the latest from sco

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:07:06 -0400
dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> begin  Roger Oberholtzer's  quote:
> 
> | > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&si
> | >d=360
> |
> | "SCO has found no case in which it believes that Linux use by
> | anyone is legal, Sontag said."
> |
> | Even the ones I bought from SCO? How on earth could I ever trust
> | buying anything from them again if, at a later time, they can call
> | it illegal.
> 
> but wait -- there's more: mcbride said the suits are based not on 
> copyrights but licenses. which means that their current approch is to 
> go after *only* customers. while, of course, spreading fud about 
> linux.

And by licenses, I would imagine that must mean SOURCE licenses, Since my
Caldera came with the SOURCE (GNU and all that) as well as a License from
SCO, am I a SOURCE licensee? Of course, not of UnixWare/SVR5. The interview
referrd to 30,000 licensees. These cannot be UnixWare/SVR5 source licensees,
can it? Sounds like a hefty number.

Of course, I was surprised that the Lindows guys are SVR5 source licensees.
I would not have imagined that fit in their model. But it seems they admit
that they put UnixWare code in the Linux they distribute. Wasn't that the
reason for them getting a License? Whether they gave this code back to the
Linux kernel generally is unclear. But, wouldn't they have had to include
the source in their distro? The GPL virus and all. Still, any license use
errors by Lindows is nothing their customers can be held accountable for.



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