From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271702AbTGXQDM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:03:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271704AbTGXQDM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:03:12 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:17578 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271702AbTGXQDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:03:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:17:45 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Larry McVoy , "Richard B. Johnson" , Larry McVoy , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux Message-ID: <20030724161745.GA28006@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine> <141DFFFA-BBA4-11D7-A61F-000A95773C00@seven-angels.net> <20030721205940.7190f845.diegocg@teleline.es> <1059058329.957.11.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030724150841.GA12647@work.bitmover.com> <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [lm@bitmover.com] > > > 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. You're both right. The thing you may be missing is - intellectual property ain't the same as material property and the law has to (and does) take this into account. -- Tomas Szepe