Meet the Copyright Nazi in all its glory (SCO)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.sco.com/copyright/

Only thing I can say is: is this guy for real?

[chocolateeater]

1. Unfortunately he is for real.

SCO is suing IBM, Red Hat, and others because some code from Unix (which apparently is under copyright and "owned" by SCO)made it into the Linux kernel. He is going after the GPL(General Public License), because SCO used to make Caldera Linux , which was distributed under the GPL like every other flavor of Linux. The code they allegedly own probably got into the kernel that way.
:shrug:

Disclaimer: I use Debian Linux on my desktop.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Their TONE is even more frightening than their allegations!

They seem to believe it's a holy war or something. It's SOFTWARE, for fuxake!

[Dogmudgeon]

3. It's a "Clarion Call" to the Conservative legal activists

The Right has been pushing its agenda to re-write over 200 years of law, and it's been working. Gun laws of 150 years' standing have been completely overhauled, and now they're working to get their radical private/market ideology ratified -- and written into law -- as foundational jurisprudence, displacing the long-held ideas of the Public Good and the Commons.

That's probably why it sounds so highfalutin' and overarching -- like a holy war, because that's just what it is.

Antonin Scalia, as you might suspect, is a key player in this game. The Federalist Society is another -- hence Darl's invocation of The Federalist Papers.

It's also a call to the activist lawyers of the Right. Managing to get a favorable ruling from the SCOTUS would allow SCO and its lawyers to reap billions of dollars, make non-profit business illegal, make all open-source software illegal, and destroy nearly 30 years of innovative computer science in one single, compact, tidy decision.

From that point, they would be able to re-make commerce and industry in their own image. If you think the capitalists are "robber barons" now, wait until they've written laws that uphold the private profit motive as the highest purpose of law.

--bkl

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Thanks, now you depressed me.

We're all dommed, aren't we? :cry:

[KamaAina]

5. If memory serves, this isn't even the original SCO

which stood for "Santa Cruz Operation" and produced Unix OS's (Xenix) for the PC.

This bottom-feeder bought what was left of the original SCO's assets, and incorporated under a similar name (SCO, Inc.) Oddly enough, he is based in that land of moral rectitude, Utah.

As far as I can tell, the new, improved SCO has one, and only one, potential income stream: the ability to file big-bucks, wholly-without-merit lawsuits, or at least to scare some Linux users into settling and ponying up for a worthless "license".

In short, capitalism at its rock-bottom worst.

[slackdude]

6. Is that Lars Ulrich's website? n/t

[Deja Q]

7. The GPL violates the Constitution?! Darl is the only violator...

What a corporate fascist....

He even has the audacity to say this: However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress Excuse me, you bastard, other parts of the world have no business following the US's law. The US is not the whole world, and THANK GOD FOR THAT.

Oh, and he uses the DMCA to further his petty agenda! No shock there. I just love the DMCA and all who support it and signed into being... NOT! x(

Darl can sit on his middle finger and spin on it for a while. He can lick it afterwards for all I care as well.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. BIG FAT UPDATE: SCO handed its ass on a platter in court

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031205143009441