From: jcapp@anteil.com (Jim Capp)
Subject: [TUHS] Microsoft, SCO, and a certain License
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:50:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040305155022.GA24027@anteil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078501214.3788.20.camel@ablate.merit.edu>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
>
> Microsoft and SCO have been very coy about what it is that Microsoft
> actually licensed. I believe the closest they have come to explaining
> it can be found in a Byte interview by Trevor Marshall --
> http://www.byte.com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622054/0616_marshall.html
> where Chris Sontag of SCO is quoted as saying that Microsoft merely
> licensed an "applications interface layer."
>
> I take this to mean they are probably talking about header files
> like errno.h, signal.h, etc. I believe that Microsoft development
> products have iterations of these and they only have Microsoft copyright
> notices in them (no AT&T or BSD notices). SFU would have them
> as well, although I'm not sure what copyright notices are on those.
> SCO claims that the lack of a copyright notices violates the USL vs.
> BSDi settlement. Of course, this claim is extremely tenuous (since
> Microsoft's headers files origination likely predates the settlement
> and were derived independently from public sources).
>
> In the end, I strongly suspect this was a way for Microsoft to funnel
> money to SCO to attack Linux as opposed to Microsoft claims of
> "respecting Intellectual Property Rights."
>
I think it's very odd that Microsoft would need a license from SCO
at all. Isn't it true that before there was SCO, there was Microsoft
XENIX? I find it hard to believe that Microsoft would have divested itself
of all rights in XENIX (including the headers above) when spinning off
SCO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-05 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-29 7:34 Wesley Parish
2004-02-29 7:54 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2004-02-29 16:25 ` Jon Snader
2004-02-29 23:54 ` Kurt Wall
2004-02-29 14:48 ` Paul Ward
2004-02-29 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2004-03-01 0:46 ` Roger Willcocks
2004-03-01 0:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2004-03-05 15:40 ` Larry J. Blunk
2004-03-05 15:50 ` Jim Capp [this message]
2004-03-05 21:36 [TUHS] Microsoft,SCO,and " zme
2004-03-05 23:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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