Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271455AbUJVQ6b (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:58:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271429AbUJVQzm (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:55:42 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:58817 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271438AbUJVQw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:52:29 -0400 Message-ID: <41793204.9090208@drdos.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:15:00 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Weinehall Cc: Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> <20041022090752.GA1308@khan.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <20041022090752.GA1308@khan.acc.umu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1504 Lines: 49 David Weinehall wrote: >On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >[snip] > > > >>No. They seem to have some factual concrete evidence IP covered under >>Employee >>agreements was used and subsequently converted into Linux, and they are >>very >>confident of this. From a cursory viewpoint, it looks valid. I think >>they have a case >>(having been sued and nailed for the same type of thing by Novell). >> >> > >(Quoting from groklaw wrt that lawsuit:) > >"The judge had a few descriptive words for Mr. Merkey, as you will note > particularly in paragraph 123 - 125 of the Findings of Fact: > > 124. In fact, however, Merkey is not just prone to exaggeration, he also > is and can be deceptive, not only to his adversaries, but also to his > own partners, his business associates and to the court. He deliberately > describes his own, separate reality." > >[snip] > >Meanwhile, life goes on as usual in the real world. > >Oh, and if you happen to need any code I might have contributed to the >kernel, it's available under the GPL. Only. > > >Regards: David Weinehall > > This was written by Novell's stooge Judge Schoefield. It's total fiction. Don't worry, it will get cleared up soon. More bugs to find .... Jeff - 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/