Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269859AbUJHAVL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:21:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268144AbUJGW5Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:57:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34451 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267657AbUJGWls (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:41:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:41:08 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone Message-ID: <20041007224108.GI12153@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> <4165BA70.5050208@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4165BA70.5050208@drdos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1816 Lines: 49 On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:51:44PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >If you want to spend god alone knows how many hours tracking down > >who wrote what and nuking the relevant bits, that's your time to throw > >away. If you want the same featureset a little faster however, I > >believe SCO are still selling Openserver licenses. > > We would spend the time or remove the code. 'we' ? > OpenServer??? Gag?? Puke?? > According to Carl "Mad Dog" McBride Linux is already his "product" (What a > joke). OpenServer is not Linux. nor did I claim it to be. I claimed that respecting the wishes of everyone who didn't want a part of your 'vision' would mean you'd end with something on a par feature-wise with some inferior UNIX. > If I receive a confirmation from A) Linus or B) Alan then we will profer > a license agreement for everyone to review and sign off on via PGP > secure email. It's not a "Linus and Alan" thing, the copyrights on a bulk of the code in the tree lies with other people. > This can be done, and if there is a process in place, others can come > and give money as well. > It's time ALL YOU GUYS got rewarded for your hard work, and not just > those who > positioned themselves to get fat stock options and IPO preffered stock > for .com stock market > Google style IPO scams. It can happen. You seem to be under the deluded illusion that all kernel hackers do what they do for the money[1]. Please, either cut down the dosage, or increase it. Dave [1] Whereas everyone knows, its all about the fast cars and chicks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/