Unix/Xenix =! Linux, which has been proven time and again by a number of developers who are familiar with the internals of both - and was the primary reason why SCO's litigation crashed and burned. Microsoft "bought" symbolic licenses from SCO early on in the McBride tenure, ostensibly for purposes of FUD generation. The entire case (from start to finish, including the MS 'license' purchase) was laid out on Groklaw.
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The UNIX copyright issue is a lot more complicated than can be summed up in a brief post, Cowthief.
And which litigation are you talking about? The one I recall involved the sale of UNIX from AT&T to Novell (remember UnixWare? Nah, neither does anybody else), who in turn eventually sold... well, something, IANAL... to SCO.
Regardless... all I can tell you is that what is left of the old Heath Company sold their Heathkit manual library and copyrights therein to some schmuck who started suing people who had posted scanned manual PDF's online. The Boat Anchor Manual Archive, for one, pulled their Heathkit stuff, at least for awhile.
Whether or not this schmegeggi actually does own the rights to the manuals that have been scanned is something only the lawyers can answer... I just don't want to see anyone else sued over this nonsense.
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If he filed and won a single suit that question is answered. If he filed suits without actually owning the copyright, he would be guilty of frivolous law suits and fined accordingly. Safe policy says don't post Heath manuals unless and until you are sure the "schmegegge" (heh, heh, LUV that term) is just a run-of-the-mill goniff trying to scarf a few bucks by threat.Originally Posted by W3WN
and around and around where dose it end? nobody knows
I AM THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS!
Why?
Why drag me into this? Years ago I even tried to sell my virginity. Seems they figured me out after I ran the ad for the forth time with a new ending date for
bidding. :rofl::rofl:
Dick Cheney would like a word with you.
I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster.
lol,
well anyway so far 424 manuals added. still have alot to go. I did manage to get my submit downloads working. So when it opens People will be able to submit manuals
Hope i can have this all done up before the end of the year love to have this opened on New Years Day.
total size of the site atm is 1.1GB
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