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SCO in the newsSCO in the newsPosted May 6, 2003 7:30 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)Parent article: SCO in the news Ddos attacks are stupid and pointless. It just so happens that when you seriously piss of enough millions of people, the chanse is high that among those, there will be atleast one with poor enough judgement that he (or she!) thinks that such an avenue is worthwhile. I don't see how SCO can or will influence me anyway. Either (imho likely) there's nothing wrong in the Linux kernel, and they are just blowing smoke in an attempt to inflate their stock-price. Or there is some function or whatever that originated in SCO-owned code, in which case I'm sure it's about ten minutes of work to remove the offending piece. It can even be argued that this is not needed. SCO *themselves* in *this minute* is distributing the stock linux-kernel, under the GPL. That is, they *themselves* are giving the world the permission to use all code in the Linux-kernel under the terms of the GPL. I don't see how they can possibly be a) claiming that such distribution harms them and at the same time b) do it themselves.
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SCO in the news Posted May 6, 2003 15:22 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Interesting point! If they were to hassle anyone over copyrights in the Linuxkernel code version they are themselves distributing, I think they would be in violation of the GPL. But who would be in position to sue them over it?
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