving Linux 2.6, conditions which we considered unsound and injurious. Why must be have a new Unix, and especially why a new Linux revolution?
The answer which I then gave may be stated under the following headings:
Re:According to a letter to Linux Magazine .... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, a parachute made of gold, lead, or any other heavy metal would be fine. Just so long as they're kicked out from 8km or higher.
Has that stupid bill passed yet? (Score:4, Funny)
If not, do you think it would be too risky or confuse my senator too much if I were to lobby for passing this law, let it sit on the books long enough to let McBride and everyone else in that company redistributing Linux in violation of the GPL get sent to federal, "pound me in the ass" prison, then lobby to get the law repealed afterward?
Letter to SCO (Score:5, Funny)
As a contributer to the Linux kernel, I have decided to start a new licensing program. Your company will be required to pay a fee of 5000 USD per cpu on all installations of Linux you use or sell which include my code. Regrettably, I cannot tell you which lines these are, as doing so would my trade secrets to the world.
Also, I have identified numerous cases in which lines of my code were copied into the source for your Unixware product. The same licensing terms I have descibed above will therefore apply to Unixware.
I have sent letters to all 5 of your customers informing them of this new policy. I understand Sun has also been in touch with them.
I will be contacting you soon to discuss payment options.
Thank you.
Re:All Linux 2.4 user in violation (Score:5, Funny)
We don't play bullshit.
We don't need no steenking licenses!
Begone McBride, you annoy us, lest we dispatch you!
Re:wow (Score:1, Funny)
Re:All Linux 2.4 user in violation (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Uh, no. (Score:5, Funny)
SCO:
(1) Hasn't read the GPL
(2) Thinks the GPL is a load of bull
(3) Thinks that GPL won't hold up in court
(4) Hopes that IBM will buy them out before going to court
(5) Are a bunch of fscking idiots
(6) First against the wall when the revolution comes
(7) Will win and 0wnzor you all
(8) Will be bought by CowboyNeal
yeah, sure. do you take cash? (Score:5, Funny)
Linux User: OK, which lines did you write?
SCO: I'm not telling.
Linux User: I'm not paying.
It would not be slashdot without... (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia Unix patents SCO
(Sorry I was really bored)
How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux? (Score:0, Funny)
FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.
AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.
AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?
Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?
please use the correct terms (Score:2, Funny)
develop it outside the USA then (Score:1, Funny)
And he will also never visit the USA again, for fears of being arrested under the DMCA.
Re:According to a letter to Linux Magazine .... (Score:3, Funny)
The illuminati strike again!
Of course the contested code is: (Score:2, Funny)
bozos .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ANd how are they gonna enforce that? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The scary thing (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder if Ari Fleischer's Single Bullet Doctrine [washingtonpost.com] is applicable here. :)
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
The SCO bankruptcy Party (Score:5, Funny)
What are you bringing food or drink?
Re:The scary thing (Score:2, Funny)
So, say, if all of Boeing's 747's suddenly exploded while in mid-air due to a gross manufacturing neglect (e.g. using crazy glue for the wings), they can go get their name changed to Boing and not worry about litigation?
Re:Uh, no. (Score:3, Funny)
You forgot an option between the last two:
(7.5) is my employer, you insensitive clod!
(Which it isn't, I'd like to clarify, but wanted to make the ObInsensitiveClod joke anyway)
Re:SCO = Miss Congeniality (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Awarded Copyright??? (Score:5, Funny)
This works well for humans, too, at least until someone calls the cops.
Re:please use the correct terms (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Will someone send me a free copy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I have pictures of your wife naked. (Score:3, Funny)
I don't care. You can keep them and her too.
That's why I divorced the bitch you dummy...
Sorry, no $$ for you today...
New SCO story image please... (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks
Re:please use the correct terms (Score:2, Funny)
in other news, McDonald's stock falls 20%.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Awarded Copyright??? (Score:1, Funny)
Wait a minute! He thinks the couch pissers did this??!
Funny optical illusion (Score:2, Funny)
This guy's brave. (Score:3, Funny)
When I try to manipulate the stock market, I make sure to do it as an AC.
To the parents of SCO (Score:4, Funny)
Dear Mr. and Mrs. SCO,
Your son has been aware of our class activities for weeks now, but the date has arrived for our annual show and tell and your son has done nothing but tell.
We were suprised at this, since young SCO has been going about the place telling everyone July is show and tell month, but unfortunately he seems to have become preoccupied with a game he calls "share inflation" with his pals in the playground, which involves helping them all share with him and then taking his own ball away at the crucial moment.
Perhaps a meeting with the two (or one, if young SCO turns out to be the slang term he's behaving like) of you would be appropriate?
Yours,
Concerned teacher.
Re:Change your TCP/IP fingerprints guys (Score:1, Funny)
Let's face it, even if they won I'd lose nothing worth worrying about and they'd have to pay their legal bills 'cos I'd declare myself bankrupt and earn fuck all until it times out. If theirs a recession, there'll be even more people with time on their hands and a pissed off attitude