USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap 846
ronys writes "The venerable USENIX organization has written a fine response to SCO's letter to Congress.
As they point out, 'USENIX was here before SCO. USENIX was here before Linux.' Short and well written." And Reece Arnott writes: "As part of the NMap Press Release for the latest version of NMap, is a statement that explicitly revokes SCO's licence to redistribute it. From the press release: 'SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even unconstitutional)! Meanwhile they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their "Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux, Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms.'"
Re:ummm.. (Score:1, Funny)
Doesn't the GPL say you cannot discriminate against any group?
People, yes. I didn't see any mention of pond scum, horse excrement or Mormons.
Slashdot backend code (Score:5, Funny)
goto http://groklaw.net
else if (Gadget stuff)
goto http://arstechnica.com
else if (Linux stuff)
goto http://linuxtoday.com
else if (good journalism stuff)
goto http://theregister.co.uk
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From the changelog [OT] (Score:5, Funny)
Cheers,
atarola
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory $699 Joke (Score:5, Funny)
Please pay $699 for every installation of SCO Unix due to the presense of NMAP."
In USENIX Russia, Darl pays YOU $699!
Re:From the changelog [OT] (Score:5, Funny)
I wish i could do this kind of stuff in my programming, it's freaking hilarious.
;)
How Many Feet Does a SCO Have? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slashdot backend code (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From the changelog [OT] (Score:2, Funny)
Tell me about it. As it is, I'm confined to keeping anything amusing in the comments, and all I have to worry about is the day my company gets as big as Microsoft and our code gets leaked to the net for the world to mock.
Er... on second thought, I probably don't have anything to worry about there.
Re:I guess its (Score:3, Funny)
Uhm. How many times did we say that already in the past few months?
Re:About time someone did it (Score:5, Funny)
Ah but grasshopper, you assume that SCO is in the software business.
If Samba falls in the woods and there are no Unixware servers installed, does anybody care?
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:5, Funny)
Couldn't resist... (Score:5, Funny)
Legolas: Ai! Ai! A Darlrog! A Darlrog is come!
Gimli: Calderin's Bane! (hides face)
Lindalf: Alas! A Darlrog. And I am already weary.
(to others) Fly! Over the bridge! This is a foe beyond any of you. I must hold the narrow way.
(to Darlrog) You cannot pass! I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the Flame of Finlandssvenskar. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Utah. Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass.
Anyone else notice this? (Score:4, Funny)
To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, all instances of "fucked up" in error message text has been changed to "b0rked".
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From the changelog [OT] (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Open letter to SCO (Score:1, Funny)
Re:USENIX _not_ helping much... (Score:2, Funny)
EVERYBODY knows not to mix free beer and free speech... God, it's like mixing milk chocolate with Guinness...
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:1, Funny)
I made your wife happy without any clothes at all.
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a shotgun attack; it's the death of a thousand cuts. I like it, and I've been waiting for GPL'd projects to start doing this.
In other news, SCO's smoking gun [neosouth.net]
has finally been revealed.Heh... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Unlikely to hurt SCO (Score:2, Funny)
Re:About time someone did it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We live in interesting times.. (Score:2, Funny)
In unrelated news.... (Score:3, Funny)
Feb 27, 2004
For immediate release:
SCO Group of Linden, Utah announced the first end-user lawsuit designed to further their SCOSource program to get people to properly license SCO IP currently being distributed in Linux. SCO has filed suit against the owners of insecure.org [insecure.org] who, according to Netcraft, are running Apache/Linux.
Asked for comment, SCO Group CEO Darl McBride responded: "It is a terrible day when IP owners have to resort to a lawsuit to protect their valuable IP interests. insecure.org had months to do the right thing and respect SCO IP by signing up for our SCOSource program, but they blatantly ignored our generous offer. It appears that the only option left open to us is to take our case to the courts where we will ultimately prevail. So, it is with great sadness and regret that the SCO Group announces this lawsuit, because we don't do business this way. It just goes to show you how far these IP terrorists will go to destroy the valuable creations of hard-working Americans. Nobody likes a lawsuit, but we have a right and a duty to protect ourselves and the Constitution of the United States from the evil axis of IP destruction that is the Open Source community."
Obligatory Red vs Blue Quote (Score:2, Funny)