"i was recently sent a copy of sco ceo darl mcbrides open letter on copyright law. as usual, mr. mcbride portrays the linux community as the enemy of copyright. as always, he gets fundamental facts wrong.
their argument about copyright law is totally specious, and fails any sensible test. they claim that the u.s. congress authority under the u.s. constitution to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" inherently includes a profit motive.
this is an obvious misrepresentation of facts. its akin to saying that public universities are fundamentally unconstitutional, since they "promote the progress of science" yet they arent motivated by profit.
there is nothing unconstitutional in not being motivated by money alone, although clearly money -- rather than sense, law or anything else -- is what motivates darl mcbride.
recently, we had an unrelated copyright discussion on the linux kernel discussion list (some people still want to have binary only modules and try to argue that the gpl ... 下一页