Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating to

[Julian Elischer]

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also note that this is actually "caldera" and not the SCO of Xenix fame.


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :> Here's one of the many press releases that a google search turned up:
> :>
> :> http://www.daemon.org/bsd-releases/misc/USL-lawsuit
> :
> :and here is the other:
> :
> :http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bsdi/bsdisuit.htm
> :
> :-- 
> :Greetings
> :
> :Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
> 
>     The best statement that I've read so far vis-a-vie the SCO litigation is
>     the OSI group's position paper on the matter.  It doesn't focus on the
>     USL lawsuit but it gives a really good overview of the whole situation,
>     and it brings up the fact that AT&T was caught red-handed taking code
>     from BSD, removing the copyrights, and putting their own on, which
>     severely taints the efficacy of any IP claims made based on the SysV
>     code.
> 
>     SCO is basically trying to inflate its own importance and the importance
>     of its SysV copyrights and the contributions SysV made to the history
>     of unix, and all public statements SCO makes are done with that in mind.
>     It's unfortunate that the press feels (generally, not BYTE specifically)
>     that it must turn the whole thing into high entertainment.
> 
> 	http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
> 
> 						-Matt
> 
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