From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 14:30:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9983E16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DD544013 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.166] helo=localhost) by tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AMaqR-0006n5-H2 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:30:43 +0000 Received: from rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.165]) by localhost (scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 25842-07 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:30:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AMaqR-0006n2-3d for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:30:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 3359 invoked by uid 0); 19 Nov 2003 22:30:43 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.624407 secs); 19 Nov 2003 22:30:43 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.624407 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 22:30:41 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031119222308.02cd8380@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:30:39 +0000 To: "Chip McClure" , From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <23740.216.195.235.103.1069277586.squirrel@webmail.gigguard ian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: SCO Lawsuits, round 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:30:47 -0000 At 13:33 19/11/2003 -0800, Chip McClure wrote: >Anyone happen to have a look at Slashdot recently? Happen to wander across >an article on the next round of lawsuits, targetting the BSD community. > >IMO, SCO's grabbing at straws, and they're sinking fast. > >http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/11/18/1742216.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=85&tid=94 Personally, I read this as "the SCO-is-evil crowd is grasping at straws". McBride said: >But more importantly, what we are announcing today is a substantial number >of copyright issues that relate to a settlement agreement that is already >in place around the BSD settlement from the 1994 time frame. As we move >forward, we will be outlining those issues I don't know how people get from there to "SCO is about to sue BSD"; all he's saying is that someone has stolen code which *isn't* BSD -- code which the settlement agreed belonged to AT&T (err, Novell). The standard operating procedure of slashzealots seems to be "take a perfectly reasonable comment, find the most bizarre misinterpretation possible, and laugh at that misinterpretation". Colin Percival