Author: margolies,marc
Date: 23:57:13 06/14/03
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But assuming that SCO is way wrong, won't their actions still have a chilling effect on the development of software tools and the fair use of code that chess programmers use? It probably doesn't yet matter who is right or wrong for our immediate purposes. It is the emergent effect on development and spread of ideas not controlled by Microsoft which seems substantive to me. On June 14, 2003 at 19:00:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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