Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:01:17 08/19/03
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On August 19, 2003 at 21:23:01, Russell Reagan wrote:
>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.
You have made good points and there are thousands more points that go against
SCO.
You can read them all over the Net.
SCO is doing a desperate attempt to gain something for some of the copyright
they own on a very very old Unix. This attempt is sponsored by Microsoft.
After that they are dead.
The bottom line of this story is that Linux represents such a big threat for
you-know-who that their are trying whatever desperate dirty trick in an attempt
to stop it.
That is futile.
Christophe
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