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OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 10, 2003 @08:51AM from the well-there's-a-shocker dept.

viewstyle writes "Just when you had heard enough, the ongoing controversy about SCO vs. Linux has popped up over at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). According to Eweek's story, the panelists agreed that SCO is targeting companies like IBM in an attempt to raise cash. Most importantly: "if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go.""

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Just like... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-10 08:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Spike Lee suing Viacom over the Spike TV name, and, gosh, he happened to settle when he got a TV deal from Viacom owned network Showtime.
Yeah it's the money.... by Iron+Monkey543 · 2003-07-10 08:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but it's used to pay for Stephen Hawking's cover charge
No way! by NaugaHunter · 2003-07-10 09:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Enron used child labor? Those bastards!

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Re:IP problems of Linux well known to Unix experts by CoolVibe · 2003-07-10 09:36 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Mac OS X has been based on BSD for the following reason: OS X is actually a very new version of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/etc. The original *STEP versions ran on a Mach microkernel with a 4.4BSD personality. So Jobs chose BSD because the old NEXT stuff ran on BSD, so to speak. This has, well, absolutely nothing to do with the SCO suit.