Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code 817
The big news of this morning is that Microsoft will evidently be licensing the Unix code that SCO carries the rights to. Yahoo! is also carrying a brief WSJ report as well. Additionally, give a read to the OSI position paper on the issue. One thing that is worth noting is that Microsoft does do *some* work with Unix - like the interoperability package - but the other side is that Microsoft deals with intellectual property a lot, and licensing is standard way of dealing with IP claims.
A choice buy (Score:2, Funny)
Why would they do that?
Deweasler output (Score:3, Funny)
Deweasler output:
"See? Those Linux guys don't care about IP and we do! The Linux guys are nothing but a bunch of pirates! That's why you shouldn't use Linux!"
Damn (Score:5, Funny)
I hate Monday's.
MS Buys SCO... (Score:2, Funny)
T'is evil (Score:5, Funny)
Only the minions of Satan work on Sunday
To put a good spin on this... (Score:5, Funny)
"See, Linux is so good, even Microsoft has seen the light and decided to license it!"
from the "services for unix" link (Score:0, Funny)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.as
i think they'd be more than glad to make that stfu
What lies beneath.. (Score:0, Funny)
2003: SCO wins the court with M$ support.
2004: Linux is banned from the U.S. In Europe and other continents that don't have DMCA, Linux still flourishes.
2005: Microsoft sues the nations that use linux. The U.S supreme court supports M$ claims. The U.S offers military support to remove Linux from the nations in Axis of Evil, which by then, means rest of the world.
2006: Rest of the world gives a shit about the US claims. The plan backfires and to avoid the shame, the US has to nullify DMCA.
2007: Americans are once again free from the DMCA. Lets celebrate!
Strategic Victory for M$ (Score:5, Funny)
2) License SCO IP and/or buy out beleaguered company
3) Patent "Description of Linux-like O/S here" (We all know this would probably get by the patent office, greased with lots of greenbacks)
4) Sue the pants off of anybody who runs linux as "infringers of M$ IP"
5) Profit...
See? no "..." step in this one...
Re:RTFA (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft is effectively bankrolling SCO's laws (Score:5, Funny)
"ongoing commitment"... (Score:5, Funny)
Or Apple, for that matter.
Another way to fight (Score:2, Funny)
Sending a few dozen letters to big corporations is cheap and potentially lucrative. Does anyone have SCO's legal department's address? I'm thinking of writing to them (in French), asking them to explain fully (in French) the implications of their claims for the two Linux servers in my cybercafe, which binaries in my particular distro are affected, how they calculate the value of those binaries as a percentage of the whole, and so on and so on, and stating that if I don't hear from them in 28 days I will assume that everything is OK. If 50 million other Linux users did the same, I think they would have a problem...
Re:Is anybody surprised by this move??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is anybody surprised by this move??? (Score:5, Funny)
ALL: To Mount Doom!
Re:so, they screamed loud enough? (Score:5, Funny)
Clippy: It looks like your replacing somthing, would you like some help?
Historical perspective (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft has been using a lot of UNIX code (Score:5, Funny)
I would be willing to bet there is quite a bit of Unix code in Windows. How else could you explain the gradual increased steadiness over the past 5 years.
You're right! There's no way a team of programmers could create a stable operating system without stealing Unix code!
SCO should just start suing anyone who produces a "stable" OS. That'll teach those fuckers!
Re:Microsoft has been using a lot of UNIX code (Score:3, Funny)
Oh and that Steve Gibson? One completely trustworthy guy. I ran his "NanoProbe" scan against my box and it told me I was invisible to the world - and I believe him! And that essay he wrote on IP spoofing proves how super l33t he is. Oh look - there goes a flying pig.
Please....
Re:US Legal Opinion Carries weight EVERYWHERE... (Score:1, Funny)
Oh shit! Is France going to withhold Brie? Please, say it's not so! Seriously, that's about the worst thing that could happen because of Europe's dislike for the US.
Well, I guess Germany could quit sending BMW's to the US, but I doubt BMW would stay in business very long.
Re:No big deal (Score:5, Funny)
Illegal use of history and common knowledge. Five yard penalty against the defense!
Re:MS code in Solaris (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wrong. It's the end of enterprise free software (Score:5, Funny)
We'll all be painting circles on our back lawns to show the pigs where to land. PORKAIR061, clear for landing.
Re:Is anybody surprised by this move??? (Score:1, Funny)
Thorough check for MS code in Solaris (Score:4, Funny)
!seineew era sremmargorp tfosorciM
Re:RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
There's lots of infinging code! Check out these gems! :)
int a;
return 0;
for ( i=0; i
Get those lawyer-doggies rollin!
Re:Microsoft only buys what it needs (Score:5, Funny)
5. Profit!
Interestingly enough, your steps are exactly what the Borg do with new species. There's a reason that MS is compared to them.
Now it all makes sense... (Score:2, Funny)
MS=Dr.Evil
SCO=Mini-Me