From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 22:38:41 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 608D437B401 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4FA43F93 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 85AB8526BF; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:08:37 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:08:37 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030713053837.GC94666@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030709125055.GA90046@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030709193315.A494@citusc.usc.edu> <20030710123509.GA97000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3F0D6AAD.9030406@potentialtech.com> <20030710141516.GA97366@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3F0DAFDA.2050708@potentialtech.com> <3F0E91FB.57B452A5@mindspring.com> <3F0EB5BB.1080203@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F0EB5BB.1080203@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can I find FreeBSD-related SCO lawsuit updates? 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: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:38:41 -0000 --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 9:03:55 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> In any case, there wasn't any such legal precedent established >> Novell permitting the distribution of FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > I'm still having trouble understanding the motive behind all this. > Obviously, SCO can't seriously believe they can gain anything from > this lawsuit ... Are they nuts and actually think they can win? Is > there some other motive that no one has yet to discern? Even if > the "Microsoft Conspiracy" theories are true, what does MS expect > to gain from such a silly attack, and why would SCO agree to be > a patsy? My current best guess is that they're hoping to get royalties from Linux. That's why they don't want to identify the code; they want it to be in there. They've said a number of things that point to this conclusion. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/SCO/sontag.html: "GPL has the same derivative rights concept [as UNIX]," according to Sontag: "Once contributed, code cannot be removed." Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EPBdIubykFB6QiMRAj0uAJ4xmeSNp7QCR4f4VArh5jqukq4/TwCgjdtl 0FkaNfJfDgjwhmrfbgcOKhk= =KPoM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU--