On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:46:26 -0500 - Stuart Biggerstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: [OT] I can't believe this can be happening ????????
>Well, yeah. But they are applying a very ambitious reading of what is >derivative. If the courts agree, ultimately BSD, MacOS X, and maybe even >Windows NT/2000/XP would also be vulnerable. For the most part SCO aren't >claiming that advanced features were "stolen" from UNIX by Linux, but that >because of contracts with them the companies actually doing the work should >have contributed it only to UNIX, but instead also contributed THEIR OWN >WORK to Linux. > Thats about what SCO seems to be saying. But BSD, OS X, and WIn would not be included in that I would think. >Funny, it has been the aim of the FSF since its start to produce a free >alternative to UNIX. SCO is saying that if it is indeed an alternative to >UNIX then by definition it falls under their IP. > > Not at all, only parts containing or deriverd from their liscense with IBM, and at this point other unnamed IHV's or so they have hinted in the past. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
