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SuSE sheltered by SCO pact

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Calum:

quote:"We have a joint development agreement with them, which includes appropriate cross-licensing arrangements," said SuSE spokesman Joe Eckert on Friday. "Our lawyers feel that covers us from any actions that SCO may take."
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this means that even if unix code is shown to be inside linux, SuSE have the right to use that code within their linux because SCO already said it was okay. and re: the nazi analogy, lets not forget that there's no governing body in international politics, like their is in business law. i don't think it will come to this though, see my next answer for details.

 
quote:SCO on Thursday said it had found cases in which source code underlying the proprietary Unix operating system--the rights to which the Lindon, Utah-based company owns--had been copied into Linux, an open-source clone of Unix.
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what a bunch of idiots. they should not go to court until they have proof, and they cannot have proof because their allegations are untrue.

Even if linux code can be shown to be identical to unix code, this DOES NOT prove their claims. BSD and Linux were both created by people who did NOT have access to unix code. these people created the software using descriptions (their own or somebody else's) of what the software was intended to do. Even if the description was a description of a feature of unix, the resultant code was original. This is a perfectly legal form of reverse engineering. This has been shown to be legal in that it is the method that compaq used to reverse engineer the IBM ROM BIOS chip in the early 1980s (more or less). lets hope SCO go down the shitter and waste their last money on this pathetic ploy.

[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: hopelessly outnumbered ]

Faust:
Look!  Look at that line!  It says "if x=y then"!  We have *exactly* that line somewhere in our Unix code, so they blatantly plagiarised us!

Filth.

Faust:
SCO : And in this line of plagiarised Linux code we can clearly see the line "#include <iostream>" which was clearly originally used in Unix.

Have they actually shown any evidence yet?

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:


Where the hell did that come from?  

Unfortunately, it seems that I need to explain myself better.  I'm genuinely suprised.

In WWII, Germany started invading countries.
Germany signed a nonagression pact with the Soviets.  Germany invaded Russia anyway.

For those who need this analogy explicitly described, SCO is the agressor, suing everyone.  SuSe says they have something like a nonagression pact that should protect them.  I say SCO will sue them anyway.  

And, just in case I need to explicitly say this too:   The analogy deals only with agressive behavior and non-agression pacts.  The analogy has nothing to do with fascism,  anti-semitism, the nazi party, the communist party, white supremacy, or your mother's brother's father's former roomate.

[ May 05, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]
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I know that. I just like acting like that sometimes. If you didn't catch my humor in the second line... Geeze.

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