7 Mar
2023
7 Mar
'23
10:25 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 09:55:50 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'The article argues SCO's lawsuit ultimately proved that Linux didn't contain copyrighted code "in a far more convincing way than anybody else could have."'
Did anybody else grit their teeth when they read that? Of course Linux is “copyrighted code” -- the copyright belongs to the developers who wrote that code for Linux, after all. They could have said “infringing code”. Or “code copied from proprietary Unix”. But still, there is this lingering assumption that the copyrights belonging to Free software somehow count for less than those for proprietary software.