Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
	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 18:17:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030724161745.GA28006@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com>

> [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 <szepe@pinerecords.com>