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SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)

SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)

Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:32 UTC (Wed) by DaveK (subscriber, #2531)
In reply to: SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register) by coriordan
Parent article: SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)

> It's certainly an important point but the Linux and FreeBSD guys can at least look at
> eachothers code. (when the drivers are free software)
Better that the BSD guys don't look inside Linux.
They might look at the code that SCO contests - especially if they don't know where it is, and at this point they become contaminated, and any work they undertake thereafter would become a potentially contestable 'derived work', and the cycle repeats.
but IANAL.


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