On Sunday 28 May 2006 15:08, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
And the Linux world did very well in interpreting the status.
As of May 2003? Sort of. But as of March 2003? No!
In Ransom Love's 2003 fall interview with eWeek, he pegged it 100% like I, Cox, ESR and even Linus himself _knew_.
IBM _killed_ a _very_ pro-Linux company. Why? Because they were going to take away from their non-Linux sales.
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991464.html The article was written March 6, 2003 "We are alleging they have contaminated their Linux work with inappropriate knowledge from Unix," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president of operating systems at SCO and head of the company's SCOsource effort to make more money from its intellectual property. [...] SCO hasn't sued other companies that have Linux products--for example, Red Hat or SuSE, but Sontag didn't rule out such actions. <end quote> Now, can this thread please DIE