SCO declares war on Linux (A study in self-immolation)
Tom Buskey
tom at buskey.name
Thu May 15 12:45:35 EDT 2003
Jerry Feldman wrote:
>(From the Inquirer)
>A study in self-immolation
>
>By Egan Orion: Thursday 15 May 2003, 10:27
>"Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
>That this foul deed shall smell above the earth..."
>-- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
>
>HAVING FINALLY READ the GNU General Public License all the way through,
>SCO Group today announced that it is suspending Linux sales.
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9506
>
>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-14-2003/0001947129&EDATE=
>
>
>I thought it was interesting that SCO would sue IBM, but this seems to
>be bizarre. I think that the Inquirer's subhead is quite appropriate.
>For one, this kind of hurts United Linux (since SCO was one part of it),
>but I'm wondering what affect this will have on the Linux community in
>general.
>My thoughts are:
>1. It will not affect most of the techies who have been on the Linux
>bandwagon for a while. (And, I don't think that the techie crowd was
>altogether fond of SCO/Caldera in the first place).
>2. Commerial users of Linux. There are some state and local governments
>in the US as well as governments elsewhere in the world using (or
>planning to use) Linux.
>3. BSD Unix.
>
>
SCO released Caldera under the GPL. Any code of thiers released with
Caldera is under the GPL. So if the alleged infringes were in Caldera,
SCO has put them under the GPL.
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