SCO loses again

Posted Apr 2, 2010 22:51 UTC (Fri) by branden (guest, #7029)
In reply to: SCO loses again by felixfix
Parent article: SCO loses again

Sun's motivation has always seemed pretty obvious to me.

They have always been, in their own minds, the One, True, Professional
Unix.

If only permitted a fair market opportunity, Solaris would have prevailed.

If only permitted a fair market opportuntiy, *Open*Solaris would have
prevailed.

They wanted Linux tied up in court so that Solaris would become the safe
choice.

I'm open to alternative theories...

SCO loses again

Posted Apr 6, 2010 3:05 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

They wanted to open source Solaris. To do that they got experienced
engineers to go through the source, line by line, to identify all code to
which there might be other rights holders. Then in combination with legal,
they tried to figure out the legal status of the code. Where applicable,
they went to other rights holders to see what was needed to open source the
code.

But who knows for sure..