RE: Unix vs Linux - Round 1

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently, SCO plans on suing all of those companies too. 

What I find ridiculous, is that didn't these Unix rights when they were 
most recentlyacquired by SCO, get sold for just a few million dollars?  If 
IBM had this old licensing agreement out there for AIX, they were pretty 
stupid to have not just bought it all up.

Mark







"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: John Myers - MM
>
> SCO Sues IBM For $1B In Intellectual Property Fight
>
> The scary part is that on June13, IBM can lose its ability to sell AIX !

<yawn>

SCO says that IBM can't include AIX code in Linux.  Okee dokee.  That 
means
that whatever pieces came from AIX have to be rewritten.

Let's see here... of all the companies in the world, which is the one most
likely to be able to rewrite sections of an operating system?  (You get
three guesses, and the first two don't count.)

So yeah, it's a nuisance.  And a painful nuisance at that, more along the
line of root canal rather than a cavity.  But not insuperable.  And it's 
got
the potential to completely bury the SCO Unix market, because if you're a
manager of any sort of SCO Unix shop, you are now in a position where a
company whom you have no dealings with whatsoever can put your vendor out 
of
business (and has proven that they are willing to do so).

So you go to Linux (which will thrill IBM once they've rewritten the SCO
liable pieces) or something like FreeBSD.  Or who knows?  Maybe you decide
you want to go to a real operating system and you go with OS/400 <grin>.

Joe

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