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SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation
newsforge.com ^ | 9-29-2003 | The SCO Group, Inc.

Posted on 09/29/2003 3:32:20 PM PDT by Coral Snake

Monday September 29, 2003 - [ 03:16 PM GMT ] Topic - Press Releases

LINDON, Utah--September 29, 2003--The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX) today made the following announcement:

On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case. By contrast, SCO continues to base its legal claims on well-settled United States contract laws and United States copyright laws.

The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal battle that IBM has now started over the GPL. By so strongly defending the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification for its customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal indemnification for its Linux customers.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: cuffs; linux; mcbrideisacrook; orangesuit; pumpndump; sco
The Pump 'n' dump continues ;c)
1 posted on 09/29/2003 3:32:20 PM PDT by Coral Snake
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To: rdb3; justlurking; Liberal Classic; TechJunkYard; Dimensio; shadowman99; Salo; Dominic Harr; ...
The Coral Snake Ping.

Guns, Linux and Liberty!!! ;c)


2 posted on 09/29/2003 4:15:52 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: Coral Snake
SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case.

That's a strong claim. The FSF wrote the GPL to take the place of copyright law? Doesn't the GPL rely on US copyright law? At a minimum:

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

3 posted on 09/29/2003 4:44:58 PM PDT by freedomcrusader
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To: freedomcrusader
More:

0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.

4 posted on 09/29/2003 4:47:31 PM PDT by freedomcrusader
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To: Coral Snake
The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal battle that IBM has now started over the GPL.

I hope they're confident. IBM has just accused $CO of (among other things) breach of contract, which is exactly what they're accusing IBM of. $CO accepted the GPL when it was convenient, when they were basing their business on it, but now they want to back out of it?

By so strongly defending the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification for its customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal indemnification for its Linux customers.

That's a load of crap. $CO doesn't provide indemnification for its Linux customers either.

5 posted on 09/29/2003 5:16:12 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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To: Coral Snake
I don't know what they're smokin' over there, but sheesh, this is kookytalk:

SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case

6 posted on 09/29/2003 8:29:29 PM PDT by Petronski (Pummeluh pummeluh pummeluh)
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To: freedomcrusader
This is just one of Darl McBride's weekley pump 'n' dump press releases.

Guns, Linux and Liberty. ;c)
7 posted on 09/29/2003 9:14:30 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: TechJunkYard
I think that IBM just has one thing to say to SCO now.
I demand UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!!

Guns, Linux and Liberty. ;c)
8 posted on 09/29/2003 9:19:52 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: Petronski
My guess is a combination of crack and 'shrooms.

Guns, Linux and Liberty. ;c)
9 posted on 09/29/2003 9:21:44 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: rdb3; Salo
Where are Salo and the penguin pinger to give us the drill for this?

Guns, Linux and Liberty. ;c)
10 posted on 09/30/2003 1:11:33 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: Coral Snake
Sco say's

That's all I need to read.

11 posted on 09/30/2003 1:13:06 PM PDT by Lost Highway (There's no stopping the cretins from hoppin.)
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To: Lost Highway
Yes, the SCO execs should REALLY put down the crack pipe and check and see that the rest of their "stolen" code does not come from BSD or other open license/public domain sources.

Guns, Linux and Liberty. ;c)
12 posted on 09/30/2003 1:36:51 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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