SCO after BSD settlement

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Sat Nov 22 16:17:31 PST 2003


On Saturday, 22 November 2003 at  8:37:51 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20031122 03:52], Gary Thorpe (gathorpe79 at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> By the way, how would Linux/BSD zealots feel if SCO ripped out parts of
>> Linux/BSD and put it into SVRx and relicensed it and claimed it as their
>> own? If, _if_ this is what happened except with the players reversed
>> there is certainly nothing defensible about it.
>
> Mootpoint.  Microsoft already did this to BSD code.  We allow it. :)

More to the point, large parts of System V came from Berkeley.  This
is no secret.  The only issue is the license.  

Greg
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