SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
Posted Jul 23, 2003 19:47 UTC (Wed) by
cpm (guest, #3554)
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SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux by stark
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SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
Hypothetically;
The trust layer is always a variable.
Yes, the straw man "you" could have stolen
the code and included it for review and
had it later adopted.
Be we are not talking about a straw man,
we are talking exactly about IBM.
Nothing SCO has said yet about this
so-called case has made any sense.
Everytime and I mean everytime it looks
like they might get pinned down they
change the story, changing the rules.
Can you come up with an example of a developer
who would have been the type of person
who did this?
Yes, SCO has stated that it is the Kernel
code they are talking about, then they
have stated it is not the kernel code.
If it isn't the kernel, it isn't Linux.
Linux is the kernel.
does SCO own the copyright? What copyright?
The whole history of the "Unix wars" is
so convoluted that the very few who understand
them have a very difficult time explaining
them.
As to whether SCO is harping about lines
of code, or IP, well, that changes. Depends
on which formal complaint.
Yes, it is acrimonious.
SCO has gone from how many to how many in
how long? What do they do now? Peddle licenses
and lawsuits. They are dead. I think it's
not just a little disingenious to think
that the whole MS/SCO license agreement a
back room deal to try to harm the entire
linux movement.
It's a very old trick, "Let's see 'em deny it".
Works really well in the press and doesn't cost
much.
SCO is nothing but big bosses and lawyers anymore.
This whole "IP" thing is so perverse it's sick.
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