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Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 12, 2003 14:07 UTC (Thu) by fozzy (subscriber, #7022)
Parent article: Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

So the progress of the IT industry now hinges on what happened to a pregnant cow in 1887.

And Intellectual Property Laws promote progress How?


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Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 13, 2003 1:15 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Both SCO and its customers thought that the kernel was barren, but it turned out to be pregnant. And the worst thing of all - it was pregnant by SCO itself!

Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 13, 2003 5:43 UTC (Fri) by raph (guest, #326) [Link]

I think the main significance of the pregnant cow is that she provided incontrovertable evidence that somebody screwed somebody.

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