exeter_acres Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 SCO is warning that the "legal liability for the use of Linux may extend to commercial users," according to a Computerworld report. SCO has already sued IBM for more than $1 billion over intellectual property rights to Unix, which it alleges are misused in Linux. Background: SCO owns Unix, which it got from Novell, which got it from AT&T, which created it. "Linux" is a copy of Unix. The creation of "Linux" was started by Richard Stallman, long before Linus Torvalds came along, because he wanted a free operating system. This kick-started the free software movement, which was later renamed "open source" in order to get rid of the ethical and moral dimensions and make it more appealing to big businesses. Comment: SCO's lawsuits must be considered a threat because: (a) America's intellectual property regulations are insane; and (B) the system is run by incompetents. However, hackers in garages can feel safe: there's never been much mileage in suing people who don't have any money. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 To bad SCO only actually owns a small part of Unix, not the whole thing. You might enjoy this: http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html Also, since they brought it up, Richard Stallman started the GNU movement in 80-something... Linus Torvalds started a personal project, which was almost a Unix clone.. he asked usenet groups for some help, it became a big thing then, and the name was given Linux, after the guy that started it, Linus. Linux is was GNU aimed to be. Might as well be saying that SCO owns Apple, since Apple is NeXT, which is Unix... and since Windows came based off Apple, I guess SCO should own Microsoft too, huh? Heck... that'd mean Lindows, FreeBSD (which is based on BSD which came from LBNL), and all of the other GNU would be owned my SCO. Right? It's all about the $$, nothing more. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 I agree 100%..... CEO's are sitting in their offices thinking about ways to rape the general public for more money and you know that open source just pi$$es them off!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 bah these lawsuits are all mexican.... I'd laugh if they actually tried coming after distro's of linux or even after Apple or Microsoft.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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