__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 16:25 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 15:22 \__
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>>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> | "If people think SCO has gone crazy or 'MAD' it's now official,"
>> | McBride said.
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>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060808084608494
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>> <snip />
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> Yes its true the UNIX warriers lack evidence, and the reason is as I have
> said before, because they isn't any. The claims of interlectual property
> being made is not property invented/created by sco, it was invented/created
> by many programmers in many countries over many years, in most cases I
> suspect the companies who owned the UNIX boxes had no idea what was going
> on, they just thought their own programmers were geniouses. We all shared
> code, ideas, algorithms. Sometimes directly, sometimes in conferences
> sometimes programming magazines.
>
> Simply because it was still the case that if you wanted software you had to
> either pay huge sums or write it yourself, no one can know everything about
> everything. So Hanz in Germany who was a comms expert would share code with
> Holtz in Switzerland because he was really good with realtime stuff and he
> would share with Rob in England because he was really good at erm
> erm well he was a good laugh in the hotel bar at a computer fair. I know
> the communications path sounds small when put like that, but actually
> everyone on mainframes knew many others on mainframes, it was easier to
> keep track of who had what hardware simply because someone buying a new one
> put an anouncement in a paper. 'Oh look, Hanz has just got himself a
> Cray!', then we'd all be on to him wanting to know how fast it goes.
>
> All a bit silly looking back, but it really was the way it went, SCO trying
> to claim ownership of this code is plain wrong. Like me spotting that no
> one has actually registered the invention of the Wheel, so I register it
> and charge every user for using them.
>
> Actually, I wonder if anyone has?
Well... you never know....
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Best wishes,
Roy
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