Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare 455
Random BedHead Ed writes "Groklaw has some interesting new information online. In an entry today,
PJ has posted the Deposition of Erik W. Hughes (PDF), a SCO employee. Hughes' 2004 testimony reveals that the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) of UnixWare somehow used kernel code. Exactly how it was used is not clear. UnixWare was released under a proprietary license, but the General Public License under which Linux is distributed requires derivative works to use the same license. As PJ says, it's "now apparent why SCO tried to say the GPL is unconstitutional" back in 2003."
Thanks. (Score:5, Funny)
how long ago? (Score:4, Funny)
Move along (Score:4, Funny)
Oooooh the juicy irony..... (Score:4, Funny)
ALL YOUR CODE IS BELONG TO US! (Score:5, Funny)
Do not negotiate.
Sue their asses.
Come on FSF!!!!!
-b
Re:Wait . . wait . . what? (Score:5, Funny)
"And you've got Linux in my UnixWare!"
"AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"
Re:Oooooh the juicy irony..... (Score:2, Funny)
--
Something I never thought I'd see in bed either.
Re:confidential (Score:4, Funny)
Pronunciation: "kän-f&-'den(t)-sh&l
Function: adjective
1 : marked by intimacy or willingness to confide
2 : PRIVATE, SECRET
3 : entrusted with confidences
4 : containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could be prejudicial to the national interest -- compare SECRET, TOP SECRET
- confidentiality
- confidentially
Re:Wait . . wait . . what? (Score:5, Funny)
return 0;
Re:Not to be cynical... (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, but we all know, BSD is dying. Better to use Linux code.
So THAT'S what SCO stands for! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sorry (Score:5, Funny)
We'd like to give a big "Sorry" to everyone who is reading this! We ran out of mod points.
-Sco Legal Team
Isn't this what SCO was saying all along? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, well well well well! (Score:4, Funny)
Well well well well well!
WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL!!!
Look what we have here!
It's enough fodder to feed an ARMY of trolls!
The land of Grocklaw is sure to be overrun with the vermin.
Re:Oooooh the juicy irony..... (Score:5, Funny)
"Long-hair smelly's" (Score:5, Funny)
Ye fucking gods. :-)
Re:Bad moves now haunting SCO (Score:3, Funny)
Like going all in with a pair of deuces in a high stakes game of Texas Hold'em. LOL.
Re:Move along (Score:5, Funny)
UnixWare Licenses (Score:3, Funny)
End user customers who purchase a UnixWare IP license will not be in violation of Lot's of Mofos' intellectual property ownership or rights by using a binary distribution of UnixWare.
Warning! Individual users of UnixWare may be found liable for damages for copyright infringement of intellectual property owned by the Linux developers.
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Re:There's nothing new... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Long-hair smelly's" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Short SCO Stock!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Long-hair smelly's" (Score:4, Funny)
All computer geeks may join, and you can define your own rank. And: "please note that as we are Smellies, you are allowed to be *very* rank." :-)
Re:ALL YOUR CODE IS BELONG TO US! (Score:4, Funny)
Why? Putting Stallman on the stand is about the only way to fuck the case up.
Re:Move along (Score:3, Funny)
Re:how long ago? (Score:1, Funny)
wait one frikkin minute ..... (Score:5, Funny)
Now that's the sort of thing that investors need to know about:
Dear SCO investors,
You are investing large amounts of money in a company which;
a) Fraudulently attack large communities of developers/end users/commercial vendors
b) Fraudulently claim that aforementioned communities stole your source code and injected it into their software
c) Couldn't prove any instances of said instances of stolen code
d) Ironically stole the code from those they attacked
e) STILL couldn't prove that there was any stolen code even though they knew where it was because they put it there
You're investing in idiots who have proven they can't even find their own arses (asses for Americans).
How do you feel?
Re:Thanks. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oooooh the juicy irony..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad moves now haunting SCO (Score:3, Funny)
Mod points cost less (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Move along (Score:3, Funny)
Darl: I am your father, Linus!
Re:Move along (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mod points cost less (Score:5, Funny)
Ahem, I own the patent on mod points, whether they are
My law firm will contact Boies in the morning.