Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 18:23:01 08/19/03
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On August 19, 2003 at 20:42:12, margolies,marc wrote: >http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5065422.html > >just in case you all thought the issue died and chess computing remains >unscathed. I haven't followed this story as much as I would have liked to, and some things don't make much sense to me. Has SCO won a court case that allows them to charge for linux? Or can anyone just start charging whatever they want for something they don't legally own? Is SCO going after IBM and "IBM's Linux" only? If IBM used code from SCO's unix, then I don't see how that affects the multitude of other linux distrobutions. I don't see what SCO expects to gain. IF they win a court case and it is found that IBM copied SCO's code, how does this affect linux users? Can't the linux distributors or Linus himself (since he's working on linux full time now) simply rewrite the portions of code that were copied, and go on their marry way? If so, I don't see what SCO would gain by that. And what is stopping every linux user from switching to any of the free BSDs (Free/Open/Net/...)? I imagine that most linux users would make the transition almost seamlessly. Here again, SCO gains nothing if they win.
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