Off-topic posts (was: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...)

2003-01-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 18:55:12 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Could we now please take this off -questions? Continue on advocacy@ >> if you want. > > I already started and finished my thread on -chat, joining this > thread only after

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which secret agreements? The license is public, and it doesn't leave > any space for secret agreements. The secret agreements which presumably allowed UCB and BSDi to continue using Unix code without getting sued over it. Permission which I've n

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 11:51:44 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>> I'm more inclined to think that these are different parts of the same >>> company who don't (didn't) know about the other part. >> >> Another strong

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > I'm more inclined to think that these are different parts of the same > > company who don't (didn't) know about the other part. > > Another strong possibility. Happens all the time. Not this time. The reports are quoting

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 11:47:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: I don't expect anything to come of this. It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could they hope to accomplish?

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 11:47:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>> I don't expect anything to come of this. >> >> It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. > > That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could > they hope to accomplish? I don't know. May

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Lehey wrote: I don't expect anything to come of this. It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. That's probably their entire goal. After all, what else could they hope to accomplish? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 23 January 2003 at 19:01:30 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: > >>McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile >>attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether >>Windows, Mac OS X, Lin

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread John Martinez
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 08:34 PM, mikel king wrote: I suppose one could speculate that FreeBSD could even benefit from such actions. While Linux, MAC OSX, and whomever else these guy point the finger at are battleing it out in court; FreeBSD could quietly move ahead... I would g

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread mikel king
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix intellect

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: >McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile >attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether >Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix >intellectual property it

trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread mikel king
I just read an article on eWeek about SCO's new SCOx server platform thingie...and tucked away near the bottom of the first page is the follow statement: McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows