From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 02:42:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEF7106566C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unix.hacker@comcast.net) Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8F38FC12 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.71]) by qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xEVv1g0021Y3wxoABEiAw3; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:42:10 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.3] ([68.41.84.140]) by omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xEhT1g01S31ffPo8bEhVE8; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:41:29 +0000 Message-ID: <4DFC1086.2070602@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:42:14 -0400 From: Allen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110616152941.GL5630@external.screwed.box> <201106161154.06300.rsimmons0@gmail.com> <20110616162032.GN5630@external.screwed.box> <3d43539af0e60964a0406b8df304f16c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <20110616182011.GO5630@external.screwed.box> <20110616184620.GB68867@guilt.hydra> <20110616192133.GP5630@external.screwed.box> <1B9EDB7CFB3ABCAA2E566153@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110617004745.e5245e96.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110617004745.e5245e96.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:42:12 -0000 On 6/16/2011 6:47 PM, Polytropon wrote: > There is another important term, but I'm not sure how to > translate it properly. In German, it's "Schaffenshoehe", > refering to the "level of work you put into creating it". > This finalizes in patent law. To make sure nobody can make > money out of "trivial patents", such as patenting the > word "or" and forcing everybody to pay a license fee for > using it, there is a certain barrier that prohibits > copyright claims on "too simple things". When a lot of people think of Unix as an OS these days they probably think of SCO; And another German word comes to mind when I think of SCO; Schadenfreude ;) -gore