On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote: [stuff deleted]
I wish IBM could just buy them already and Open Source all the System V code.
[sig deleted] Well, with everything that I am reading, I am not sure that IBM purchasing SCO would allow them to Open Source System V. It seems that Novell is claiming that they still own parts, and maybe AT&T is thinking the same thing. It seems that possibly a big part of this suit will be for the courts to determine who actually owns what. It may turn out that SCO spent a lot of money for almost nothing (which would just break my heart NOT). What are the ramifications of that however? It would change the future for SCO (like they would go away almost immediately), but would someone else the spring the same suit against IBM, SGI, or who else? It might actually work out best for Linux if the courts determined that SCO owns System V and that SCO themselves tainted the code (thus GPL'ing the part that they are sueing over) and that would put them under then also. Of course the other scenario is that SCO devulges what code is suspect (early in the trial) and the kernel gurus start re-writing code immediately. Then the outcome of the trial would really have a limited effect as by the time this trial will be over, the entire kernel could be re-written from the ground up most likely. So, it turns out that SCO owns 2.4.x, but we are all running 3.y.x which has none of that code in it. -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL