SCO Says No Way To a GPL Solaris, Moves Trial Back

penguino writes "Looks like it didn't take long for SCO to formally respond to claims by Sun that it will open source Solaris. According to SCO 'they [Sun] still have licence restrictions that would prevent them from contributing our licensed works wholesale to the GPL'. The company has also released a statement dated June 8 that 'SCO is making a motion to move the scheduled trial date to September 2005 and split IBM's counterclaims into a separate case'. Also quoted is AUUG president and FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey who recommends 'that the best thing for IBM to do would be to print out every single version as requested and send the resultant 20 tonnes or so of paper to SCO. That would keep them quiet for a while'."

Comments

Re:Reverse

[danormsby]

So in summary...

Sun goes up
Sun goes down
Sun goes up
Sun goes down

Just doing what the name calls for.

Shipping

[Piranhaa]

When you mentioned the smartest thing IBM could do would be shipping those 20 tonnes of paper to SCO, you should have added shipping it via COD ;)

Addendum to the Lehey's recommendation

[eXtro]

Greg Lehey who recommends 'that the best thing for IBM to do would be to print out every single version as requested and send the resultant 20 tonnes or so of paper to SCO. That would keep them quiet for a while'."

I would like to add that the 20 tonnes of paper be dropped without a parachute from a C130 Hercules onto SCO and Darl McBride.

Re:Sun will Shine at the Big Blue

[MartinG]

Have you any clue as to how many years more advanced than Linux Solaris is at the high end?

Go on then, enlighten us.

Print it on rolls

[hussar]

They should print the source code on rolls of paper about six inches wide and four in diameter. It'll make reusing the paper after the trial much easier...

Hmmm...squeeze-ably soft source code!

Re:Reverse

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun goes down

You just gave me an image of McNealy that I *really* didn't need bright and early in the morning.

Re:Reverse

[TopShelf]

If you look here, the story looks more like:

Sun goes down
Sun goes down
Sun goes down
Sun hits the bottom and slides along...

Hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO? That thing is still aroung?

Re:Sun will Shine at the Big Blue

[mwood]

Huh? Sun owns nothing. SCO owns all code written in, on, for, next to, or in the same county with any version of Unix since the beginning of time. Haven't you been reading their press releases?

Re:Hmmm

[Cpyder]

Source available is not the same as open source.

No, it's even better. ;)

Better Idea

[carlos_benj]

...FreeBSD developer Greg Lehey who recommends 'that the best thing for IBM to do would be to print out every single version as requested and send the resultant 20 tonnes or so of paper to SCO. That would keep them quiet for a while'.

Or better yet, fax it to them via a bank of fax modems and let them pay for the paper...

Re:How Sun Might be able to do this

[_Sprocket_]

In SCO's own little world, their license is so "viral" that the GPL looks like public domain next to it.

Which is kind of amusing since SCO (McBride) has claimed that the GPL is both viral and public domain at different times.

no mistake

[bstadil]

Schwartz said: Make no mistake

Schwartz will do that for you.