SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems

Vicegrip writes "Apparently Sun not only bought extra licenses from SCO, but also obtained the option to buy a nice stake in the company: 'The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.'" A reader points out Ransom Love's 2000 Linuxworld keynote speech.

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Re:How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux?

[Lord_Dweomer]

Your link to the original article does not work. Also, it is kind of disgusting that you can karmawhore just by posting in its entirety someone elses well thought out joke. Even if you do post a broken link giving credit to the original author, its pretty pathetic.

why not?

[twitter]

Most of the Linux hardware drivers are GPL. To use them SUN would need to change the license of their kernel to something GPL friendly.

Why don't they do this? They give you operating systems on demand anyway. Part of their support is that they do that just about forever. In any case, why would they be adverse to a few free modules that work with their closed kernels? You would think Sun would be happy to have people writing software for their hardware and OS, isn't that what the Sun Community License all about?