Gentlemen,
It was not my intention to make any of you red faced and uptight. I was
simply sending out a news flash for anyone who may have been interested. I
must say however, you have all enlightened me, and made me think about many
issues here. I will agree that the GPL gives you rights, not many but neither
does a copyright. I don't know about the RPL, but it sounds ok. It is my
understanding that SCO is suing for copyright infringement (even though they
didn't right the code or apply for the copyright) and intellectual property
infringement. This is against the GPL! The freedom to write, modify, etc is
all fine and dandy but ( I do agree that in a corporate world they should
create thier own code for profit, and not steal from the "volunteer") the
writer of the change should copyright his work for his own protection. I do
not recall reading that SuSE says you are forbidden to copyright "your
changes" or "modifications", but I was drinking as well!
I must say I have really changed my thinking of "Free software" but only
because I now realise that the "free" they are talking about is the freedom
to do what ever you like with it, not a monetary "free".
Thanks for the lesson.. Here is another one for you all to juggle around! Last
month there was some sqwabbling about cox and no support for mozilla or other
browsers on thier support site. The server they are using is "unix based"!
Check this out:
Server: Apache/1.3.27(Unix) mod_jk/1.1.0
I thought it was cute! They are using Unix against us, they must be in with
SCO or MSFT!!
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