Mocosoft Buy Linux

[Juk]

sorry, visit http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread....=&threadid=7281


The Apocalypsis come

 

[Delsabre]

I cant read spanish.

and theres no way Microsoft could buy Linux, its protected by all sorts of copyrights and no single person owns it.

 

[Juk]

I cant read spanish.

and theres no way Microsoft could buy Linux, its protected by all sorts of copyrights and no single person owns it.

Microsoft buy in the past SCO, and now the SCO say: "the kernel of linux have part of Linux" And for this, Microsoft will spend the license of linux to the companies, 699$ for systems and 199$ for Pc's

Excuse, my English is very poor, ¡¡¡use the translator in Gp32Spain

 

[dad]

SCO is claiming that part of LINUX is material taken from SCO UNIX and so LINUX users should pay a fee to SCO to use LINUX. If M$ buys SCO then M$ would 'own' LINUX, but I doubt if it is going to be legal, if it happens at all.

 

[ThndrShk2k]

yeah, but people wont pay for linux, unles they are buying CDs to install it, or the ability to use the servers to download the linux ISO files.*a couple ways of providing pay service, in which as far as i know is the only way you can make money from linux *RedHat had tech support and updating for a fee before they discontinued regular redhat support*

 

[Daz_Genetic]

I don't understand how SCO is going around sueing companys for license fees, when the judge has yet to make a decision of whether there is an infringment.

Will the people get their money back if SCO is proved to be in the wrong?

 

[Robster]

It's just someone looking at the headlines and not understanding the case.

The SCO fiasco is just a case of a company whose business is failing because they are in the same market as Linux, but they don't do it very well. Simple.

Their lawsuits against IBM, Novell, etc, have no hope of succeeding. Whether they are hoping that the lawsuits will get them some money in the short term, or whether they are wanting to be bought out, or whether they are just pumping the SCO stock price so the executives can make some money, is not known, but it doesn't matter.

The legal process is slow, but in a year or two SCO will be just a memory and Linux will be rolling on.

See Groklaw for more information.

 

[Vimacs]

sco is a bad joke, nothing more

 

[Mikey]

Lol Vimacs nice sig

 

[ColinR]

If Microsoft were to try to "buy" Linux, I can't see it happening due to the anti-competitive nature of such a proposition.

Nice sig, Vimacs! Do another one that says "I will search for the source code before requesting a port."

 

[Delsabre]

I see we have nothing to worry about anyway as Mocosoft seems to be some kind of pornographic scam. ( google it )

Edit: It seems Mocosoft is dealing in warez too. Id hate to think what kind of future theyre planning for linux

 

[narmak]

SCO is claiming that part of LINUX is material taken from SCO UNIX and so LINUX users should pay a fee to SCO to use LINUX. If M$ buys SCO then M$ would 'own' LINUX, but I doubt if it is going to be legal, if it happens at all.

ummmm..... No they wouldn't. Sco is claiming that portions of the code used in linux was stolen from SCO unix, which is ridiculous, there are many different ways to write code for a specific task, even if the code happend to be similar, i can easily see a large array of progammers finding multiple different ways to do the same thing. Microsoft will never own linux, if they bought sco, they would own a shitty piece of software, that is it, although, microsoft owning shitty pieces of software isn't too outragrous......

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

You can't buy linux, its impossible. The GPL doesnt permit it.

 

[Daz_Genetic]

You can't buy linux, its impossible. The GPL doesnt permit it.

Not true. You can sell GPL'd stuff.

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

You can't buy linux, its impossible. The GPL doesnt permit it.

Not true. You can sell GPL'd stuff.

Yes, but you cant buy exclusive rights.

 

[dad]

Statements from SCO say that the code in parts of LINUX is identical to original SCO UNIX code, so if SCO is right then parts of the Linux distribution needs to be licensed from SCO, if M$ buys SCO then they get the rights to the disputed code. (other parts of Linux are licensed from other people/bodies)

The legal standing at present is that SCO has been asked to produce a copy of the disputed code, but I believe that it has failed to do so. So the case drags on....

It is reported that some companies have paid some sort of fee, to cover their ass, and that possibly only one company has actually been served with any Legal Demand for settlement.

I suggest logging into www.slashdot.org and catch up on the latest and the older threads.

It would not take much of an effort to remove any SCO code, if it exists, from Linux and the whole thing would be over.

regards
dad

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

Statements from SCO say that the code in parts of LINUX is identical to original SCO UNIX code, so if SCO is right then parts of the Linux distribution needs to be licensed from SCO, if M$ buys SCO then they get the rights to the disputed code. (other parts of Linux are licensed from other people/bodies)

The legal standing at present is that SCO has been asked to produce a copy of the disputed code, but I believe that it has failed to do so. So the case drags on....

It is reported that some companies have paid some sort of fee, to cover their ass, and that possibly only one company has actually been served with any Legal Demand for settlement.

I suggest logging into www.slashdot.org and catch up on the latest and the older threads.

It would not take much of an effort to remove any SCO code, if it exists, from Linux and the whole thing would be over.

regards
dad

There probably isnt any in there to start with. Every snippet of "stolen code" that was leaked from SCO has proof that it was originally developed by linux developers. SCO, of course, say that the code snippets were actually just stand ins, but I find that hard to beleive.

Even if there is a few lines of code in there, that doesn't give SCO ownership of the entire kernel.

 

[Axeman]

Its a legal minefield, but I doubt we'll ever see M$ trying THAT one on and succeeding!