Comments on: SCO goes down and Sun’s in Trouble http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/sco-goes-down-and-suns-in-trouble/ for practical people. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Alternageek Episode 44: SCO got Pwnd http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/sco-goes-down-and-suns-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-794 Alternageek Episode 44: SCO got Pwnd Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:45:30 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=418#comment-794 [...] SCO Goes Down and Sun’s In Trouble Practical Technology [...] [...] SCO Goes Down and Sun’s In Trouble Practical Technology [...]

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]]> By: seanlynch http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/sco-goes-down-and-suns-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-433 seanlynch Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:59:23 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=418#comment-433 I don't think Sun is in too much trouble here. They did what they were supposed to. SCO is Novell's fiduciary for Unix IP licensing. To get a Unix license, or change an old one, companies like Sun are supposed to contact SCO. SCO is supposed to contact Novell when it needs permission to license SVRX. SCO is supposed to divide up the license fees, giving Novell 100% of SVRX license fees. If Sun loses Open Solaris, it really won't hurt them financially. They had no intent to harm Novell, and they did pay for what they got. So I don't think Sun would be liable to Novell for damages. SCO, it seems, is the culprit here. It is through SCO that Unix Intellectual Property has been released into Open Source without the permission of the copyright holder, Novell. SCO accused IBM of doing this. SCO accused Linux distributors of doing this. SCO accused Linux users of doing this. It turns out it was SCO in the boardroom with a tort who committed the IP crime of leaking precious Unix IP into GPL'ed code! I don’t think Sun is in too much trouble here. They did what they were supposed to. SCO is Novell’s fiduciary for Unix IP licensing. To get a Unix license, or change an old one, companies like Sun are supposed to contact SCO.

SCO is supposed to contact Novell when it needs permission to license SVRX. SCO is supposed to divide up the license fees, giving Novell 100% of SVRX license fees.

If Sun loses Open Solaris, it really won’t hurt them financially. They had no intent to harm Novell, and they did pay for what they got. So I don’t think Sun would be liable to Novell for damages.

SCO, it seems, is the culprit here. It is through SCO that Unix Intellectual Property has been released into Open Source without the permission of the copyright holder, Novell.

SCO accused IBM of doing this.
SCO accused Linux distributors of doing this.
SCO accused Linux users of doing this.

It turns out it was SCO in the boardroom with a tort who committed the IP crime of leaking precious Unix IP into GPL’ed code!

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