Messages in this thread | | | From | Thorsten Körner <> | Subject | Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM] | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:41:46 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 21:30 schrieb Jesse Pollard: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:08, Thorsten Körner wrote: > > Hi Jesse > > > > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 20:58 schrieb Jesse Pollard: > > > On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:37, Downing, Thomas wrote: > > > > I'm no authority, but IMHO > > > > > > > > > In article <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de>, > > > > > > > > > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Which makes no sense. You're not at the mercy of Linus or the > > > > > kernel developers, neither at that of the KDE developers, but > > > > > TrollTech controls the KDE desktop wrt commercial apps. > > > > > > > > No, they don't. KDE uses the GPL for QT. If I build a commercial > > > > app using KDE, it is GPL. If I build a commercial app not using > > > > KDE, but using commercial QT, that has no effect on the KDE desktop. > > > > > > Lets see... > > > > > > SCO releases Linux code under GPL... > > > > Did they ?!? No they didn't > > They are talking about old Unix-Licenses, not about Linux. And SCO also > > has not licensed Unix to IBM themselves. > > It was my understanding that you could download SCO Linux up until about a > month after they started the lawsuit. By that time, all/most of the > contested code had to already be in the kernel. Since SCO was supplying it, > it was released (my opinion). The lawsuit has nothing to do with Caldera or SCO-Linux. It's to make money. The SCO-People seem to have read the book "How to make money while doing nothing" ;-) > > IMHO IBM AIX doesn't owe anything to SCO. Sure in the early days, IBM did > consider using System V... but it had so many problems being ported that > they completely dropped it, and continued with AIX development instead. > > I've used both.. and believe me, AIX doesn't work ANYTHING like System V. > no virtualization (disks), no partitioning (systems), no distributed > operations, minimal networking, no Power support... (this was a 202e > prototype at the time I believe... > > All of that belonged to AIX. which even had SMP beginnings (some > platforms). Even shared memory was not exactly working well on System V > (semaphores were very slow).
That maybe right, I've never used AIX. But one single line of code would be enough for SCO. And I think there maybe some more than one line. Surely is it old code. But they say it's owned by IBM. I hope that one day jugdes will stop companies and people from making money that dark way. But I think that this hope is slightly irrealistic.
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