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

[ronnie gauthier]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:46:26 -0500 - Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org>
wrote the following
Re: Re: [OT] I can't believe this can be happening ????????

>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.
>

Thats about what SCO seems to be saying. But BSD, OS X, and WIn would not be
included in that I would think.


>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.
>
>

Not at all, only parts containing or deriverd from their liscense with IBM, and
at this point other unnamed IHV's or so they have hinted in the past.