Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code

The big news of this morning is that Microsoft will evidently be licensing the Unix code that SCO carries the rights to. Yahoo! is also carrying a brief WSJ report as well. Additionally, give a read to the OSI position paper on the issue. One thing that is worth noting is that Microsoft does do *some* work with Unix - like the interoperability package - but the other side is that Microsoft deals with intellectual property a lot, and licensing is standard way of dealing with IP claims.

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Re:Why Microsoft is doing this (mod parent up)

[jkrise]

Excellent point. Last week, I made the point that IBM's trustworthiness is under test here.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64293&c id=5962 757

I also said that since MS uses BSD, they'd use this opportunity to fund SCO's lawsuit:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6429 3&cid=5962 715

I repeat my query:
What if IBM settles with SCO for a cool million? All hell breaks loose for the rest of the Open Source folks. Even if this thing goes on for a few years, the damage to Linux could be great.

Who's taking a bet : IBM settles with SCO, methinks!