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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Apple has straddled the line... by ross_winn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...so why not SCO as well?

    --
    Ross Winn "not just another ugly face..."
  2. Death of Trees by DreadSpoon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't know about the rest of you, but I think nature is pretty swell. Forests are beautiful. Some of the best places on our planet.

    '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'.

    Do we _really_ need to encourage wholesale destruction of every tree on our planet for something so incredibly stupid as the assholes at SCO? Seriously, can't you just electronically send all that code? DVDs or something? Just a small handful of them would be all that's needed, if you need more than one at all.