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SCO Includes OS Products In OpenServer 6

Posted by Zonk on from the use-it-if-its-good dept.

William Robinson writes "In a bid to be friendly with Open Source, SCO has included 7 OS products in their Unix product. Among the included packages are MySQL, PostgreSQL, Samba, Apache, Tomcat, and FireFox. SCO's position is consistent, spokesman Blake Stowell argued. 'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't' he said."

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  1. Re:Of course they're consistent by njcoder · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Definately not pro SCO but don't see this as much of a story. Congrats to getting a somewhat intelligent first post but Linux is a type of Open Source/Free Software. Linux != Open Source/Free Software. The GPL is a type of Open Source License. GPL != All Open Source software. There is a whole world of Open Source outside of the GPL.

    Of the open source products SCO is distributing I'm pretty sure only MySQL is GPL'd.

    It doesn't matter how wrong someone like SCO is, making nonsensical arguments against them doesn't help.

    With the exception that they made anti GPL noises and not just anti Linux, I don't see the quote as completely innacurate.

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