Re: You're kidding, right?

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

But SCO still hasn't disclosed the code in question.  And then, we
don't know if they borrowed from Linux or if SCO and Linux borrowed
from a 3rd source.  

Didn't they release the source code for Xenix around 1998 or so?

--- "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <sl@eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:59:54 -0500, Nate Reindl
> <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > I also read somewhere else that the license only concerns
> commercial
> > use.  In other words, if you keep everything personal and
> non-profit,
> > they can't touch you, but that's only according to another
> article
> > that I read.
> > 
> > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html
> > 
> > They say the same thing on their website, too.
> > 
> > http://www.sco.com/scosource/
> 
> It doesn't say that anywhere in those articles. An individual
> license
> for the kernel is costing $199 for noncommercial use.
> 
> The website from SCO states that the end-user is held harmless
> through
> any future violations of copyright, provided that they buy the
> one-time
> binary run license.
> 
> But oh well, I'm not paying, nor will I ever be under obligation.
> ;)
> 
> -- 
> Scott Christopher Linnenbringer	    <sl@eskimo.com>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt  <sl@moslug.org>
> 
> 

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