SCO to license Linux

[Sunner]

Infoworld.com

SCO needs to die.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Are YOU down with OPIP?

😛

 

[pitupepito2000]

What's your guys opinion with this SCO thing? How long do you think is going to last and what kind of affect do you think is going to have towards open source?

thanks for your opinion,
pitupepito

 

[Spyro]

What's your guys opinion with this SCO thing?

SCO sucks.

How long do you think is going to last

???

what kind of affect do you think is going to have towards open source?

In the long run, nothing (hopefully). In the short run, things should be entertaining.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
What's your guys opinion with this SCO thing? How long do you think is going to last and what kind of affect do you think is going to have towards open source?

thanks for your opinion,
pitupepito

Open source will not be affected. Linux may, but open source as a whole will still exist and flourish.

 

[Smilin]

I dig Linux and all but I'm pretty much an MS guy - hopefully this will allow you to believe I'm unbiased when I say THIS IS A CROCK OF SH1T.

SCO needs to PROVE their case in a court of law before they start licensing IP that was created by others. They way they go on you would think that SCO frickin wrote Linux instead of Torvalds.

If SCO proves it in court there will be a lot of folks that are going to have to suck up some bad news and deal with it. I doubt this will happen and in the meantime SCO needs to STFU.

 

[Nothinman]

Even if they do own copyright to some of the code in the kernel their licensing scheme won't work because once it's under the GPL, which is required for it to be included in the kernel, anyone can distribute it for free. 1 person buys their license then redistributes their code free and legally.

And the fact that when Caldera/SCO was run by Ransom Love he said they were going to put some work into the Linux kernel would seem to invalidate their claims, if the code was given up by Ransom earlier I don't see how the current people running the company can rescind that.

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Even if they do own copyright to some of the code in the kernel their licensing scheme won't work because once it's under the GPL, which is required for it to be included in the kernel, anyone can distribute it for free. 1 person buys their license then redistributes their code free and legally.

And the fact that when Caldera/SCO was run by Ransom Love he said they were going to put some work into the Linux kernel would seem to invalidate their claims, if the code was given up by Ransom earlier I don't see how the current people running the company can rescind that.

The idea though is that if there is code that is their IP, it can't be GPL'ed without their permission, so the GPL wouldn't apply. It would be like me trying to say I had trademark ownership of the coke logo. Just because I say so doesn't mean I do, and I couldn't relicense what I don't own.

Anyway I think everyone knows sco is full of sooo much crap. I hope no pansy company buys a "linux license" from them out of fear since it will ultimately go to their legal attack fund. I'm still counting on IBM crushing them. Ultimately I don't think all this will have any effect on anything, but in the short time it might make some managers stay away from linux for a bit out of ignorance and fear. Thats a bad thing.

Hmmm so what happens if SCO sells these licenses to companies for IP that they don't own. If it were proven that SCO had no claim over it, wouldn't they be open to some very large lawsuits themselves? Maybe thats the idea, everyone buys a license, IBM proves they have no claim over the code, then everyone sues them putting them out of business for good. 😀

 

[chsh1ca]

The most amusing part of the whole story:

Stowell declined to provide specific details of SCO's new licensing program, saying only, "we're working on some details to try and create some kind of a licensing program for Linux users to be able to run Linux legally."

Let's just ignore the fact that people haven't been proven to be using Linux illegally in the first place, shall we?

😀

 

[Nothinman]

The idea though is that if there is code that is their IP, it can't be GPL'ed without their permission, so the GPL wouldn't apply.

It would because Random bought out SCO, so Caldera owned all their IP and freely put some of it in the Linux kernel under the GPL.

 

[Sunner]

And the story goes on, more BS from SCO.

Linuxtoday.com.