And verily, didst RJack <[email protected]> hastily babble thusly: > SCO lost its meaningless copyright suit with Novell yesterday. > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 > > Here is my old 29 Dec 2007 post to this group about SCO: > > ********************************************************************* > SCO, was a really stupid company that initially released software under > the GPL. Remember SCO Linux? After discovering the folly of the GPL > business model they tried mindless litigation.
You have absolutely no grasp of the history of SCO group. SCO didn't begin with the release of SCO linux, they began as a LINUX distribution called Caldera. For many years they were a SUCCESSFUL linux distribution who aquired enough cash to BUY stuff like DRDOS and SCO. Only once they had bought SCO did they decide suddenly to start suing people over the linux they themselves had been distributing for the previous few years. > Any company that thinks that the long term capitalization of GPL > software is possible deserves to eventually go bankrupt in litigation. > Good riddance to SCO. They deserved it. The GPL has NOTHING to do with why they began litigation, they hired an utterly insane individual as CEO called Darl McBride who deluded himself and the company into believing that IBM had included THEIR property from SCO unix into the linux kernel. 5 years later and not a single line of code has been found that infringes. -- | [email protected],uk | "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | | | in | "I think so brain, but this time, you control | | Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." | _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
