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Microsoft Services for Unix and OpenBSD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.

ubiquitin writes "If you use strings on Microsoft's Services for Unix (SFU) interoperability suite which was developed by Interex you find that it is largely composed of source from the OpenBSD 3.0 source tree according to a recent deadly.org article."

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  1. Re:What's your point? by DjReagan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The point is that Microsoft claimed they were buying a SCO license so they could use it for their "Services for Unix", not as a way of bankrolling SCO's efforts to FUD linux.

    This shows that the Services for Unix aren't derived from SCO sources, and therefore MS lied.

    Or something.

    --
    "When I grow up, I want to be a weirdo"
  2. The difference between BSD and GPL licensing by martinde · · Score: 5, Informative

    MS has every right to do this with BSD licensed code. And they do with GPLed code to, but if it was GPLed code then they would have to release the source to the derivative product under the GPL.

    Note that I'm not making any statements for or against either license, or for or against MS. I'm just pointing the key the difference in these popular licenses.

  3. sweet! by holzp · · Score: 5, Funny

    does this mean Microsoft is dying?