sco's lastest blathering

[Tom Marinis]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth Tom Marinis:
> 
>>I'm in agreement with you, but this is the test argument
>>that many Linux supporters have feared would occur.  This is
>>the really last mountain to climb really, for Linux world
>>wide acceptance.
> 
> 
> I'm happy to see the GPL tested. I also believe it will stand
> up. SCO's legal theory is just plain nonsense. If I own the
> copyright to something, I can do anything I want with it. IANAL,
> but SCO's argument falls over because the notion that I can only
> make 1 copy of a piece of software is impenetrably stupid - it
> simply doesn't apply because, as copyright holder, _I_ am the
> one who can dispense (or not) authorization to make copies of
> my copyrighted work.
> 
> 
>>GPL is finally going to challenged in a FEDERAL court,
>>and if it is deemed in any way vague, mis-leading,
>>faulty, or maybe even politically incorrect, SCO's
>>case is made.  IBM will have to pay, and all the software
>>at the FSF must be under copyright.
> 
> 
> It already _is_ copyrighted - GNU project software has copyright
> assigned to the FSF. You have to file paperwork with the FSF
> in order to make any substantive contributions to official GNU
> projects.
> 
> 
>>That costs money, and guess who's got a lot of money
>>in the bank to spend to entice a lot of programmers out
>>there who haven't made almost any money for their software?
> 
> 
> This is true, as far as it goes, but an awful lot of people
> write code because they want to, not because they get paid
> to do it.
> 
> 
>>Kurt's Right;  He should have greeted the corporate heads
>>from SCO at the front door at Caldera a few years
>>back with his shotgun.  Put some sense into them... 
> 
> 
> No, what I said was that I'd be happy to pay the license fee 
> if Darl McBride showed up at my door to request it and survived
> the blast from my street howitzer. That's quite a different
> statement from a threat to show up SCO's front door and start
> shooting - which is _not_ what I would do, BTW.
> 
> Kurt

I'm sorry Kurt, I took liberties  :)

I stand corrected.