Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Fargusson.Alan
know that SUN negotiated a deal ware they paid a flat fee, and no longer pay per copy. I would think that HP, and IBM would do the same. -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on SCO

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-09 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Fargusson.Alan wrote: This is a very good question. I suspect it will take a lawyer to figure out exactly what SCO got, but I think that Novell thinks they only got the source code for UnixWare, and the right to re-sell UnixWare. On the other hand, Novell may be wrong.

More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Lionel Dyck
This is a worthwhile read http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030605.html Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Dreger
Very interesting. Ken At 12:49 PM 6/6/2003 -0700, you wrote: This is a worthwhile read http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030605.html Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
This is most interesting. Here's a rather funny question that's been kicking around in my pointy head for a couple of weeks: If SCO doesn't own the rights to Unix, as Novell claims, than what was it that Microsoft purchased from SCO? On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:15, Ken Dreger wrote: Very

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
A proxy in the war against Linux. -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on SCO and Linux This is most interesting. Here's a rather funny question that's been kicking

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on SCO and Linux This is most interesting. Here's a rather funny question that's been kicking around in my pointy head for a couple of weeks: If SCO doesn't own the rights to Unix, as Novell claims

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 03:49, you wrote: This is a worthwhile read http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030605.html With salt. ... the only version of Linux that includes any IBM authorship claim is for the S/390 mainframes. What about JFS, the IBM OMNI driver project (alright, not kernel),

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 03:49, you wrote: This is a worthwhile read http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31086.html -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the Linux Support by Small Businesses list at

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2003-06-07 at 00:54, John Summerfield wrote: What about JFS, the IBM OMNI driver project (alright, not kernel), Thinkpad other drivers, rs6000, pci hotplug - I've picked a few addresses out of the 2.4 kernel's MAINTAINERS list. Almost certainly there are IBMers involved who are not