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"Open Source supports America's enemies" says SCO

2004-01-21, 10:42 PM #1

Evil_Giraffe

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35042.html

2004-01-21, 10:53 PM #2

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tsk tsk

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2004-01-21, 11:13 PM #3

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Can someone give me the background to all this? Cause it sounds rather funny [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-21, 11:21 PM #4

Evil_Giraffe

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It all started when SCO sued IBM for inserting System V UNIX code into Linux. SCO claimed ownership of the System V source code from a deal done with Novell way back, and it's all descended from there, and SCO is threatening to sue Linux users for using their software without licence. For an overview of the whole thing, check out
http://www.vnunet.com/Specials/1141951

2004-01-21, 11:56 PM #5

Mort-Hog

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How can SCO own Linux? I thought it was free, no-one owned it...

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2004-01-22, 1:43 AM #6

DSettahr

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They're saying that Linux contains portions of code that they wrote, and that were included into Linux without their permission.

Sounds like a load of horse crap to me. Remember when Saddam bought 200 ps2 stations, and everyone was afraid that he would find a way to turn them into a collective super computer to work on making nuclear weapons? Turned out he was just giving them as gifts to the most trusted and able members of his government.

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2004-01-22, 3:51 AM #7

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They didn't write it. SCO claims to have purchased the rights to UNIX from Novell. Novell realizes that UNIX is basically dead ('cept the BSDs), so they [Edit: Corrected!] don't really care. I believe, thus far, it's been demonstrated thoroughly that Linux doesn't contain any UNIX code.

SCO is a useless company. They're pretty much screwed, and they have yet to prove they have any ownership rights at all. I believe, as far as the Novell agreement goes, they only have the rights to the System V name and distribution (but don't quote me on that).

[This message has been edited by Jon`C (edited January 22, 2004).]