Here ya go Doug. Read this, it will make you feel better:

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

Note that IBM is charging SCO with GPL copyright infringement under the 
terms of USC 17. And IMO, IBM has a very strong case. This is the beginning 
of the end of SCO!

John Hebert


At 17:50 9/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>--- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/26/HNibmclaim_1.html
> >
> > IBM has escalated its legal counterattack on The SCO
> > Group, filing new
> > claims on Thursday in the U.S. District Court in
> > Utah alleging that SCO has
> > infringed IBM's copyright.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > SCO spokesman Blake Stowell disputed the idea that
> > SCO could no longer
> > distribute Linux. "We're the copyright holder for
> > the core Unix operating
> > system. If we want to charge someone a licensing fee
> > for using our
> > copyrighted software that's gone into Linux, then we
> > have that prerogative,"
> > he said. "If we want to continue to distribute Linux
> > to our existing
> > customers, we can do that because we own the
> > copyrights on that Unix
> > software."
> >
> >
> > I think SCO doesn't know it's copyright from its
> > copyleft. :)
> >
> > Ok, that was bad. Gimme a break, it's Friday night
> > and I'm still at work.
> >
> > Looking forward to seeing the GPL defended in court.
> > This will be a history
> > making moment for the free software movement!
> >
> > John Hebert
> >
>
>Sigh, I miss the simpler days.  Have a Bar-B-Q, invite
>the town.  Hold a town meeting.  Vote SCO's out,
>everyone parties till dark, then we burn 'em down and
>lynch 'em if they run.
>
>Carpet baggers.  When I was a platoon Sergeant
>(Grandpa winds up), I would take at least a stripe, if
>not two, if some moron took credit for another
>soldier's work (good or bad).
>
>I hope those SOBs never get another job.  Pick-pockets
>and thieves, the lot of them!
>
>What goes through one's mind before one decides to
>pervert a good concept and steal common property?  Can
>you imgine how many times these degenerates reached
>into the communion plate and took money out instead of
>putting money in?  I'd hate to be  blind beggar near
>their offices!
>
>Ah, its just makes me angry.  I am going to go read
>cartoons.  I see y'all tommorow after the red haze
>clears.
>
>If only SCO was based in the South where "They needed
>killing" is a sound defense!
>
>No good, sheep killing, dog stealing, wife beating,
>inbread, lilly-livered, cowerdly, sniveling,
>low-browed, dirty-minded, tax-cheating, non-driving,
>good for nothing, stupid excuses for mammals!  SCO
>isn't competent to fill sand bags.  They don't have
>the sense to pound sand for the love of Mike!  They
>ain't got the sense God promised a box of rocks and
>gave to a door knob!
>
>Arrgh!
>
>
>=====
>Warmest Regards,
>
>Doug Riddle
>http://www.dougriddle.com
>http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/
>http://www.libranet.com
>-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are 
>the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington --
>
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