Re: Does Microsoft thwart Intel initiatives?

[Tom Bruno <crweb@vwords.com>]

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that the software that SCO claims IBM broke
contract by placing into linux, does not qualify as AIX derivatives.  I
mean, come on, how could a stand alone file system like JFS which ran on
OS/2 before being put into AIX, be consided a derivative of AIX?  It
can't.  

SCO claims IBM broke contract, but the reality is, SCO wants IBM to give
them their proof.  As far as the rest of SCO's claims, software a
company writes that runs on a OS, does NOT mean the software is a
derivative work.

 It was SCO who broked a non-revokable contract with IBM.


On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 19:42, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 19:34, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > It got worse.  You should _read_ up on the fate of young Go.
> > It seems they were involved with some particular litigation with a company
> > out of Redmond.  They ran out of funds before they could see their lawsuit
> > to fruition.
> > FYI, if you use the "PocketPC" operating system, fka "Windows CE," you're
> > using unlicensed Go technology.  Yes, the "Windows-H" is nothing more than,
> > well, "borrowed" Go technology.  ;-ppp
> 
> FYI, I wrote _all_ of my previous message _before_ reading the NYTimes
> article.  If you'll note this passage ...
> 
>   "Other evidence presented by the plaintiffs' lawyers at trial
>    yesterday gave an account of how Microsoft violated a signed
>    secrecy agreement with Go and showed that Microsoft possessed
>    technical documents from Go that it should not have had access
>    to."
> 
> Microsoft _breaks_ contract law _everyday_.  They do it because they are
> big.  Corel, Digital, Digital Research, Go, Micrografx and countless
> other firms in the '90s.  This is _reality_ people.
> 
> IBM, as much as we love them for their Linux endeavors, did the
> _same_thing_ to SCO as well.  As much as we now hate SCO for the "Linux
> smearing" they did, understand that IBM wasn't "innocent" in the
> matter.**
> 
> -- Bryan
> 
> **P.S.  Although what SCO is now doing, as of January 2004, by trying to
> _outlaw_ our right to "digital assembly" in the form of the GPL makes
> everything else mute.  SCO must be _destroyed_ as they have forsaken all
> that is American, the rights of others.  At least IBM has taken the
> "best road" by _not_ capitulating into SCO's demands, even though IBM
> could easily buy the company.  They want to prove to the world that GPL
> is good and right, and it is _very_American_ -- the right to _choose_ to
> be part of a larger community, especially in a capitalistic society.
> 


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