From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 16:53:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EA137B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06DA43F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DFDC851980; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:23:18 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:23:18 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... Message-ID: <20030128005318.GF56320@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3E309AA0.3020705@ocsny.com> <20030124030130.GB61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030126074338.GB1606@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <3E341113.3080304@potentialtech.com> <20030127040154.GK94229@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3E34D2D9.8010209@potentialtech.com> <56y956jrqn.956@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56y956jrqn.956@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 11:51:44 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Bill Moran writes: >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>> I'm more inclined to think that these are different parts of the same >>> company who don't (didn't) know about the other part. >> >> Another strong possibility. Happens all the time. > > Not this time. The reports are quoting the CEO from interviews and > official letters. They are reporting the creation of a new business > unit ("SCOsource") to handle company intellectual property. The purpose > is obviously not to get good publicity. > > http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1573491 quotes the CEO: > > "SCO is [...] identifying where intellectual property violations > have taken place, and helping resolve those violations" > > http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981569.html?tag=fd_top quotes the CEO: > > "To us, it's not an issue of: Is Linux violating (SCO intellectual > property)? It's an issue of: Is anybody violating it?" > > And it quotes the CEO noting the presence of their code in (Mac) OS/X. > We can hope that he doesn't know something about the secret agreements > over that code which we don't, Which secret agreements? The license is public, and it doesn't leave any space for secret agreements. > and is just an ignorant CEO speaking too soon, and that his new > lawyer will educate him about the code's status. I suspect that this is the case. Could we now please take this off -questions? Continue on advocacy@ if you want. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message