Chevy, nice_stock: the crunchie position
Message ID: 67740
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-05 00:38:00
Subject: Chevy, nice_stock:the crunchie position
Recs: 3
Okay here is how the Linux development process works: you do not get to just "contribute." Contribution to the source tree is VERY conscripted. Though the list is long, most of the contributors cannot directly commit, but instead submit "patches" that are then scrutinized and then they sign an affadavit (a document that is legal in the US) swearing that they have rights to so contribute the code they have contributed. Therefore, they and they alone are responsible for any code in the kernel under their name or that of their project.
I have been through the process, as a submitter of patches to a kernel module project (not in the main kernel tree) and as a committer to another module project. The documents are very thorough, very legal, and leave no doubt that my contributions are mine AS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM. If SCOX needs to go after anyone, since there is no "Linux, INC." they must go after a guilty contributor, not the end users and not the distributors.
As to copyrights, they didn't file for those until May of this year and didn't get them until well AFTER that. Additionally, they have no patents or patent rights, no trademark rights and no exclusive rights to the UNIX source released prior to their purchase of what limited rights they do have.
They haven't sued Novell or Red Hat or SuSE. They have given up on the original "trade secret" allegations that they filed against IBM (in favor of nebulous and unfounded "contract violation" and "derivative works" arguments).
SCOX has no case, they have admitted as much in their legal filings and their constant lying (including a BIG one yesterday from Darl himself in his new "Open Letter" - a lie that will, directly effect the stock price and diminish shareholder value) in the press and media and they, their shills and their criminal management and backers will find themselves in criminal court soon for Federal fraud. The company is about to be sued in no fewer than 35 countries and, in the two times they went to court, they lost and lost big because they GAVE UP WITHOUT A FIGHT (in one case, leaving a valued, long-term partner and distributor to twist in the wind).
If you are in this as investors, cash in while you can NOW.
This is, after all, a stock scam.
k
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Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-05 00:38:00
Subject: Chevy, nice_stock:the crunchie position
Recs: 3
Okay here is how the Linux development process works: you do not get to just "contribute." Contribution to the source tree is VERY conscripted. Though the list is long, most of the contributors cannot directly commit, but instead submit "patches" that are then scrutinized and then they sign an affadavit (a document that is legal in the US) swearing that they have rights to so contribute the code they have contributed. Therefore, they and they alone are responsible for any code in the kernel under their name or that of their project.
I have been through the process, as a submitter of patches to a kernel module project (not in the main kernel tree) and as a committer to another module project. The documents are very thorough, very legal, and leave no doubt that my contributions are mine AS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM. If SCOX needs to go after anyone, since there is no "Linux, INC." they must go after a guilty contributor, not the end users and not the distributors.
As to copyrights, they didn't file for those until May of this year and didn't get them until well AFTER that. Additionally, they have no patents or patent rights, no trademark rights and no exclusive rights to the UNIX source released prior to their purchase of what limited rights they do have.
They haven't sued Novell or Red Hat or SuSE. They have given up on the original "trade secret" allegations that they filed against IBM (in favor of nebulous and unfounded "contract violation" and "derivative works" arguments).
SCOX has no case, they have admitted as much in their legal filings and their constant lying (including a BIG one yesterday from Darl himself in his new "Open Letter" - a lie that will, directly effect the stock price and diminish shareholder value) in the press and media and they, their shills and their criminal management and backers will find themselves in criminal court soon for Federal fraud. The company is about to be sued in no fewer than 35 countries and, in the two times they went to court, they lost and lost big because they GAVE UP WITHOUT A FIGHT (in one case, leaving a valued, long-term partner and distributor to twist in the wind).
If you are in this as investors, cash in while you can NOW.
This is, after all, a stock scam.
k
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