Re: SCO Ip right's claim on linux and SCO Intellectual Property License Program

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Shawn, On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:18:10PM -0500, Shawn Robinson wrote: > My little brother was approached by SCO yesterday regarding licensing his > linux servers so as to avoid being possibly sued by SCO for copyright > infringment. I am wondering as to what the Linux comunity thinks regarding

Re: SCO Ip right's claim on linux and SCO Intellectual Property License Program

2004-11-01 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'm no lawyer either, but I like to write. Please enjoy: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better

Re: SCO Ip right's claim on linux and SCO Intellectual Property License Program

2004-11-01 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes That said, for my money, SCO's tactics smell of racketeering; but it's up to judges to make the final decision about whether they're actually illegal. Read up on www.groklaw.net for why SCOG don't have any claim (note the

Re: SCO Ip right's claim on linux and SCO Intellectual Property License Program

2004-11-01 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
This is not appropriate for this list. Please stop posting it here. I don't mean to offend you, but there seems to be an astroturfing campaign to make it look like various Free Software mailing lists have been flaming about SCO; I can't imagine why they or anyone else would want such a thing, but

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >You're asking why I think "can be flashed, but works just fine without >> >being flashed" is different from "won't work without being loaded"? >> > >> >Fundamentally, the latter case forces us to not ignore it. The equipment >> >won't work if we ignore the issue. > >O

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-11-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes, sure! If some stream of bits is considered software when stored in >> RAM then I can't see why it should not be software anymore when stored >> in some other media. I have not seen any convincing argument about why >> software should lose its nature if stored in RO

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
> >> >You're asking why I think "can be flashed, but works just fine without > >> >being flashed" is different from "won't work without being loaded"? > >> > > >> >Fundamentally, the latter case forces us to not ignore it. The equipment > >> >won't work if we ignore the issue. > >On Mon, Nov 01,

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
> >You're asking why I think "can be flashed, but works just fine without > >being flashed" is different from "won't work without being loaded"? > > > >Fundamentally, the latter case forces us to not ignore it. The equipment > >won't work if we ignore the issue. On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:51:56AM