SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen 168
An anonymous reader passes on word of court documents filed by IBM on Friday. The documents contain a copy of a letter, dated 2004, from SCO to IBM's lawyers stating that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO, speculating erroneously that IBM was the principal funder of OSDL, where Torvalds worked at the time. Quoting: "The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, the Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."
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Re:No mention of PJ??? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Alternate link to the same story (Score:2, Informative)
Everyone is just copying from Groklaw (Score:4, Informative)
Since then all these "anonymous sources" just cite from PJ, without properly giving credit. The second paragraph in the groklaw article reads:
It also wanted Linus Torvalds, Eben Moglen, and Eric Raymond to be prevented from commenting publicly about the litigation.
Re:How do gag orders work and is it Constitutional (Score:2, Informative)
If a judge made an obviously bad gag order you would have a chance to defend yourself at your contempt hearing.
Re:Eben gagged himself (Score:3, Informative)
Oh, come on. Eben Moglen's stepping down from the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation [slashdot.org]. That's nothing near "gagging himself". He's still a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University. He's still the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. He's still allowed, able, capable, and free to make as much comments on SCO as he wants.
He specifically stated in his blog post announcing his stepping down from the FSF [columbia.edu] that he wants devote more time to writing, teaching, and the Software Freedom Law Center. He considers his years-long FSF work on the GPLv3 as "almost finished", anyway.
Re:SCO stock delisting? (Score:3, Informative)
of course then we have the problem that there are a few different PSJs that will cause massive damage to the cases if they go the not TSCOG way.