I'd have to rally behind Michael on this topic, I think this is where the opensource community needs to show is stance and protest in a non-vandalistic way. I personally was confused how some script kiddies felt that writing e-mail viruses that attacked SCOs website would do anything more than give the OpenSource community a bad name. This is where we as GNU citizens need to show our support for Linux, even if that isn't our OS of choice. I'm personally a FreeBSD geek. If SCO throws an enough money at this case and wins, that makes OpenSource lose value and vulnerable to many other lawsuits for someone that feels OpenSource prevents them from making money. Cough Cough M$.
My 2 cents -Aaron Collins hellfire at fastq dot com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Brown Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] [OT] Fyodor terminates SCO nmap rights -- how about Samba? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As you all may know Fyodor of nmap fame has terminated SCO's rights to distribute namp with its products. See: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676955381.html I know this is off-topic, but I am interested in opinions on the subject of SCO using Samba in it's products while they declare the GPL is unconstitutional and invalid. In Darl McBride's recent speech at Harvard Law School, he was asked in the Q&A period about SCO's use of Samba and the GPL - to which he replied something to the effect (I am paraphrasing here) of "Samba doesn't infringe on our IP to our knowledge, so we still contribute (??) to the Samba project and distribute Samba with our products" Is this hypocrisy? I welcome opinions of the members of the list. Sorry if this is not the right forum for this, but I am interested in the opinions of the Samba community on this issue. Michael Brown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAP8R5yEfMczxaHdsRApcLAJ94yu7LuXGL9saMm8Gv6J2ne5HWIgCfUuCs LPi5uElkzBbjLUC6TBjIZrE= =rhK9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
