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Re: [tlug] A SCO letter



On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 16:16, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> And Thus Spake simon colston <simon@example.com> (on Sun, 18 May 2003
> 11:10:45 +0900):
> 
> > Godwin was talking about the O/S, the operating system.  XFree, Apache,
> > KDE, etc., are not part of the OS.
> 
> Thank you Simon. You beat me to it :)
> 
> I wonder what the initiator of the GNU project, Richard Stallman, has to say
> about SCO claiming that all the work he did was nothing but an illegal clone
> of Unix. I'd be livid!

I believe SCO is currently only looking at the Linux kernel (The IBM
case).  The bottom line is they are going after money, i.e. direct
copyright ("unauthorized derivative") infringement,because its easy to
prove.  As far as I can see SCO hasn't really said anything specifically
about GNU projects.

-- 
Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>


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