[H-GEN] Sad day for Linux

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Wed May 28 11:23:50 EDT 2003


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On 2003-05-26, David Thorndike 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.

For those who aren't AUUG members, it may be worth reading the
press release that AUUG have just put out:

http://www.auug.org.au/publications/press/auugOnSCO_FINAL.html

And, for those who have not been paying attention, Novell have
made a counter-claim to be the owners of Unix IP:

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html

And there's a good follow-up on Slashdot including an article by
Bruce Perens:

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/28/1252229.shtml?tid=123&tid=130&tid=185&tid=190&tid=99

I don't think SCO can possibly come out of this well.

Greg

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