Re: Unix vs Linux - Round 1

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is if the code was already put into the mainstream.

How do you rewrite code that has been put on public CVS?

This isn't like you took code and packaged it with your app.  You took code
and gave everyone a copy of it.  You can't take it back from people.

It will be an interesting case.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: Unix vs Linux - Round 1


> > From: John Myers - MM
> >
> > SCO Sues IBM For $1B In Intellectual Property Fight
> >
> > The scary part is that on June13, IBM can lose its ability to sell AIX !
>
> <yawn>
>
> SCO says that IBM can't include AIX code in Linux.  Okee dokee.  That
means
> that whatever pieces came from AIX have to be rewritten.
>
> Let's see here... of all the companies in the world, which is the one most
> likely to be able to rewrite sections of an operating system?  (You get
> three guesses, and the first two don't count.)
>
> So yeah, it's a nuisance.  And a painful nuisance at that, more along the
> line of root canal rather than a cavity.  But not insuperable.  And it's
got
> the potential to completely bury the SCO Unix market, because if you're a
> manager of any sort of SCO Unix shop, you are now in a position where a
> company whom you have no dealings with whatsoever can put your vendor out
of
> business (and has proven that they are willing to do so).
>
> So you go to Linux (which will thrill IBM once they've rewritten the SCO
> liable pieces) or something like FreeBSD.  Or who knows?  Maybe you decide
> you want to go to a real operating system and you go with OS/400 <grin>.
>
> Joe