SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Posted Jul 21, 2003 20:09 UTC (Mon) by Crusher-1 (guest, #10046)
Parent article: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Google search:

Ransom+Love+conference+Linux+Unix = SCO dead in the water. Ransom Love
gave a speech at a major conference. In said speech he stated that Caldera would
"help" the development of the Linux kernal, and made direct mention of the 64bit
development by make Unix codes available to the developers.

If you read the speech and then look into IP and "trade secrets" one will find that
SCO's claims are essentially baseless. Also, they started this soon after a couple
of the news sites posted the article with the details about Mr Love's speech.

The first sign of backpedelling is concessions. "Ok, so maybe if the trial doesn't go
well we can still scare the CIO's and Legal teams at various companies and make a
little cash then - that way we still don't have to actually have a product or
development cycle".

The other thing to remember is that this is a contract dispute overall. This is way
SCO won't actually show the alledged infringing code - if they did that all the steam
would go out of the FUD campaign.

Expect more twists and turns as the trial date gets closer. Perhaps, we will actually
see a buy out. Oh, and does anyone know SCO's stock value right now - gee it
seems that everytime they pull this it goes up! Hmmm, can you say day trading on
the specs?

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