Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:23:18 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... Message-ID: <20030128005318.GF56320@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <56y956jrqn.956@localhost.localdomain> 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>
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On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 11:51:44 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> 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
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