M$ and Unix[tm] [was: Re: mail to individuals]

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:54 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 19:21 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> >> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:54:54 +0200
> >> Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > (so far)
> >> > sorry, I don't grok this
> >>
> >> As I understand it right now, Novell (Microsoft shill?) is trying to
> >> get the ownership to UNIX, which they claim to already own, having only
> >> licensed it to SCO (known Microsoft shill) to resell.  The justice
> >> department so far seems to agree with Novell, but either way it looks
> >> to me like Microsoft will control UNIX, no matter who is the
> >> owner-of-record.
> >
> > In my understanding it's only the Unix[tm] trademark that is disputed
> > but as always IANAL.  As far as unixoid OSes are concerned, M$ surely
> > would like to control them but I doubt they'll ever succeed.
> >
> > Regs
> >  Siggy
> 
> No no, it's not about trademarks, it's about the original AT&T kernel
> source code and derivatives from it. SCO claims Linux uses stolen AT&T
> code, but they can't deliver proof. When pushed, they produced
> hundreds of thousands of pages of code listings, *on paper*.
> Impossible to tell what's in there, really.

Ah, that old story; it wasn't new when I last read about it in early 2004.
I wasn't able to stay tuned in the sequel, and was thinking that case
had been settled in the meantime :-\

[snip unixoid OSes left]

Below is an old signature of mine from 1995, it seems we are approaching
a situation that had been desirable back in the 80s, FSF was around even
earlier.  

Regards
-- 
Siggy  (the middle S.)    \\
email: bsb at disfunct-domain \\ Linux - What *nix missed to be in the 80s

 
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