SCO Redux

[C M Reinehr]

On Thu 17 July 2008 16:54, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, C M Reinehr wrote:
> >"Ruling: SCO owes Novell $2.54 million from SCO-Sun SVRX deal"
> >
> >http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-ruling-sco-owes-novell-2-54-
> >million-from-sco-sun-svrx-deal.html
>
> I found the comments about the Sun Opensolaris licensing very
> interesting.  Now that the source has been out in the wild for
> several years, what will the effect be on Unix source?  Might
> Novell decide to make all of the Unix source open?
>
> Bill

Sounds like something that will keep the lawyers busy for a while longer 
(making them a lot more money), but how could you put the genie back in the 
bottle? Presumably, Sun released the code after contracting in good faith 
with SCO. Once released, how could it be called back?

cmr
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