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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.
Me too. I submitted it 5 hours ago when it showed up in Google News.
There is a very good paper by Eric Raymond from OSI about the SCO-vs-IBM-vs-world case.
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
Where is the US Govt? The US Govt uses Linux and UNIX in its operations and in some areas is actively looking at alternatives to MS. This is against US Govt. interests and should be stopped by the US Govt. If this isn't a blatant ANTITRUST move then I don't know what is. MS, if they get such close access to the UNIX IP, will use it not in a benign manner, but in an attempt to get Linux out of the market by making it so expensive with penalties that they will essentially be the cheaper alternative. Even if they are just licensing the IP, that will be the first step to a purchase of it since that is what the SCO jerks want, to be acquired (aka paid off).
I hope that the Linux kernel developers are scanning the code to ensure that no UNIX code is in there so as to rob MS of it's plan. I for one can't see how they can make such an issue (for how long now?) without showing WHICH code is affected??
You watch, unless IBM or someone quickly acquires SCO, then MS will be the one to acquire them and then you watch what happens, unless the US Govt gets off it's keester and DOES SOMETHING!! This is a blatant attempt at antitrust and a slap in the face to the whole antitrust process, and they are so brazen.
If anything good were to come out of this it would be that the Linux developers purge the Linux code of anything non Linux, if it was ever in there , and that the Govt takes another look at antitrust with rgards to MS. It is quite obvious that they will never learn and they will never play nice unless and until the Great Satan of Software (C. The Register) is broken up into tiny litle parts that can do no harm to the larger market.
Microsoft anti innovation canot allow to go unchecked anymore.
Don't forget the possible boost for SCO's stock price.
Would be interesting to see who offloads the stock if the price rises as a result of this.
they'd be retarded not to replace their obviously inferior kernel with Unix. C'mon, hop on the bandwagon; all your friends are doing it.
Dude! Do you have nothing better to do?
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