Re: AIX 5L & SCO lawsuits.
From: Barry Finkel (b19141_at_ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: 06/12/03
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:06:57 -0500 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>as everyone already knows, SCO in a surprising turnover threatens IBM
>with lawswits for 'infringing contract restrictions' over SCO
>proprietary Unix technologies which IBM allegedly 'delivered' into the
>Linux kernel. since these technologies probably shipped with AIX 5L --
>the L stands for 'Linux integration' AFAIK -- I would like to ask you
>what you think about SCO's arguments.
>
>SCO says that 'permission' granted to IBM for use of that technologies
>expires friday, June 13th. do we need to care about SCO's threats?
John Dvorak ("PC Magazine") treats this as the end of Linux. I do not
agree with him. A google search should point to some of his columns.
This URL
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
has the "OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint", where Eric
Raymond goes through the SCO lawsuit point-by-point explaining why
SCO is wrong in their complaint.
There is lots more on the web.
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