Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims
Posted Dec 23, 2003 20:34 UTC (Tue) by
iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims by karekaa
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Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims
An actual lawsuit is probably not worth the time and expense, but it
might be interesting for someone to set up a site which lists all of the
copyrighted works and their owners which SCO has claimed to own, with the
intent of having a class action lawsuit at some point if it becomes
economically reasonable. It would might make the press take notice if
there were periodic press releases accusing SCO of more and more
copyright infringement as they claim more things. This week, they seem to
have violated copyrights by J H Lu (the libc that Linus took his strings
and numbers from), Linus (who actually machine generated the file), and
various standards groups (who actually named these things). (Note that
it's perfectly legal to use, modify, and distribute these things, but you
can't claim to own the copyrights on them if you don't.)
I dream of SCO showing up in court without any evidence, and when asked
why they don't have any, being forced to admit that all their computers
and hard drives have been seized by federal marshalls as evidence against
them for software piracy. Having a centralized location which lists their
crimes seems like a good start.
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