And Coherent!
No, SCO has lost it, and lost all chance of ever regaining the trust of anyone
with the barest skerrick of knowledge of Unix history.
I checked out an interesting web site:
http://www.robotwisdom.com/linux/nonnix.html
I had no idea that cloning Unix had gotten off to such an early start - Idris
from Plauger et al., Cromix from Cromemco, Yourdon's Omnix, Oasis, etc.
SCO hasn't got a leg to stand on - on the other hand, are those toenails I see
stuck in its teeth?
Wesley Parish
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:02, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
--- Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:49:05AM -0700, Kenneth
Stailey wrote:
Well, if SCO is claiming intellecutal property rights to Linux, why
are they intimating that they will sue Linus?
This is becoming an alternate reality.
Warren
When we find out that there's SCO code in Cygwin call me. ;)
The chart is a good way to confuse things. The poor guy that made the
original must be crying that he let SCO use it years ago.
The part that confuses me is that I remember there were dotted lines one on
the original UNIX history chart that showed non-source-code-copying
influences and now even the real UNIX history chart is using only solid
lines. It makes MINIX look like it has 7th Ed code in it instead of just
being a 7th Ed API implementation from scratch like it is.
That's the part that's really on drugs by the time SCO is using it as
evidence that there is a Linux pedigree or whatever that connects 7th Ed to
Linux.
I think the real story is that they want to make as much press as they can
since it boosts their stock.
Meanwhile every time they say they own UNIX they are complete liars because:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html
As the owners of the UNIX operating system, it is incumbent upon SCO to
To what? Violate their agreements with The Open Group?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/23/1053585678840.html
"Reference to the SCO web site shows that they own certain intellectual
property and that they correctly attribute the trademark to The Open Group.
SCO has never owned "UNIX". SCO is licensed to use the registered
trademark UNIX "on and in connection" with their products that have been
certified by The Open Group, as are all other licensees," the statement
said.
"These are the only circumstances in which a licensee may use the trademark
UNIX on and in connection with its products. Statements that SCO 'owns the
UNIX operating system', has 'licensed UNIX to XYZ' are clearly inaccurate
and misleading."
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