From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 15:26:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A679337B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.attbi.com (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F45B43F93 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([12.233.125.100]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003061722264401100808bpe>; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:26:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA31447; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200306172226.PAA31447@InterJet.elischer.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:26:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Matthew Dillon cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating to X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:26:47 -0000 BSDsettlement agreement In-Reply-To: <200306172039.h5HKdkII060099@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >