Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL

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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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*Yawn* by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 15:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Good thing I run Windows.
Re:really now by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 15:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The Borg?! Oh no! They'll kill us all unless The Picard can save. Save us, The Picard! Save us!
So... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 15:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I once knew some dude who picked his nose so hard that it bleeded.
Re:haiku by j0nkatz · 2003-06-23 15:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They will dye Linux will live lond and prosper?

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Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
SCOGIRL! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 16:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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1. Re:SCOGIRL! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 17:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  OK, I give up... what the hell is that supposed to be a picture of?
  
  Note that I phrased the question in the same retarded, non-syntactiacaly correct way that Darl McBride would.
2. Re:SCOGIRL! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-23 17:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Are you sure you really want to know? Its the ASCII version of tubgirl.
  
  If you have your barf bag ready and gun to shoot yourself with, You have been duly warned
foist proust by integral_anomaly · 2003-06-23 17:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

foist proust ??
SCO unixware 7 by pair-a-noyd · 2003-06-23 18:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Welcome to SCO's UnixWare 7.1.3 download area
file: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/713/README

Located in this directory are patches and supplements
specific to SCO's UnixWare 7.1.3 product.

Device Drivers for UnixWare 7.1.3 can be found
at:

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers

Security patches for UnixWare 7.1.3 can be found at:

http://www.sco.com/support/security/

What's New
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On 10-MAY-03: ./ptf9000c - xAPIC supplement for support of the
IBM xSeries 440 and IBM xSeries 360

ptf9000b - The xAPIC Supplement for IBM xSeries 440 has been
removed and is superseded by ptf9000c

On 06-MAY-03: ./uw713pk - This directory contains Maintenance Pack 2 for
UnixWare 7.1.3

On 30-APR-03: ./uw713up - This directory contains Update Pack 1 for UnixWare 7.1.3

DRIVERS:
-------

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/audio - Audio Drivers
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/g raphics - Graphics Drivers
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/n etwork - Network Drivers
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7//drivers/ storage - Host Bus Adapters Drivers

MAJOR SUPPLEMENTS:
-----------------
./uw713pk - UnixWare 7.1.3 Maintenance Pack 2 (posted 06-MAY-03) ./uw713up - UnixWare 7.1.3 Update Pack 1 (posted 30-APR-03)

Open Source packages
--------------------
./opensrc - This directory contains open source packages
that have been ported to run on native UnixWare
and are provided with UnixWare 7.1.3. SCO provides
these source files in compliance with the GPL License
for these open source packages.

PATCHES:
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Filenames size and sum Title ./ptf9000c - This directory contains the xAPIC Supplement for support of
the IBM xSeries 440 and IBM xSeries 360

For: UnixWare 7.1.3
UnixWare 7.1.3 with UnixWare 7.1.3 Maintenance Pack 1

Filenames:

ptf9000c.Z 145401 (09385) pkgadd image
ptf9000c.boot1.img 1474560 (46172) Boot Image Volume 1
ptf9000c.boot2.img 1474560 (63300) Boot Image Volume 2
ptf9000c.txt 3888 (12295) Documentation