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SCO's earnings report

SCO's earnings report

Posted Aug 14, 2003 13:37 UTC (Thu) by dbhost (guest, #3461)
In reply to: SCO's earnings report by jeroen
Parent article: SCO's earnings report

Let's see, Copyright claims that additional copies may be made with the copyright holder's written permission, the copyright holder has released the software under the GNU / GPL, which supplies said written permission, so what's the big deal? If anything, it looks like McBumpkin and his cronies are sniffing glue again.


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SCO's earnings report

Posted Aug 14, 2003 13:50 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

Well, we know that SCO breaks the GPL by wanting an antidot license, and therefore, the
GPL is invalid for SCO. But according to their own words, the GPL is null and void as is,
anyway, so they broke the copyright of thousands by distributing Caldera OpenLinux. They
had only the right to make a single personal backup of the RedHat distribution OpenLinux
originally bases on.

How hot is it in Utah at the moment?

SCO's earnings report

Posted Aug 14, 2003 15:19 UTC (Thu) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

Actually, OpenLinux was based on the LST distribution from Erlangen, Germany. Caldera Network Desktop used Red Hat.

Just clearin' a few things up, that's all.

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