Novell and SuSE

On Jan 17, 2004, at 12:55 AM, Mike wrote:

> Gentlemen,
>     It was not my intention to make any of you red faced and uptight.

I think we're all having fun.
> 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.

They haven't actually sued anyone for copyright infringement, they just
sent out letters threatening to sue some folks for copyright
infringement if they didn't buy a license. Then, in response to to the
Red Hat suit, they said that they weren't really threatening anyone.
the one thing that is clear is that nobody has actually been sued over
copyright.

> 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!!

I think SCO is really on our side. Daryl and the boys are pumping and
dumping SCO stock as hard as they can. Then they are going to vanish
into the woodwork leaving a bunch of greedheads who hoped to profit by
harming free software holding the bag. Hey, It could happen! ;-)