If indeed Unix has found itself copies into Linux, AT&T seems to be more of a concern in my book. I'm somewhat conscious that IBM could be a benevolent dictator gone bad if indeed it were to purchase SCO and the Unix IP, but I am somewhat comfortable with that, since in recent years IBM has made huge efforts to play nicely in the IT World, supporting both Linux and Java to a large extent. AT&T, however, I'm not so comfortable with. AT&T has a lot of educational/research background, which is where UNIX came from, but they also have this history of dominating markets. Although IBM has become much nicer a neighbor since their whole Antitrust stuff in the 70's, I'm not sure what to think about AT&T. So what if AT&T DOES reserve the rights to UNIX IP? Does that help the LInux community? or just provide us with yet a larger behemoth to contend with over Linux Licensing?
$0.02 On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:24:51 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Don't think I'd want to take on both IBM and AT&T at the same time > | in different courtrooms, not even if I were M$. And SCO's not even > | close to that big. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-i-s.cc/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration & Support *Web Development and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
