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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday June 9, 2004 @12:34AM from the the-change-of-the-times dept.

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'."

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Re:and.... by cgenman · 2004-06-09 00:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

Sorry to be so negative, but I haven't had much of a reason to think that Sun is on "our side" when it comes to open source software.

Right. Because Sun has never contributed any useful piece of code to be OPEN. OFFICErs at the company are gnome for their lack of contribution to any real groupzilla.

Know your roots.

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Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-09 01:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

Source available is not the same as open source.