Re: M$ licenses Unix
I thought the USL settled the IP issues with BSD a long time ago.
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On Thu, 22 May 2003, nate wrote:
> > On 20 May 2003 21:45:33 +0200,
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> > Which makes me just curiouser. Where are the BSD's in all this?
> > It seems that they're immune from the SCO suit.
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> immune perhaps only because SCO hasn't named them(yet)
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> until the evidence actually comes out as to what is in violation..
> it's really impossible to tell.
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> I find it unlikely that IBM would have their AIX coders work on linux,
> that would be pretty stupid, it is more likely that they hired new
> people to work on the kernel and these folks had absolutely no access to
> the AIX source code.
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> just because the functionality is the same doesn't mean the code was
> copied, but that doesn't rule out patent violations, in which case
> the BSDs could easily be in violation depending on what the hell in
> linux is in violation.
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> my info may be out of date, if someone knows of where SCO has posted
> specifics as to what is in violation lemme know please!
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