Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy by John Gantz & Jack B. Rochester

Author:John Gantz & Jack B. Rochester [Gantz, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2004-09-20T07:00:00+00:00

An interesting case is unfolding in the software industry. SCO, a Utah-based software company, has sued IBM and others alleging that various versions of the Linux operating system use programming code from SCO's copyrighted UNIX operating system. But Linux is not your everyday operating system: It was created by the unremunerated volunteer efforts of thousands of programmers under the rule that anyone can use Linux or write additional software for it, provided they share those enhancements. SCO claims that bits and pieces of Linux were taken from SCO software. Ironically, UNIX was created by Bell Labs and given to the world as free, open-source software. SCO's UNIX is a variant of that. SCO claims that the DMCA favors its position, in the same way it ruled against Eric Eldred (mentioned earlier). In an open letter on the SCO Web site,25 Darl McBride, SCO Group President & CEO wrote:

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