SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 56597 Posted By: rkhalloran Posted On: 2003-10-29 13:22:00 Subject: "viral" GPL vs "derivative works"? Recs: 2 Anyone see double-speak in SCO's claims of the 'viral' nature of the GPL on one hand, and their claims of rights against any "derivative works" of third parties? Oh wait, this is SCO, never mind... ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "rkhalloran" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 53740 Posted By: doughnuts_hmm Posted On: 2003-10-18 20:14:00 Subject: In defence of SCO's management Recs: 7 People often are too short sighted. Their only perspective is money, money, money. But every responsible investor in SCO should be aware that greed isn't everything in life: don't forget to show benevolence and charity from time to time. Look at SCO's management: They seem to be a bunch of pretty modest folks. They are demonstrating charity by their actions each and every day. 1) they were content with the lesser money they made selling their Linux licenceses to a hand full (OK, some fingers amputated) of corporations so far. SCO could have charged millions of Linux users for their 'IP' reaping in billions of $$$. But they didn't. Because making money isn't SCO management's primary goal. Modesty is. 2) SCO could have enforced violations of their IP against SGI, which had stolen millions lines of valuable c