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OSI vs SCO
the jackol writes "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.""
Once again postings like this prove that Slashdot is full of CS graduates and home "experts" who wouldn't know true corporate computing environments if they slapped them in the face. Of course people use AIX.
___FutureShoks___
I know you're being sarcastic, and I think your parent is an ignorant fool too, but as it happens, IBM doesn't bundle AIX with its mainframes either.
If it was your IP being stolen you'd do exactly what SCO is doing!
If you want to live in a world that doesn't respect the intellectual property of the individual or of a company then you can always live in North Korea or Cuba.
Like it or lump it, if I develop or buy something that's worth cash and pays to keep food in my stomach, and someone, based on their convictions, decides to gives it away for free... well, thats plain criminal...
If Linux does contain SCO IP then Linux can burn in hell like the theiving dog that it is.
This is not a matter of religous zealotry, it a matter of plain theft!