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		<title>What color is SCO&#8217;s sky?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I haven&#8217;t written much on the SCO vs. Linux debacle in a while, mainly because others have done so much better and in much more detail than I possibly could, so here&#8217;s a summary of the situation as I &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/06/what-color-is-scos-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, I haven&#8217;t written much on the SCO vs. Linux debacle in a while, mainly because <a href="http://groklaw.net/">others</a> have done so much better and in much more detail than I possibly could, so here&#8217;s a summary of the situation as I see it.</p>
<p>SCO: Linux stole from us!<br />
Linux: Uh, no.  What did we steal?<br />
SCO: Linux stole from us!<br />
Linux: No, we didn&#8217;t.  What are we supposed to have stolen!<br />
SCO: Linux stole from us! They&#8217;re un-American commie terrorists!<br />
Linux: Dude, what the heck?  Tell us what we stole or stop accusing us!<br />
SCO: Linux stole XYZ from us.<br />
Linux: No, we got that legally from so-and-so.<br />
SCO: Uh, never mind. We meant to say Linux stole ABC.<br />
Linux: No, we got that legally from such-and-such.<br />
SCO: No, we mean JFS and NUMA!<br />
IBM: Hey, we invented those ourselves.<br />
SCO: We have proof! We have millions of lines that Linux stole!<br />
Linux: Such as?<br />
* crickets *<br />
SCO: We have millions of lines! Millions of them!<br />
Linux: Shyeah, right.<br />
SCO: But don&#8217;t worry, for a mere $699, you can assure yourself that we won&#8217;t sue you for this chunk of Linux that we haven&#8217;t actually proved we own yet!<br />
Linux: $699? For a small piece of something you won&#8217;t even prove you own?  What&#8217;s next, charging Windows users an extra $700 for Notepad because they can write code with it? <i>[Looks up definition of "protection racket"]</i><br />
SCO: Did I mention we own BSD, MacOS, and Windows too?  They&#8217;re next! (Well, except Windows, &#8217;cause Microsoft gave us money. For something else, I mean.)<br />
BSD: You&#8217;re kidding, right? We went through this in court a decade ago.<br />
SCO: Wait, we never said anything about BSD.<br />
BSD: But in this interview right here &#8211;<br />
SCO: Linux is evil! The GPL is unconstitutional! If you let people use software for free, then the terrorists have won!<br />
Linux: What are you people smoking?</p>
<p>Then there are the lawsuits:<br />
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<p>SCO: IBM stole from us and put stuff into Linux!<br />
IBM: Such as?<br />
SCO: Stuff!<br />
IBM: Details, please?<br />
SCO: They stole ABC, DEF, and GHI!<br />
IBM: Dude, we invented those things ourselves!  What are you talking about?<br />
SCO: Aha, but you developed those for AIX, and we own AIX!<br />
IBM: No, you own Unix.  We have a contract with you that lets us use Unix in AIX, but we own anything we wrote.  Besides, half those things started out in other IBM products anyway.<br />
SCO: Aha! You admit it!<br />
IBM: No, we own those things, and we can do whatever we want with them.<br />
SCO: Fools!  We own <em>all</em> your code! If it even touches Unix, it&#8217;s ours!<br />
IBM: And these guys call the GPL viral?<br />
SCO: We&#8217;re revoking your license! You can no longer sell AIX!<br />
IBM: What about this clause that says &#8220;irrevocable?&#8221;<br />
SCO: Hey, look over there!<br />
IBM: Where?<br />
SCO: Oh, nothing. Now, Judge, I have proof that IBM stole from us and put stuff into Linux! Proof! Millions of lines!<br />
IBM: Fine, prove it.<br />
SCO: Well, we can&#8217;t <em>actually</em> prove it without looking at IBM&#8217;s code&#8230;<br />
IBM: Wait, you have access to your own code, everyone has access to the code in Linux, and you need to see <em>our</em> code to prove that it&#8217;s infringing?  I thought you said you already <em>had</em> proof&#8230;<br />
* several more rounds of this go on *</p>
<p>Meanwhile:</p>
<p>RedHat: SCO, I want a declaration that we don&#8217;t infringe on your copyrights.<br />
SCO: Oh, don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re not going to sue anyone but IBM.<br />
RedHat: I&#8217;ll believe that when I don&#8217;t see it.<br />
SCO: Red Hat and SuSE will get theirs, don&#8217;t you worry. BTW we&#8217;re going to start suing Linux users any day now.<br />
Linux: (Didn&#8217;t they just say&#8230;)<br />
RedHat: (Yeah, they did.)<br />
* a few months later *<br />
Linux: I thought they were going to start suing Linux users.<br />
SCO: Wait for it&#8230;<br />
* crickets *<br />
SCO: We&#8217;re suing AutoZone and Daimler Chrysler! They use Linux!<br />
AZ&#038;DC: Yeah, but you didn&#8217;t sue us for using Linux. You sued us because we stopped using <em>your</em> products.<br />
SCO: Pay no attention!  They&#8217;re thieves! They&#8217;re filthy little thieves!<br />
AZ&#038;DC: Riiiight&#8230;.</p>
<p>Further Reading:<br />
<a href="http://groklaw.net/">GrokLaw</a> (an excellent resource!)<br />
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SCOvsIBM">TWikiWeThey: SCO vs. IBM</a> [archive.org]<br />
<a href="http://catb.org/~esr/hackerlore/sco-vs-ibm.html">OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint</a><br />
<a href="http://home.swbell.net/mck9/sco/">FAQ: SCO and Linux</a></p>
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