[H-GEN] Sad day for Linux
Marco Grigull
kni501ss at optushome.com.au
Tue May 27 08:52:00 EDT 2003
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On Mon, 26 May 2003 16:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
David Thorndike <thorndy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> SCO nows says that anyone using linux without paying
> SCo a licensing fee is breaking copyright laws.
>
> And also SCO has now licensed its software to MS.
<conspirousy_theory>
If its possible that a tiny chunk of linux code resembles that of the SCO code
(by maybe even SCO having taken it from linux sources) AND M$ have been
stealing GNU code, then at least microsoft will be protected from SCO's
backlash (in the event that they did happen to also copy that bit of code in
question)....
</conspirousy_theory>
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