Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 02, 2004 05:35 PM
Isn't this to do with license revenue; both Sun and Microsoft have licensed Unix stuff from SCO. Sun has issued an (admittedly low-key) statement to the effect that they will not be affected by the SCO/IBM/Linux legal shenanigans, because they're fully licensed.
This license arrangement was in place long before SCO decided to go after IBM.
So Sun is a licensee of SCO's. And SCO believes IBM has violated their intellectual property, and is taking legal action against IBM. WTF has that got to do with Sun? Unless you want to argue that Sun should renege its agreement in support of IBM?
It's a confused mind that can interpret this as Sun going after Linux.
The interesting thing will be that if SCO loses, has Sun been paying for a license it doesn't need?
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Re:sun is sco's pimpdaddy
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 02, 2004 05:35 PMThis license arrangement was in place long before SCO decided to go after IBM.
So Sun is a licensee of SCO's. And SCO believes IBM has violated their intellectual property, and is taking legal action against IBM. WTF has that got to do with Sun? Unless you want to argue that Sun should renege its agreement in support of IBM?
It's a confused mind that can interpret this as Sun going after Linux.
The interesting thing will be that if SCO loses, has Sun been paying for a license it doesn't need?
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