Groking SCO
Groklaw has a page devoted to SCO.
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More like Groklaw is a page devoted to SCO. Are you thinking of Greplaw?
Groklaw is actually a site devoted to issues of law and technology. Recently it has become a de facto SCO site where all of the issues of the case are dissected by a remarkably astute and well-behaved community. But it is more than just SCO, and once SCO is gone Groklaw will continue to cover issues of relevance to the tech community. The person behind Groklaw is a paralegal, so the legal points are quite handy to have around. Every time a Slashdot story talks about some legal case, you get post after post saying "IANAL, but..." Finally we have a site where someone who knows about the law can talk about tech issues and how they intersect with legal issues, and make it clear.
If you think SCO has a case, read Groklaw and inform yourself. It's quite entertaining.
Hmm...that came out wrong. Obviously we have Greplaw as well as Professor Lessig's own blog, and those are clearly also about legal issues and are great to read as well.
yea, no, I mean Groklaw. I had wondered about the page/site distinction, but I just mean to point to the useful work on the site.
"I had wondered about the page/site distinction"
www.groklaw.net is the website; a specific discussion is one page.
Of course, technically, when you go to www.groklaw.net you do not receive the whole site but just one page, the homepage but if you want to talk specifically about the homepage instead of the site you would be more precise.
Also, given the nature of web-based discussion sites even a given page has different views depending on the number of comments and whether you view them nested,threaded... but all these different views are considered to be the same webpage.
I hope this helps and does not muddies your understanding.
Talking about SCO, have you noticed their open letter?
(it is signed by Darl McBride, but the hand of Boies, Schiller & Flexner shines through).
Some relevant quotes:
"SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws"
"In Eldred, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed for the first time in recent history the Constitutional meaning of the term “promote the Progress of Science and the useful arts…” Seven Supreme Court justices defined the term one way – and SCO agrees with this definition. Two dissenting justices defined the term differently."
"According to the FSF, Red Hat and under the GPL, private benefits are impediments to the general advancement of science and technology, and need to be eliminated entirely from the software industry and the process of software development.
But, unfortunately for the FSF, Red Hat and others, this dissenting view was squarely rejected in the majority
opinion delivered for the Court by Justice Ginsberg."
Note: these quotes are meant to show what SCO/Boies, Schiller & Flexner are talking about, not any agreement with their reasoning.
The SCO CEO Mcbride caused a cluster mess when he was at Pointserve, where he canned the existing business plan, then paid $$$$$ to outside consultants for a bogus business plan that made money off of "internet advertizing" yes pop-ups. (completly new direction for Pointserve, no way to make money either) I talked to him for a hour when I worked at Pointserve, he is All Smoke, Mirrors, and buzz words. He was eventually canned and Pointserve programmers left demoralized. Sorry SCO.
Why can't these type people be filter out, and put to work in a coal mine?
I will get a never ending story