[Mimedefang] grammar nit

[john at essenz.com]

You know its funny, I have tried to not get involved in anything relating 
to SCO and their lawsuits because the whole things just aggrevates me. But 
for fun, I listened to SCO's CEO do a radio interview (availble from 
SCO.com), and the first words out of his mouth were "many computers today 
run UNIX, which happens to be owned by the SCO Group". I think I almost 
threwup!!! 

He claims that some intellectual property has made its way into Linux. 
Does anybody know specifically what he is talking about? Or is it all just 
BS, and the real issue is that Linux "resembles" SysV UNIX, and therefore 
it is theft of intectual property. Thats like suing a band who sing songs 
that "sound" like Metallica songs! 

-john


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>From : jnemeth at victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To : mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject : Re: [Mimedefang] grammar nit
Date : Thu, 8 Jul 2004 03:53:56 -0700
> On Nov 27, 10:27am, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> } mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 07/07/2004 
03:33:15 
> } PM:
> } 
> } >      Yes...  Now for the history lesson.  :-)  After the breakup of
> } 
> } Thanks for the refresher course in computer history.  I'm sure I read 
most 
> } of that in the trade rags as it was happening, I just could remember 
which 
> } piece went with what...
> } 
> } You summed it up nicely in one (long) paragraph.  thank you.
> 
>      No problem.  Apart from the stuff about DR-DOS, it was from memory
> anyways.
> 
>      I see that I left out a couple of important points.  Novell clains
> that they still own the copyrights and that they just sold licencing
> rights to SCO.  This is a point of contention in the law suits.  Also,
> Novell donated the UNIX trademark to an European standards group
> called, The OpenGroup.  This is a good thing since it means that The
> SCO Group doesn't get to decide who is or isn't allowed to call their
> OS UNIX.  But, rather an impartial third party does, which keeps
> politics out of the trademark usage rights.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from WBrown at e1b.org
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