Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Just caught wind of this:
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=99965
It looks like SCO is gearing up to sue everyone using Linux into paying for
Unix licenses, since SCO owns the Unix source code. If you look at this:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html, it appears that
SCO and their new attorney David Boies will undoubtedly, eventually, try to
convince the US courts that Linux infringes on SCO's Unix
patents/copyrights/APIs. (Recall the hanging chad shit in Florida in the
2000 presidential election? Boies represented Al Gore, and argued for him
in the US Supreme Court.)
If SCO succeeds in this legal game, they'll then pull an RIAA job, and
attempt to force all Linux users to pay licensing fees....
You heard it here first (unless someone mentioned this in one of the 90 some
hlds emails I deleted earlier without reading ;).
StanTheMan
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If you read the article carefully you will notice that they want to
license a library to linux-users that was formally limited to SCO-users.
>> The SCO System V for Linux license will provide access to SCO's UNIX
System Shared Libraries for use with Linux.
"While Linux is an Open Source product, it shares philosophy,
architecture and APIs with UNIX. Starting today, SCO's libraries will be
available to third-party application developers, OS vendors, hardware
providers, services vendors, and end-users. SCO will help customers
legitimately combine Linux and UNIX technology to run thousands of UNIX
applications. SCOsource plans to create other new licensing programs to
make our rich inventory of UNIX System technology available to the market."
I cant read anything about sueing Linux-users...
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