Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:39:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating to BSDsettlement agreement Message-ID: <200306172039.h5HKdkII060099@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3EEF00E4.9000908@freebsd.mheller.org> <20030617.060806.42773474.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0306171703220.13342@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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:> 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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