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SCO vs. IBM: Will The Outcome Affect You? |
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 Recently SCO has filed a lawsuit against IBM. The suit has to do with IBM allegedly providing code from UNIX to Linux. Not just a single distribution, mind you, but the core of the OS, the Kernel. According to sources, almost all of the enhancements in the Linux 2.4 Kernel, from the 2.2 Kernel are base on these contributions from IBM.
Now SCO seems to have lost their collective minds and are trying to get corporate Linux users to pay them a licensing fee now, before the case is even settled. Wow, they've got some nerve trying to get people to pay for an OS that most of them have already purchased. However they did purchase it from a from a distributer that 1) packaged a bunch of open source software with an installer, 2) burned it on a CD and 3) put it in a box and sold it to the masses. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and the whole idea behind it, but you kind of had to see something like this coming, with all of the intellectual property issues these days.
Several of the larger Linux distributers (including SuSe and Red Hat) have already gone on record stating that they will not help their users out if SCO wins and seeks monetary retribution from them. I don't blame them as they really don't make that much money on the OS. But who can really be blamed for this mess (besides IBM), Linus? The open source community? No, I feel that this entire FUBAR-ness rests solely on the shoulders of SCO themselves! Yes, that's right, I feel SCO should have to pay every Linux user for the pain and suffering that they have caused. And what the hell, let's have 'em pay every OS X user while we're at it!
Even with the threats and seriously legal sounding arguments from SCO, the Linux Community stays calm and waits to see how everything shakes out. And don't forget, this issue has not even entered the courtroom!
But really, come on SCO, get over it! I'm not going to buy a UNIX license to use Linux. About the only real next step for them in this situation is to prevent this from happening in future Kernel releases. |
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July 23 2003, 2:03 PM EDT, by
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| HTML Samurai |
7/23/03, 2:35 PM EDT |
Here is what Linus Torvalds had to say on the matter.
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| Jonahan |
7/23/03, 4:46 PM EDT |
Samurai, SCO won't be coming after Apple will they?
I remember from your pre vious article that Open Group was going after Apple for using the term "UNIX-based", but OS X was based on BSD - which I think was free, correct?
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| Jonahan |
7/23/03, 4:47 PM EDT |
And by the way, you're a very pretty man! You've lost some weight since that pic, haven't you? :-D
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| HTML Samurai |
7/24/03, 8:16 AM EDT |
Thanks yo!
And, no, Apple has not been mentioned in anything that I have read on this topic.
However, according to this article some doosh-bag named Gartner is trying to talk companies into keeping Windows around for their "high-value or mission-critical production systems." At least he also mentioned UNIX as a Linux alternative - wow, I wonder where he got an idea like that...
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| HTML Samurai |
7/25/03, 1:53 PM EDT |
Linux use is still growing, according to this article.
"Companies realize the costs of migrating from Linux to FreeBSD at a later date, if needed, would be small, and they may feel the chance of a SCO victory is remote. "
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