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. > > > The way I remember it, Sun purchased the rights from ATT for Unix v4.0 and SCO purchased the rights from ATT for Unix v4.2. Sun owned just as much Unix as SCO. Since there was code that SCO contributed, Sun needed to pay SCO for these rights.
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