[Fwd: Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC Article about Linux SCO and Copyrights - BBCcalls for statements (fwd)]

[Paul]

Hi,

A reply from Bill Thompson (the chap who did the SCO copyrights piece
for BBC Online)

This came totally out of the blue as well!

TTFN

Paul
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> Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:57:06 +0100
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> It seems you'd like to beat my head in with a spade... interesting
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> I thought, and a very good demonstration of exactly the sort of attitude
> that I was criticising in the piece.  If you don't accept that the Linux
> kernel and the GNU distribution are potentially open to the inclusion
> of code that belongs to other people, or that since the GPL depends
> on US copyright law all those developing open source have to uphold
> that law - however much they may dislike some its implications - then
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> probably is no hope.
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> Bill Thompson
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