On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:26 -0700, Al wrote: > [b]McNeely: "We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code". > [/b] > > Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately > open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that > SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be > irrelevant in light of the recent court decision.
It actually means jack. The axe to grind which novell has is with SCO, not Sun. Matthew > > > > > > The SCO suit caused a havoc, b/c the authorship (& > > thus the copyright ownership) is a big mess in Linux. > > Linus never bothered to keep track of who owned > > what, and/or verify whether the whats are > > legitimate. Solaris is on a very different boat. > > This actually also explains why IBM is moving > > toward Solaris. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Kaiwai's Blog: http://kaiwai.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
