What's all this about SCO and intellectual property?
Can somebody tell me what that's all about? I would think that any "UNIX" left in ANY of my distros has been rewritten a hundred times by a hundred different people. Are they (SCO) just fishing? Is there a threat? I mean, even if some UNIX things have to be taken out of, say, red hat, it won't be long until alternative code is written, right?
SCO sues IBM over Unix and Linux
Re: SCO sues IBM over Unix and Linux
Do you actually know all the facts on the basis of the lawsuit to form a opinion?
Did you sign a petition when Sun sued MS over Java?
Could you please explain to all of us exactly what the lawsuit is about and why we should side with IBM?
SCO: Letter To Linux Customers
Looks like SCO has finally declaired all out war
http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_...customers.html
This line made me giggle :)
Quote:
We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
In otherwords...."We think that this could be a re-write of the code that we have patent rights on, so we own it, even though it doesn't look like our code, it does the same thing as our code...so it's our code" :rolleyes:
Dig in and enjoy the love!
More slipppery crackers..cheese, watch out!
Couldn't have put it better!
http://www.theregister.com/content/4/30734.html
You should also see their site, where they link to a letter basically calling their action "bizarre"
Bruce Perens had a better word for it.
"Rabid"
-Andy