Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL

Posted by timothy on Monday June 23, 2003 @03:06PM from the what-part-of-non-discriminatory-don't-you-understand dept.

hobsonchoice writes "SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers won't be sued. The same does not seem to apply if using a non-SCO distribution such as RedHat." LightSail points to the SCO letter itself, and raises an interesting point: "If they approve the use of 'their' IP in Linux in a single kernel, then the GPL holds that IP SCO allows to be used by a select few must be freely released to any and all. It appears that all Linux users everywhere were just given a license to continued use of Linux even if SCO would win their suit with IBM." And Haikuu writes "eWeek recently posted an interview conducted by e-mail exchange with Linus Torvalds regarding his recent move to the OSDL and the SCO suit."

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Re:SCO thinks the GPL is a joke by Malcontent · 2003-06-23 17:41 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Does it really matter? Isn't the fact that MS is willing to support windows one of it's selling points?

People buy windows because they can get support for it, why should they be pissed off if someone tells them to call Microsoft and get support for it?

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