Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 12, 2003 14:43 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

In other words, the two sides are crazy if they think the lawyers will not help make the situation more confusing, and the lawyers will naturally side with the more lucrative answer; i.e., the one that's more likely to result in more legal confusion, and thus get more cases for more fees?

You would think that these people would have enough of a conscience to understand and appreciate what the Free Software movement is all about, but I guess that when one's eyes are bigger than one's wallet, there's not much to expect.

It also amazes me how low people can go when it comes to excusing themselves by pleading ignorance. I know; I see it going on every day, at every IT job I've ever held:

"Clean up your home directory; it's taking too much space, and I'm not allowed to limit you."

"I don't know how."

"Here's how to do it. We have a help desk that can explain if you don't understand."

"I don't understand."

"Call the help desk."

"What's their number."

"It's in the warning letter."

"I deleted it."

...and so on, with everything from e-mail to job requirements to "missing" files:

"I couldn't finish my work because IT deleted my file."

"We audit that. It says here that you deleted it."

"Oh...I must have done it by accident...."

So, SCO may plead "ignorance" about the GPL. SCO was wronged. SCO got bilked by IBM. SCO would never do the reverse, and remove GPL indicators from code, then put it in their "private property."

Bullshit. When are people going to grow up?