Re: M$ licenses Unix (Summary)
--- Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 00:49, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net
> wrote:
> > Can someone summarise this?
>
> MS is licensing the code which it once owned. They
> licensed Unix from
> AT&T Bell Labs, then portd it to many platforms and
> called it Xeinix.
> Then the IBM PC came and they sold their Unix
> business all to a company
> called SCO and SCO renamed it to OpenServer or
> something like that.
> Now, they are licensing back their code. And with
> this they are helping
> SCO not go bankrupt, and stand against IBM in the
> court.
>
> Summary !
Excellent historical summary above
But there is more,
In this process, SCO may have mixed in GNU code. SCO
sues companies distributing Linux/GNU code fully
realizing that this mixing has probably went both
ways. This whole SCO suet is probably a protective
move so that M$ can use SCO code without fear that it
is tainted by GNU code.
Summary :)
M$ buys GNU code and claims the GNU code came from M$.
Final Summary,
Microsoft wants to throw legal issues in to GNU code,
so that they are the only bully left standing in the
playground.
-tim.
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