Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-31 Thread puneet goel
> > where is the proof that SCO's close sourse didn't came from open source Linux code. > > There isn't. So? Are you saying that it came from > Linux? Or just > bad-mouthing SCO? I dare not. No bad mouthing. Just a thought. But don’t u think it may be a possibility. Infact ‘Facts comes out of

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread Spoonman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:27:51PM +0800, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: Sanjeev>On Monday, July 28, 2003 9:21 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], Sanjeev>You may get away with lower damages paid to SCO, but you are still Sanjeev>guilty. Yes true, but wont the fact

RE: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
> what FSF or somebody like that can do at the moment is > "SUE SCO Over adopting unethical practicies", either > show us trouble code immediately or pay to FSF". I really do not understand why the FSF needs to sue SCO. What unethical practice? They think they own the Unix Code Base, so they sued

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
On Monday, July 28, 2003 6:27 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], puneet goel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > where is the proof that SCO's close sourse didn't came > from open source Linux code. There isn't. So? Are you saying that it came from Linux? Or just bad-mouthing SCO? > to me SCO seems to be a frontend

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread puneet goel
> > Even if its true that IBM copied SCO's SMP code > > into linux its just a matter of time before that > > code is scraped and someone writes something else. > > > Yes, but that does not take away liability for past > offences. This is like saying "If SCO catches me > stealing, I can always

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
On Monday, July 28, 2003 9:21 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], Spoonman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of now SCO is only targeting distributors of linux. > And they have a problem only with the SMP part of the > kernel. > > Normal users running non-SMP boxes should not be affected > anyway I guess. You guess

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-28 Thread Spoonman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:40:12AM +0530, LinuxLingam wrote: LinuxLingam>meanwhile, back to SCO, any bets on when they are going to lower their LinuxLingam>gunsights from enterprise to govt, education, corporates, SOHO, LinuxLingam>professionals, end

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-27 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "LL" == linuxlingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LL> [snip] LL> meanwhile, back to SCO, any bets on when they are going to LL> lower their gunsights from enterprise to govt, education, LL> corporates, SOHO, professionals, endu-u

Re: [ilugd] SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users

2003-07-27 Thread LinuxLingam
> > SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users > uh!!! anyone has some *bsd cds, please? [just kidding] but seriously, exchanging some emails with the moderator on the TRON website, and he shared with me that TRON's license is like *bsd. wonder if that is the reason why it has ga