A new SCO distribution [LWN.net]

A new SCO distribution

Posted Apr 17, 2003 19:03 UTC (Thu) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
In reply to: A new SCO distribution by erat
Parent article: A new SCO distribution

According to my superficial understanding of the lawsuit, there is no legal
contradiction. They allege that IBM broke non-disclosure agreements and gave
away their IP to the world (I suspect they are mostly full of it, but that is another
matter). Once the cat is out of the bag, there is no contradiction for them to try
and sell whatever they can on the same terms. The legal stuff is all about
money, not about being on somebody's buddy list or hate list.

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A new SCO distribution

Posted Apr 24, 2003 14:23 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

But when you read the plaint, it's basically a list of lies, half-truths, and unsubstantiated irrelevant rants.

Like claiming that SCO was the only x86 nix until linux turned up...
Like claiming that no major nix from other vendors was ever ported to x86 (and yes, SCO *do* consider SUN to be a major nix vendor... :-)

Cheers,
Wol