October 30th, 2007 | UNIX, BSD by th | 2 Comments
Back in the beginning of the operating systems history, UNIX was the king of the scene. For the general public, UNIX might be the best known from Jurassic Park (“It’s a UNIX system! I know this!”). Although many use and know only Microsoft’s Windows operating system, UNIX (and alike) operating systems are still alive and well, and many might not realize they actually use UNIX systems every day - Internet literally runs on UNIX(-alike) systems. BSD is one operating system family that originates from the original UNIX source code.
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August 11th, 2007 | UNIX, Linux by th | No Comments
Now this is big - the court as officially ruled that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights.
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
This basically means SCO is screwed. They own a lot of money for Novell. And IBM’s nazguls will tear apart whatever is left of SCO.
For those who don’t know what this is about, SCO is one scumbag company trying to play random lawsuit lottery to get rich. Here’s the lawsuit in a nutshell:
- In 2003, SCO sued IBM for 5 billion dollars, claiming IBM had leaked UNIX source code to Linux
- IBM, along with open source community, asked for proof (which SCO didn’t give)
- SCO showed some proof - which turned out to be BSD source code
- SCO started demanding 699$ license from Linux users because “they owned it”
- SCO claims Linux contains “millions of lines” UNIX source code.
- SCO claims they own all original IBM code for AIX because it’s derivative work of UNIX
- Novell stepped forward and said “not so fast, *we* own the UNIX copyrights”
- SCO claimed “no you don’t”
- Novell said “yes we do, you’re only a licensee for it”
- And as of today - SCO has still failed to show a single infringing line of code
Groklaw has more (and better) information about the SCO saga.
