A look at the SCO complaint [LWN.net]

A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 7, 2003 19:52 UTC (Fri) by deatrich (subscriber, #25)
Parent article: A look at the SCO complaint

Thanks for the analysis and summary. This is one of those moments the community has been waiting for (not in a happy sense) -- a court challenge of some kind that drags Linux into the muck of licensing, trademark, and proprietary software disputes.

This case is extremely important, and I'm glad that LWN.net opened this article for all to read. It will be very interesting to hear the responses of major Linux kernel authors -- I'm sure that we won't have to wait long for them. I imagine that most Linux distros, and major commercial *nix vendors will be holding pow-wows. We will probably hear from them too.

There is some irony in examining SCO's web site over at netcraft: what's that site running?

enjoy.

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A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 7, 2003 22:58 UTC (Fri) by sjohnston (guest, #10002) [Link]

Its really not ironic. The SCO Group is Caldera renamed... Of course they're running linux servers. If you check out some of their other pages you'll also see UnixWare and OpenServer running different areas.

IBM and AIX makes some sense for SCO as compared to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, etc because of past partnerships SCO has had wih IBM, Project Monterey being an example.

Is there merit behind the case? Don't know. I can see that there is good cause to believe that SCO may have merit too their suit though.