On Wednesday 21 May 2003 04:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 10:57, William Brown wrote: > > On Sunday 18 May 2003 06:49 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > > On Monday 19 May 2003 00:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > And now for something completely different! > > > > > > > > http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10 > > > >0000 66 > > > > > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134724,00.html :) > > > > > > -Frans (who hasn't read all earlier mail about the SCO thing) > > > > Maybe I'm lost at sea, again, but what does this have to do with the open > > source Linux created by Linus Torvald? > > Here's everything in a nutshell: > > * SCO is once again loosing heaps of biz and money - and can't swim. > They want to claim that there's proprietary code in linux and went after > the biggest dog - IBM - go claim damages. IBM ain't even turned around > to see what's nipping at it's heels yet. Microsoft, who despises Open > Source Software and linux (which is OSS) had done the dirty dance with > SCO years ago and still have ties to SCO - and so, bought up $1 billion > worth of SCO license. If Microsoft HAS the license, it can do three > things - 1.) claim even more illegality towards OSS and linux and help > to force it off the corporate plate - OR - make sure that Windows and > linux don't play happy together by creating more proprietary ways of > dealing with information dispersal (documents, media and the likes) so > that linux doesn't have a chance to make use of such media thusly making > linux even more difficult for the public to deal with (and corporations) > - OR - they're going to start creating bits'n'bobs themselves WITH the > SCO license (they already create unix based services). Funny that, > though, a Senator from Washington is on a caucus that's aim is > supposedly to "Stop IP piracy and software piracy" - but in the true > wording they're attacking OSS and linux outright and want to make it > literally illegal... > > Does that make more sense now? I might have mucked some stuff up in > there, but that's pretty much how I tend to see it...
Thanks. Been reading all the supplied links. The Open Source page gives a clearer light. M$ is just making a power play and using SCO as a front. Unfortunately legalism and PR are the tools of the deep pockets. All the more reason to support Mandrake and others. I hope ML survives so that we all have an opportunity to escape M$ draconian practices. -- William Brown
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