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Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-gonna-get-stranger dept.

dotnothing writes "microsoft-watch.com has an interview with Chris Stone, who is the Vice Chairman of Novell. Stone says that Novell will be introducing a Linux distribution with Novell products and the Ximian desktop, but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft. He also expressed some gratitude to Red Hat for countersuing SCO."

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  1. Please ask this question at the conference call! by yeremein · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Blake Stowell on Moglen's statement that users don't need a "copyright license":
    Copyright absolutely applies. For the same reason that a commercial user must have a valid licence to run Microsoft Word, a user must also have a valid licence to run our Unix source code.

    It was my understanding that the Microsoft EULA is the "use" license for Word--Linux customers have made no agreement with SCO.

    In addition, Stowell admits that IBM holds the copyrights to the code in question (emphasis mine):

    While IBM owns the copyrights on these derivative Unix programs, SCO owns the control rights to these and they cannot be contributed to open source. The contracts between IBM and SCO state all of this.

    Someone please ask SCO this:

    Since IBM has the copyrights to the code in question, what recourse can SCO possibly have against end-users?

    It looks to me like all they can do is go against IBM for breach of contract. But they're inventing a new kind of intellectual property, "control rights", which allow them to go against end-users, or so it looks to me.

  2. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by T-Ranger · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Stallman is a lot of things. But when it comes time to be throwing quotes from powerfull people around when discissing the future of the computer world, his name should be at the bottom of the list.

    Java might be a threat to his free software utopia that exists (only in) his mind, but in the real world its not a problem.

  3. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by Rinikusu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a poor person, I'd rather have the full loaf.

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    If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
  4. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by Tokerat · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    It's GNU/Stallman, dammit!

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