Re: OfB.biz: It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux

On Sunday 04 May 2003 02:13, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
|  On Friday 2 May 2003 10:56 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
|  > Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of
|  > rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing
|  > hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly
|  > known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the
|  > Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software
|  > developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride
|  > refuses to release that information out of fear the community would
|  > "launder the evidence."
|
|  Umm, may I ask why you're using the term 'Jihad' here? I fail to see how
|  exactly SCO's actions can be described as a holy war, and I dislike the
|  parallel you and others, consistently misusing the same term, appear to be
|  creating between unjust actions and islamic belief.

Do you think there is a reason in SCO actions, except the intention to put IBM 
to the nail?

If SCO is concerned with some *code* (from UNIX or UnixWare) misused in Linux 
Kernel - than they should tell to Linux Kernel hackers what code has some 
problems with SCO IP.
Than this code can be dropped from the Kernel, or re-written from the scratch.

But SCO actions are opposite to this.
They exactly claim than they *do not want to disclosure* what fragments of 
code violate (to their best knowledge) SCO IP.
Therefor, termins 'jihad', or 'crusade' are applicable to this situation.
SCO doesn't need solution for current IP issues.
They need war, and they want to make that war as public as possible.
Does it sound familiar to recent news for the Far East?..
Yes. it does for me.

|
|  If you really want to draw a parallel between SCO lawsuits and warfare,
| then may I suggest 'economic invasion', or, as you may prefer, 'war on
| terrorism*'.

Their behavior is typical for many American companies without ingternational 
experience.
Note that I am not speaking about companies like IBM, HP, Sun, DELL, etc. 
which have wide regional presence in different countries, and IMO have a clue 
that there are some markets different from USA :-).
SCO is opposite to this. It seems they suggest that the World == USA, and act 
in accordance to this.
And rules can be significantly different to the rules estabilished in US.
For example, I doubt SCO would exist at all suggesting both SCO and IBM are 
registered in Russia, and one company is 1000 times (or more) bigger than 
another.
Company like SCO making similiar claims would disappear here in 2-3 days 
timeframe!

|
|  * This is called irony.

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