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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.
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.
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...
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. --
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.
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!
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.
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.