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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.
Why would they do that?
Late Sunday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said acquiring the license from SCO "is representative of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property and the IT community's healthy exchange of IP through licensing
Only the minions of Satan work on Sunday
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
At least all of us Linux zealots can now say:
"See, Linux is so good, even Microsoft has seen the light and decided to license it!"
Have EVDO, will travel.
anyone else noticed?
p
:)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.as
i think they'd be more than glad to make that stfu
We all know why M$ licensed SCO. Now let's think about the future.
2003: SCO wins the court with M$ support.
2004: Linux is banned from the U.S. In Europe and other continents that don't have DMCA, Linux still flourishes.
2005: Microsoft sues the nations that use linux. The U.S supreme court supports M$ claims. The U.S offers military support to remove Linux from the nations in Axis of Evil, which by then, means rest of the world.
2006: Rest of the world gives a shit about the US claims. The plan backfires and to avoid the shame, the US has to nullify DMCA.
2007: Americans are once again free from the DMCA. Lets celebrate!
1) Get frustrated with the FUD Campaign against Linux
:)
2) License SCO IP and/or buy out beleaguered company
3) Patent "Description of Linux-like O/S here" (We all know this would probably get by the patent office, greased with lots of greenbacks)
4) Sue the pants off of anybody who runs linux as "infringers of M$ IP"
5) Profit...
See? no "..." step in this one...
Microsoft probably wants to grep the source code and diff it to Linux, to see what if any's been lifted. Inquiring minds want to know.
std::disclaimer<std::legalese> sig=new std::disclaimer; sig->dump(); delete sig;
... yeah, right. I'm sure the folks at Stac would have something interesting to say about that ongoing commitment to IP.
Or Apple, for that matter.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Sending a few dozen letters to big corporations is cheap and potentially lucrative. Does anyone have SCO's legal department's address? I'm thinking of writing to them (in French), asking them to explain fully (in French) the implications of their claims for the two Linux servers in my cybercafe, which binaries in my particular distro are affected, how they calculate the value of those binaries as a percentage of the whole, and so on and so on, and stating that if I don't hear from them in 28 days I will assume that everything is OK. If 50 million other Linux users did the same, I think they would have a problem...
Virtually serving coffee
Indeed. Inbetween dissecting aliens and space craft Microsoft seized from a crash at Roswell, testing special chemical on Gulf War veterans, aligning the Bermuda triangle, carving faces on mountains on Mars and inventing dogs that shoot bees from their mouths, Bill Gates is also covertly helping out SCO.
ALL: To Mount Doom!
~s/License/Buy/
Clippy: It looks like your replacing somthing, would you like some help?
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Back in Christ's days the romans awarded you 30 silvers when you betrayed someone. Today the romans buy a perpetual license of your product. Now that's progress!
I would be willing to bet there is quite a bit of Unix code in Windows. How else could you explain the gradual increased steadiness over the past 5 years.
You're right! There's no way a team of programmers could create a stable operating system without stealing Unix code!
SCO should just start suing anyone who produces a "stable" OS. That'll teach those fuckers!
Yeah - the presence of a directory called "etc" just PROVES they stole our code. And referring to drives using a notation "similar" to that in another OS is tantamount to admitting they lifted the whole filesystem!
Oh and that Steve Gibson? One completely trustworthy guy. I ran his "NanoProbe" scan against my box and it told me I was invisible to the world - and I believe him! And that essay he wrote on IP spoofing proves how super l33t he is. Oh look - there goes a flying pig.
Please....
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Don't forget that nearly all of the world and certainly Europe is laughing at the USA since you got this Hitler2000 thing going!
Oh shit! Is France going to withhold Brie? Please, say it's not so! Seriously, that's about the worst thing that could happen because of Europe's dislike for the US.
Well, I guess Germany could quit sending BMW's to the US, but I doubt BMW would stay in business very long.
There coding skills maxed out at that. Apparently.
We'll all be painting circles on our back lawns to show the pigs where to land. PORKAIR061, clear for landing.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
It's not political... he's just been playing Everquest too long.
But did you grep for Microsoft spelled backwards?
!seineew era sremmargorp tfosorciM
There's lots of infinging code! Check out these gems! :)
int a;
return 0;
for ( i=0; i
Get those lawyer-doggies rollin!
And, in this example alone, you can end with:
5. Profit!
Interestingly enough, your steps are exactly what the Borg do with new species. There's a reason that MS is compared to them.
I thought the solitaire game in the Caldera OS Installer looked familiar...
MS=Dr.Evil
SCO=Mini-Me