Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
	Diego Calleja Garc?a <diegocg@teleline.es>,
	Michael Bernstein <michael@seven-angels.net>,
	gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:01:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307241134200.21503@chaos>

> At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with
> claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages. 
...
> Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person
> found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it,
> unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property
> in question.

Yeah, right.  

    ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that
    they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back.
    Finders keepers, right?''

What were you thinking?  That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is
incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct
personal experience.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm