Darl McBride at it again
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/2024240
"SCO argues that the authority of Congress under the U.S. Constitution to "promote the Progress of Science and the useful arts" inherently includes a profit motive, and that protection for this profit motive includes a Constitutional dimension."
This is *really* stretching it, imho. It's a clever angle, and for this they deserve a "Crazy, not stupid" award. ...but it has holes in the argument the size of the Grand Canyon. Science != profit. Science ~= innovation. IBM Microchannel Architecture was innovative, but not profitable. It furthered science by inspiring PCI card technology and the SCSI bus. IBM could have made the argument to the government that the technology was worthy of a grant, but they couldn't have demanded that the government had a responsibility to them to be profitable. IBM makes IBM profitable by what they do with the technology. I can think of many similar examples, and I'm sure you can too.
SCO still has yet to prove the original argument that Linux contains their IP.
Better yet, this is now a full-out assault on a product they continue to support for their existing Linux customers.
"SCO argues that the authority of Congress under the U.S. Constitution to "promote the Progress of Science and the useful arts" inherently includes a profit motive, and that protection for this profit motive includes a Constitutional dimension."
This is *really* stretching it, imho. It's a clever angle, and for this they deserve a "Crazy, not stupid" award. ...but it has holes in the argument the size of the Grand Canyon. Science != profit. Science ~= innovation. IBM Microchannel Architecture was innovative, but not profitable. It furthered science by inspiring PCI card technology and the SCSI bus. IBM could have made the argument to the government that the technology was worthy of a grant, but they couldn't have demanded that the government had a responsibility to them to be profitable. IBM makes IBM profitable by what they do with the technology. I can think of many similar examples, and I'm sure you can too.
SCO still has yet to prove the original argument that Linux contains their IP.
Better yet, this is now a full-out assault on a product they continue to support for their existing Linux customers.
