Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Commentary: IBM will nullify SCO's Linux threat. SCO's legitimate goal--to make money from its intellectual property--has been overshadowed by the company's publicity-laden plot to raise its visibility, hence acquisition value. [CNET News.com]

This commentary from Forrester Research predicts that IBM is going to make this whole thing go away either through a pay-off or a buy-out and IT managers should not worry the lawsuit in making Linux deployment plans.


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LinuxTag: SCO Must Desist Unfair Competitive Practices Lawyers representing the LinuxTag association have given notice to SCO Group GmbH to desist from unfair competitive practiices. The notice, dated Friday, May 23, maintains that SCO Group is sowing uncertainty among the community of GNU/Linux users, developers and suppliers. "SCO needs to stop claiming that the standard Linux kernel violates its copyrights, or they need to lay the evidence for their claim on the table," said LinuxTag's Michael Kleinhenz. [Linux Today]
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InformationWeek > Open Source > Microsoft Likes Open Source. Kind Of > May 23, 2003 - Microsoft, on the other hand, attaches royalty fees to some of its shared software and carefully controls who has access to its code and what they can do with it. For example, while Microsoft lets others modify and distribute Windows CE under certain conditions, any changes to its flagship Windows operating systems are strictly off limits. What Microsoft wants to avoid, in part, is a situation like SCO's, in which derivative works (if that is, in fact, what they are) become difficult to track, control, and license. "Our concern is the integrity of the platform," Matusow says. By Microsoft's estimate, more than 200 variants of Linux exist.

Good article on MS shared source program and how it compares to actual open source licensing.  Just highlights the fact that MS is in the software business to make money, and lots of it.  Can't blame them for that.


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SCO Still Providing Linux Source Under GPL. Legal FUD or no legal FUD, SCO makes free source code available where it counts. [Linux Journal]
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