[OT] I can't believe this can be happening ????????

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Well, yeah.  But they are applying a very ambitious reading of what is 
derivative.  If the courts agree, ultimately BSD, MacOS X, and maybe even 
Windows NT/2000/XP would also be vulnerable.  For the most part SCO aren't 
claiming that advanced features were "stolen" from UNIX by Linux, but that 
because of contracts with them the companies actually doing the work should 
have contributed it only to UNIX, but instead also contributed THEIR OWN 
WORK to Linux.

Funny, it has been the aim of the FSF since its start to produce a free 
alternative to UNIX.  SCO is saying that if it is indeed an alternative to 
UNIX then by definition it falls under their IP.

At 05:35 PM 7/23/03 -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
>SCO is calling those derivatives of their work.



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