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Subject: Re: Linux is a PIRATED VERSIOn of UNIX

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:00:28 06/14/03

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On June 13, 2003 at 13:37:09, margolies,marc wrote:

>On June 12, 2003 at 22:50:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>SCO seems to think so. They are trying to sue IBM right now with Microsoft's
>money (Microsoft just bought a UNIX license frome them to subvent their legal
>costs.) It's all over the news.
>I guess that brings us back up to a 100% ;> marc
>

SCO is nuts.  The linux kernel was developed from scratch, for this
very reason.  IE to avoid the old AT&T unix license fee that everyone
had to pay to use _any_ flavor of Unix (even BSD unix).

SCO doesn't even own any license for unix, in fact, except for the watered-down
version _they_ used to distribute...


>
>>On June 12, 2003 at 02:15:34, Alastair Scott wrote:
>>
>>>On June 11, 2003 at 21:05:11, mike schoonover wrote:
>>>
>>>>my geuss is,
>>>>100% of every one who has been on the net for more than 3 years.
>>>>they got it,and dont know it.
>>>>regards
>>>>mike
>>>
>>>Well, make that 99.999999% because, as a Linux user, I have no need ;)
>>>
>>>(From what I can tell unauthorised copying of commercial Linux packages is rare,
>>>mainly because they tend to support very specialised business tasks).
>>
>>And because there are so little.
>>
>>>Alastair



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