On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:51, Bob Weaver wrote: > Hasn't Unix been closed source from the beginning? Isn't that what this is about? > They own the rights to Unix > don't they? If in fact IBM is dumping closed source/copyrighted/whatever code into > the open source arena, > isn't that against the law?
Sure SCO has a case. They are trying to extract value from the IP that they own. The problem is that they can't prove their position. The source code to Linux is available, so it should be easy to see, but statements like "we feel our IP has been put in Linux even though you probably won't find any copied lines of code" or "we don't think linux could have progressed so rapidly without our expertise being stolen" are pretty much just conjecture. If there is any evidence it is circumstantial at best. They are trying to force IBM to settle (by giving only a 100 days until they apply to stop IBM from selling AIX which *is* based on SCO's IP) or buy them out. The share-holders of SCO don't really care about SCO living. They bought the SCO IP to try to make money from it, but not necessarily by making SCO a workable company again. > > I don't really see a problem here.. Maybe it's just me, but there have been a lot of > lawsuits in the past 5 > years that are way beyond the scope of sanity than this one. If SCO did win this, it would bode very not well for IBM, Sun, and Linux in general. Microsoft would be the winner, ironically. > > Just my thoughts, > > Bob > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
