the latest from sco

[dep]

begin  Roger Oberholtzer's  quote:

| 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.

ah, but the quote is "30,000 licenses and sub-licenses with 6,000 
entities, which include many on the fortune 2000." it does not 
surprise me that there would be 6,000 entities in the world using sco 
unix -- hell, there are probably 6,000 entities using *OS/2*!

| 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?

god only knows what the lindows people are up to.

| 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.

there's no way i can find, or anyone i can find who does not get paid 
by sco who believes, that users are at any risk at all.
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dep

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