From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 14:31:21 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did In-Reply-To: References: <20180206230254.GB1977@thunk.org> <20180207151347.GA29650@thunk.org> Message-ID: On 07/02/2018, Clem Cole wrote (in part): > As a minor footnote, I've always wonder about the SCO case being anything > but a delay tactic against Linux. Give the courts results from the AT&T > vs. BSDi case, I'm personally surprised they got as far as they did. I > really would expected to be tossed out at the start (hut Im not a lawyer of > course). Clearly, the courts had declared that ideas were free and clear > for anyone to use. So how SCO could have claimed anything against anyone, > I find hard to fathom. Again the courts got it right​, but it took a loot of time > and effort for then to decide something that the another court had already decided.​ The entire painful journey can be read on Groklaw and well worth reading when you have a spare month or so. N.