Chris Travers wrote: > I am not sure where SCO is coming from or where its influences are. > However, I have noticed a number of interesting issues which makes me think > that this is a major problem at SCO which goes back quite a ways. > > I remember Ransom Love (former Caldera CEO) writing that the GPL was bad for > business. At the time Caldera was a has-been Linux distributor who was > facing declining sales in part because they had never embraced > redistributable distros and was being crowded out by RedHat and others. > Caldera at the time was trying to sell per seat licenses for its Linux > distro and justifying this by bundling it with proprietary development > tools. Love left Caldera after they acquired the OS division of Tarantella > (formerly SCO) and headed the UnitedLinux project for a while. Sometime > afterward, Caldera renamed itself as The SCO Group.
I am not sure you can call Love wrong in his GPL comments. Isn't this what Red Hat is moving to with their Enterprise release? I don't think that is distributable. You can have the source and compile your own, but I don't think you can distribute the Red Hat binaries anymore. Is that correct? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
