Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating to

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 06/18/03

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>

     BSDsettlement agreement
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    also note that this is actually "caldera" and not the SCO of Xenix fame.

    On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:

    >
    > :> Here's one of the many press releases that a google search turned up:
    > :>
    > :> http://www.daemon.org/bsd-releases/misc/USL-lawsuit
    > :
    > :and here is the other:
    > :
    > :http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bsdi/bsdisuit.htm
    > :
    > :--
    > :Greetings
    > :
    > :Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
    >
    > The best statement that I've read so far vis-a-vie the SCO litigation is
    > the OSI group's position paper on the matter. It doesn't focus on the
    > USL lawsuit but it gives a really good overview of the whole situation,
    > and it brings up the fact that AT&T was caught red-handed taking code
    > from BSD, removing the copyrights, and putting their own on, which
    > severely taints the efficacy of any IP claims made based on the SysV
    > code.
    >
    > SCO is basically trying to inflate its own importance and the importance
    > of its SysV copyrights and the contributions SysV made to the history
    > of unix, and all public statements SCO makes are done with that in mind.
    > It's unfortunate that the press feels (generally, not BYTE specifically)
    > that it must turn the whole thing into high entertainment.
    >
    > http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
    >
    > -Matt
    >
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