[geeks] This whole SCO thing is out of control...

[Andrew Weiss]

On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I just read an article at:
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/ 
> 0,10801,81613,00.html?nas=AM-81613
>
> Also, the stupidity of waiting a month and requiring an NDA to see how
> publicly available code snippets of 5 to 10 lines in Linux infringe on
> Unix code base is, uhm, interesting...
>

Not stupid.... slick... they want to stop people from changing the  
affected lines of code and invalidating their case... something they  
have actually said as to their reasons for this in an earlier  
article... but this is just what people would do if indeed there is an  
issue with code in the kernel.... nobody will pay licensing fees to SCO  
to continue to use the infringing code even if it is found to A. exist  
B. belong to them.

They severely misunderstand the mentality of the Linux community.