Steven T. Hatton wrote:
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On Thursday 11 March 2004 10:42 pm, Art Fore wrote:
Don't know where you have been hiding, but that is old news. If you want all of the info, go to www.groklaw.net
I've just been very busy, and haven't been keeping up with anything but the releases of the KDE, and the CVS of a few things such as KDevelop.
Art
I /was/ kind of hoping for the 'executive summery'. I guess I'll try to look into it when I find time.
Here's a "summary". SCO is failing. They get the bright idea that they own anything that's connected to Unix. You wrote it? Tough, it's theirs. They've even laid claim to IBM's JFS, which was originally developed for OS/2! However, since it was later ported to Unix (AIX) they own it. This is despite the fact that AT&T specifically excluded software written by others from the derivative rights. They also cancelled IBM's licence to include Unix in AIX, because of misuse of "trade secrets", which really weren't secret, because SCO (Caldera) previously released them. They're also claiming the GNU licence is invalid, but use stuff licenced under it. They're also sueing Dailmer Chrysler and another company for licence violations. Claim Computer Associates bought a licence, but CA says they didn't etc. They're also apparently being bankrolled, directly or indirectly by MS.