[KLUG Advocacy] re: In the latest SCOttlebutt...

[Robert G. Brown]

It should be noted, for those who have not read the articles cited at 
the start of this thread, that Motely Fool (and not Mr. Thompson) mixed 
Sellers and cartoon references. 

I encourage people to look at the realted artcles, linked at the end of 
the page.  They have a number of open letters, from Linus, ESR, and more 
from McBride. After having read his stuff, I beleive he is carefully 
misunderstanding a number of basic writings on the topic... like the US 
Constitution, copyright law, and the GPL. It is hardly surprising that 
such misinterpretation results in an outcome that is favorable to SCO. 
Reality will once agin surface on the 22nd of this month, when SCO has to 
show what intellectual proprety of their was included in Linux.  This may 
end with a whimper, right there....

							Regards,
							---> RGB <---

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:24:54 -0500, Andrew Thompson <apthmpsn@imagerie.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 11:26, Peter Buxton wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:01:55AM -0500, Mike Williams was only escaped
>>    alone to tell thee:
>> 
>> > OK, since it's a Peter Sellers movie, maybe it could be considered a 
>> > Loony Toons reference, but no Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, or elephants!
>> 
>> I think the phrase 'the mouse that roared' is older than the movie. And
>> we've seen such things in cartoons as well. Besides, the like the image
>> of an elephant beating a mouse to death with Sylvester. ;-)
>
>Yes, the phrase is at least as old as the book. *grin* It WAS the part
>about Sylvester I liked, but figured it would be better to include that
>full section for context.
>
>-- 
>Andrew Thompson <apthmpsn@imagerie.com>
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