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If the Worst Happens, What Are Open Source Options?

If the Worst Happens, What Are Open Source Options?

Posted Jun 14, 2003 14:49 UTC (Sat) by wweber (guest, #11678)
Parent article: Will SCO's Suit Chill the Penguin? (E-Commerce Times)

Suppose the worst happens, and it is determined that Linux has everything that SCaldera says it has for "acquired" code. Then what? Will they cooperate in our removal of it, to purify Linux, or will they demand all Linux source be burned, along with every Linux CDROM? And is my one Caldera Linux machine still legal?

If it were possible to know what they are really trying to accomplish it would be easier to plan for the future. I have this FreeBSD distribution and book waiting around on a shelf, should the need arise, but it's just not as smoothly polished as the Mandrake 9.0 PowerPack I'm using.


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