Guest JaseP Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 That's not exactly right. That 3rd party who bought the car innocently will not be criminally liable, but they are civilly liable under an unjust enrichment doctrine. But the who SCO thing isn't even that. It's more like Somebody MIGHT have stolen my car cause it's the same general shape, performance characteristics and color, so I'll sue `em on the off chance that that might be the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 That 3rd party who bought the car innocently will not be criminally liable, but they are civilly liable under an unjust enrichment doctrine. that's why i'm not a lawyer ;-) although i may be at some point (scary, uh?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Rethink becoming a lawyer. I practiced for 8 years, hated it. Getting paid was like pulling teeth. Go into finance instead (Financial Consulting, Mortgage Brokering, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 well, what I _want_ to do is get into technology related law-but it's just an idea i had, who knows if it'll ever actually happen. and you don't want me in finance, i can't even handle my own money right, let alone someone elses :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 "I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining," ~ Linus Torvalds http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/art...lavourID=1&sp=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Go Germans http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0604.sco.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emh Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Well, looks like somebody has finally looked at the lines of code in question: http://eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030606S0039 The gist of the article is that there are up to 80 identical lines of code between Linux and the SCO Unix. However, there are still many unanswered issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 I don't know which situation originated first but here's a link to information that two Polish companies will sue the SCO group if they don't stop their propaganda war without proof. http://lwn.net/Articles/35558/ http://7thguard.net/news.php?id=3148&secret=preview Glitz. PS. It still remains to be seen where the code in question originated and who actually owns it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 16, 2003 Report Share Posted June 16, 2003 some interested tidbits for those who aren't irritated to all hell by this thing already: http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?si...03/06/09/139257 it seems the senior VP of engineering and global services is preparing for a downfall...he sold all of his shares of SCO stock on the 9th. and here's a long article about the Trillian (no, not the IM program) Project: http://lwn.net/Comments/36053/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 16, 2003 Report Share Posted June 16, 2003 I think it could be a good time to short SCO stocks for good. :P Edit: Not really the time yet, SCO stock price is hyped to more great height than ever - maybe some insider trading as someone speculated? :x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Now SCO wants to discredit Linus personally: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1224246 I think SCO actually tried to kill Linux and wants to make it dirty before its final passing . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 I can't believe they're going after Linus. If anyone sees IP infringement in the Linux kernel, all they'd have to do is point it out to Linus and I'm sure he'd remove it and find a workaround. I mean, how do they know there aren't a million and one closed-source/proprietery products with code in it infringing one someone elses IP? Quick, pick on Linux since we can legally look at the source.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Going after Linus will have the effect of giving the Linux movement a martyr. People and businesses will rally around him to help pay his atty fees to grind SCO into dust. It's like the Japanese attacking the US at the beginning of WWII, the groundswell is what undid the Japanese. The built up anger is what caused the Japanese to be defeated. Indirect results were increased military production, increased drive in the military personnel, and an increased technology curve. SCO is failing to learn from history. IBM and Linus are the sleeping giants... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Aye. You don't go after someone you perceive as a threat when they have no intentions of harming you. You'll just tick 'em off and give 'em no option but to blow you outta the water. Tho I'd argue, the open source community is the sleeping giant, Linus is just the commander in chief ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Now SCO wants to discredit Linus personally: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1224246 I think SCO actually tried to kill Linux and wants to make it dirty before its final passing . SCO has taken those statements completely out of context. I remember reading the statements in question and what Linus was saying was that the open source community shouldn't be too worried about patents because if there was a patent issue they would simply find a different way to do it that wouldn't involve the patent in question. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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