[shadowman99]

SCO's (and Microsoft's) latest attack has no clothes. Sorry Bush2000, I know you had your hopes up.

[shadowman99]

Please ping your lists. Thanks.

[sam_paine]

Bush2k is still here?! Bless his heart.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not many commented on this thread and it seems relevant:

SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?

[ShadowAce]

Tech SCO Ping

[Bush2000]

I never said that Torvalds physically copied MINIX code. But he most certainly took the ideas directly from MINIX and incorporated them into his code. He didn't invent the ideas. He stood on the shoulders of giants, and then had the audacity to name Linux after himself.

[antiRepublicrat]

I know Linus Torvalds doesn't like lawsuits, especially since he admitted he had grounds to sue SCO over its current actions and stated that's not his thing.

But PLEASE let Linus sue for libel over this book.

[Golden Eagle]

We're talking 20+ years ago over in Amsterdam and Helsinki. They'll never know for sure if he ever used any Minix code at all, but either way Linux is hardly an indpendent piece of work, Torvalds will be the first to tell you this.

"I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do" - Linus Benedict Torvalds

[Petronski]

LOL

I guess the astroturf crowd will be down to 'look and feel.' LOL

[antiRepublicrat]

Now it appears Stallman is jumping into the fray.

With Stallman you have to be careful. When this liberal leftist hippie starts talking about all sorts of stuff and ideals, especially relating to commercial software, you need to learn to tune him out.

But what he does know is his organization, the definition of the free software movement, GNU and GPL. Basically, he says Brown is attempting to use popular confusion over definition of these things to further his goal by misstating them.

Another interesting find is that after all these people coming out to tell Brown he's a liar, they are reworking the report and it won't be released for a while yet. Instead of publishing a report that can stand on its own, Brown will try to incorporate responses to his detractors. I would love to see the difference between the advance copies and the final.