Yeah, there's a great idea. Suddenly, everybody that attends that
conference is prohibited from contributing code to any open source
project because they've been "tainted."

My favorite promise from the ad is "up to the minute disclosures." I
realize that they're playing off of the James Bond metaphor, but that
still sounds like "come to our conference and we'll show you our code."
Honestly folks, I would be hesitant to attend anything where SCO has a
presence, just on the fear that they may use my attendance to disqualify
me from ever touching Linux code.

Oh, and on the topic of permission to use the James Bond theme, scroll
to the bottom of this page:

http://www.sco.com/2003forum/

But one interesting thing I found in their legal notice might interest
you all a bit. It seems like the typical un-warantee until the last
three words:

SCO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, AS TO ANY MATTER WHATSOEVER RELATING TO OR REFERENCED BY THE
SCO WEB SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON INFRINGEMENT.

A little ironic, wouldn't you say? :-)

-Brent


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