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SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPL Still. Yes. Now. Today.
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| 31 July 2006
| Pamela Jones
Posted on 08/01/2006 5:19:27 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:19:29 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:19:48 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:22:55 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
This isn't about the Earth Liberation Front?
To: Always Right
I thought it was about Extra Low Frequency, Project ELF for submarine comunications.
As soon as I read "Me thinks", I lost interest.
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:28:38 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: ShadowAce
That means, to me, that SCO can't sue anybody over ELF from this day forward. Period. Game over. We'll see if they agree. SCO will still sue. They will attempt to explain this away.
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:31:00 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:31:57 AM PDT
by
ericthecurdog
(The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.)
To: ericthecurdog
This is series.I'm totally serial.
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posted on
08/01/2006 5:43:58 AM PDT
by
cryptical
(Wretched excess is just barely enough.)
To: cryptical
Surely you can't be series!
To: Izzy Dunne
Relax, they're mostly TLA's.
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:02:17 AM PDT
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
I AM serious, and don't call me Shirley!
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:05:10 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
I sent this article to my programmer hubby to explain for me in exchange for 'favors'. He sent me back an email so full of acronyms and buzzwords that I am going to meet him at the door tonite with a pancake on my head.
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:07:33 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
To: ShadowAce
SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPL
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP.
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:08:02 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.)
To: Izzy Dunne
and to quote robin williams...
Since the VP is such a VIP, maybe we should keep his PC on the QT, because if the VC hear about it, he might go MIA and then we'd all end up on KP
good morning vietnam alert...
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:10:13 AM PDT
by
Irishguy
(How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
To: ShadowAce
they should knock a huge chunk out of SCO's case Knocking a huge chunk out of SCO's case is impossible, for the same reason it is impossible to desanguinate a turnip.
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:32:06 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: steve-b
LOL! Although I think "a large chunk" referred to a percentage of what was left after the June ruling.
SCO is in the process of burning like the Hindenburg before it actually crashes hard.
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posted on
08/01/2006 6:36:26 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Xenalyte
SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPLBFD.
To: sportutegrl
Computer people do have their own language. In short, long ago there were many different ways that people made executables (the file you run to launch a program) to run on UNIX. Most were proprietary, so nobody could make executables to run on various UNIXes without going through the whole license thing.
Then around 1990 the owners of UNIX published a specification for an executable format called "Executable and Linkable Format" (ELF) and most UNIX vendors adopted it. Most executables for UNIX are created in this format because it's a free and open format -- most UNIXes can understand it, and anybody can write it.
SCO, having bought the UNIX business, claims that ELF is proprietary information, that IBM ripped them off by "putting it into Linux," but unfortunately for them it's a freely published interoperability standard that has been in wide use for over a decade.
To: antiRepublicrat
Thanks - the trouble with these type of postings is the dearth of English.
While acronyms do have a place, this forum is likely not one of those places.
This is an interesting development & is likely to sink SCO, not that it shows anything above the waterline now.....
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posted on
08/01/2006 9:26:33 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
08/01/2006 9:56:32 AM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
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