SCO has just expanded their lawsuit to claim ownership over human thinking
(and presumably, all of human being):
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040218015800694
"In Exhibit C, SCO sets forth additional code in Linux in which SCO
claims a right. Specifically, Exhibit C shows that Silicon Graphics, Inc.
("SGI") violated its UNIX Software Agreement with SCO by transferring
concepts of UNIX to Linux from its version of UNIX known as "IRIX."
IRIX is a derivative work of, and modification based on, System V that
contains ideas taken from System V code. In addition to SGI's transfer
of direct lines of code from UNIX System V to Linux, as set forth in
Exhibit A attached hereto, SGI has improperly transferred the UNIX concept of
"module" (as in modular operating system) and many other intellectual
concepts like "program", "assignement" and "operator" it developed as parts
of IRIX to Linux, thereby improperly giving the Linux open source developers
access to a advanced intellectual concepts for use in enterprise applications
of Linux. On information and belief, most or all of the ideas contained in
all of the files of the IRIX operating system have been improperly
transferred to Linux"
What is humankind's position on this?
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Alessandro Bottoni
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