Yeah, I laughed at that one too.
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:38, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >| SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid |
> >| from the look-at-the-silly-monkey dept. |
> >| posted by michael on Thursday August 14, @14:40 (caldera) |
> >| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256 |
> >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> >chrullrich writes "According to [0]heise (German, fishbait), SCO's
> >chief
> >counsel Mark Heise (unrelated) of [1]Boies, Schiller and Flexner has
> >declared that the GPL violates the US copyright law and is thus null
> >and
> >void. SCO's legal position is actually a little too crazy to believe:
> >The
> >GPL allows unlimited copies, the copyright law allows one. Therefore,
> >the
> >GPL is invalid. Apparently, they try to argue that the copyright law,
> >in
> >giving consumers the right to make one backup of their software without
> >any permission from the copyright holder, outlaws any contractual
> >agreement that allows users to make more than one copy." There's an
> >[2]Inquirer article in English. Apparently SCO is now using the
> >[3]Chewbacca Defense. Other SCO news: [4]SCO reports a profit,
> >examining
> >[5]SCO's contributions to Linux, [6]an attorney summarizes the case.
> >
> >Discuss this story at:
> > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256
> >
> >Links:
> > 0. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-14.08.03-000/
> > 1. http://www.boies-schiller.com/htm/flash.htm
> > 2. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031
> > 3. http://www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html
> > 4. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5063633.html
> > 5. http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html
> > 6.
> >http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914464,00.h
> >tml
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