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Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX" (ars technica)Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX" (ars technica)Posted May 2, 2008 11:40 UTC (Fri) by kjhambrick (subscriber, #23704)Parent article: Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX" (ars technica)
IANAL but ... If SCO knowingly sold Sun a license so that OpenSolaris could be released as an open source product, does that not blow away SCO's IBM Case ? What I mean is that if the Source Code for Solaris is open, why could that code NOT be merged into Linux ? Or does Sun's OpenSolaris License prevent that ? -- kjh
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Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX" (ars technica) Posted May 2, 2008 17:43 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Yeah the licenses are not compatible. One has to wonder if the "sale" of this code from SCO to Sun is the reason why.Another interesting question this brings up is over the other big SCO customer. Is this why Microsoft has become so cozy with Novell?
Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX" (ars technica) Posted May 2, 2008 20:07 UTC (Fri) by danielhedblom (guest, #47307) [Link] "Another interesting question this brings up is over the other big SCO customer. Is this why Microsoft has become so cozy with Novell? " I really hope not. I like Novell and would hate it to see them too go down in flames as a Microsoft puppet.
Timeline Posted May 2, 2008 18:47 UTC (Fri) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]
If SCO knowingly sold Sun a license so that OpenSolaris could be released as an open
source product, does that not blow away SCO's IBM Case ?
What I mean is that if the Source Code for Solaris is open, why could that code NOT be
merged into Linux?
The case against IBM pre-dates the SCO/Sun deal that (apparently) allowed such to release the
code under something like the CDDL. More importantly the allegations by SCO are that IBM did
this merging and release long before that.
If SCO could show that IBM really had release sources in this manner then they could also
readily claim that, since the cat was already out of the bag, their deal with Sun amounts to
way of extracting some revenue from the "intellectual property" that IBM devalued.
(All of this is quite apart from the fact that the CDDL and GPL licenses are not compatible
for co-mingling sources and that there has been no credible evidence of any such co-mingling
to date).
JimD
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