____/ High Plains Thumper on Friday 02 May 2008 10:20 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> ____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 02 May 2008 02:03 : \____
>>
>>> cHIEF dARL mCbRIDE wrote:
>>>
>>>> mY LATEST SUPER DUPER TESTIMONY PROVES THAT lINUX IS JUST
>>>> A COPY OF unix. i HAVE YOU now lINUX thieves.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.osnews.com/story/19705
>>>>
>>>> cHIEF dARL mCbRIDE, sco
>>>
>>> Idiot!
>
> That is obvious, especially the schizophrenic spelling of name.
> Just the work of another troll.
>
>> I think he was joking. See
>>
>> Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX"
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> Novell grilled McBride for the better part of 10 minutes
>>> about "filling a form 10-K or 10-Q with the SEC that
>>> contained a false statement." Novell's counsel reiterated
>>> that two separate 10-Q forms filed by SCO did not include
>>> Sun or Microsoft revenue generated by UnixWare licenses.
>>> McBride adamantly denied any wrong doing, saying that the
>>> licenses were for the trunk of SCO intellectual property
>>> consisting of multiple brands, not the UnixWare product
>>> branch. This was the most hostile point of the day, with the
>>> council asking him the same question in several different
>>> ways. After two hours on the stand, McBride stepped down.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080501-deluded-sco-ceo-on-witness-stand-linux-is-a-copy-of-unix.html
>
> Article also states,
>
> [quote]
> SALT LAKE CITY—Last August, the nail was poised over SCO's coffin
> when Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell never relinquished the
> copyrights to UNIX, but nobody really knew when it would be
> driven home. The decision meant that SCO could be on the hook for
> as much as $20 million in unpaid royalties. Not long afterwards,
> SCO filed for bankruptcy, but that Chapter 11 filing was only
> able to delay the inevitable trial to determine how much Novell
> was owed. That long-awaited trial began this week, and Ars was on
> hand to report.
> Related Stories
>
> Last year, the court ruled that Novell owned the copyrights to
> original AT&T UNIX source code and derivatives, including SVRX
> (System V, Release X), and threw out the case. Now, the
> countersuit brought by Novell is being heard, and should be
> finished up this week. Novell has repeatedly said it has no
> interest in suing Linux users over UNIX copyrights, which would
> be against its interests now that Novell has ties to the
> open-source community through openSUSE and SUSE Enterprise Linux
> Server and Desktop distributions.
> [/quote]
>
> I believe the authors of Linux and related have been very careful
> to avoid this so called software patents entanglement, as you
> have expressed through your posting articles as such. Of course,
> they can't help it if someone patented Pythagoras' theorem.
> Ideal of software patents need to be trashed unless they are tied
> to a hardware event, per UK's patent office.
Physical byproduct.
Patents in general have all sorts of issues (speaking of the ethics of patents
in medicine and surgery, for example -- patents that kill).
Software patents involve no manufacturing though. It's like patenting auro...
or air.
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