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Bad wordingBad wordingPosted Mar 8, 2004 17:22 UTC (Mon) by stuart (subscriber, #623)Parent article: From code war to Cold War (BBC) "One is personified by Microsoft and its closed and copyright-protected code, and the other represented by the free software and open source movements, whose most prominent offering is the GNU/Linux operating system." The article is implying that Free software isn't 'copyright-protected.' Gah! Stu.
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Bad wording Posted Mar 8, 2004 18:39 UTC (Mon) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305) [Link] Not only that, there is this:"For the moment, the battleground is the legal action which the SCO Group, which currently own the Unix operating system which inspired Linux..." That assertion is in some dispute, to say the least: http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1015624.html?tag=fd_nc_1 http://www.opengroup.org/ Sorry, no time for HTML. At least the article did get the "GNU/Linux" thing right, for those who consider that right, and important. Er... in the part you quoted, not in the part I did. Funny thing, that. But no, Linux in and of itself was inspired by Unix, but then, so was GNU...
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