SCO Lawsuits, round 2

Lawrence Sica lomion at mac.com
Thu Nov 20 11:43:31 PST 2003


On Nov 20, 2003, at 6:15 AM, ogautherot at freesurf.fr wrote:

>
> Ceri Davies écrit:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:00:27AM -0500, Lawrence Sica wrote:
>>> On Nov 19, 2003, at 9:16 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "I agree that the more yarn you pull out the more you see," McBride
>>>>> said
>>>>> during a press briefing at the inaugural Enterprise IT Week at 
>>>>> cdXpo
>>>>> Conference here. "We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused 
>>>>> on
>>>>> the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys 
>>>>> are
>>>>> going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until
>>>>> sometime in the first half of next year."
>>>>
>>>> Um ... who is BSD? *scratch head*  Or do they intend to sue Berkeley
>>>> themselves?
>>>
>>> The various *BSDs and Apple one must assume.   Apple is probably a
>>> prime target.
>>
>> Well Apple aren't using a BSD kernel as I understand it, so they're
>> probably safe.
>>
>> Ceri
>>
>> -- 
>
> Darwin (the new Apple kernel) is based on BSD so, eventually, the Mc 
> Bride
> could sue them too.
>

The kernel is Mach based, the userland is BSD based though.

--Larry


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