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SCO warns Linux may be 'illegal'
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| ghaouf 2003-05-17, 12:44 pm |
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SCO, the owner of the Unix operating system, has announced that it considers 'Linux ... an unauthorised derivative of UNIX' and has warned commercial users of Linux that they may be legally liable for its use. The company has also declared that it is suspending all future sales of its own version of Linux until the matter concerning copyright is resolved.
This bombshell from SCO follows its recent lawsuit against IBM which alleges that Big Blue unlawfully passed proprietary Unix code to the Linux community.
The company has sent a letter to Linux customers warning them of their actions and promising to 'take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing violation of our intellectual property or other rights'.
It also goes on to admit that its actions may prove 'unpopular'. It can say that again. At the time of writing, the Linux community Web site Slashdot.org had posted some 985 messages relating to the action, many of which pour vitriol on SCO's litigious stance.
Certainly if SCO's plan is to scupper it's own SCO Linux and Caledera OpenLinux products in favour of Unix, it is going about it the right way. Many people who believe in the aims of open source software have expressed disgust at the way in which SCO is apparently bent on destroying the only serious competitor to Microsoft Windows.
SCO says it will continue to support its existing SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux user base and promises they won't be sued in the event of the court case going SCO's way.
Instead SCO plans to concentrate on its core Unix product and its recently announced Web services, SCOx.
you can also View: Interview with SCO's Chris Sontag regarding this issue. here | |
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| ghaouf 2003-05-18, 11:40 am |
| SCO is sueing it self | |
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| Boulware5 2003-05-20, 4:46 pm |
| Shame on you SCO. Ya know, we may eventually see a MICROSOFT Linux distribution. *shivers* | |
| prezbedard 2003-05-20, 9:12 pm |
| Here is another article. One note in this quote:
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In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar case against IBM, alleging that parts of this same code have been unauthorisedly used by Big Blue in its Linux business.
The word unauthorisedly is not even a word. It seemed peculiar and I looked it up and the word is not in the dictionary.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003...3196620180.html | |
| prezbedard 2003-05-20, 9:17 pm |
| Another intresting bit of info I didn't know about from Slashdot
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"As expected, the OSI's just given the SCO vs IBM case a bite with this position paper. "SCO has never owned the UNIX trademark. IBM neither requested nor required SCO's permission to call their AIX offering a Unix. That decision lies not with the accidental owner of the historical Bell Labs source code, but with the Open Group."
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| jgribble 2003-05-27, 7:10 pm |
| SCO may be doing this for the money, but it will turn around and bite them in the end when it leaves a bad taste in mouths of IT.
Next thing you know, they will announce they have been bought by MS, and they are brining back Xenox!
Linus even offered to find out where the illegal code came from if SCO would just say what the illegal code is. |
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