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SCO starts suing Linux users
WMD:
quote:Originally posted by xeen:
But OSX is Unix, which SCO claims to own.
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There are two Unix derivatives, System-V and BSD. SCO claims to own System-V; the BSD one is owned by someone else (maybe still Berkeley).
flap:
quote:How is OSX safe from this? It's basically a Linux distro too.
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How do you figure that? The issue is that SCO is claiming there is SCO-copyrighted code in Linux, and OSX uses Darwin, not Linux.
preacher:
There is absolutely no way that SCO could beat Autozone in a case. Autozone would have to have used linux knowing that some of SCO's code was in it to be guilty, but since SCO has yet to prove that linux has any of SCO's code, Autozone wouldn't have known they were illegally using SCO's product. Worst case scenario, AutoZone drops linux and pics up BSD......lol
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Ecsyle...:
OSX is not basically a linux distro. Its not even close to linux. So, OSX is very safe.
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Yes, it's not close to linux (it's BSD).
No it's not safe. Darl and Co are starting to claim they own everything under the sun that is even remotely unix related. They have repeatedly said that BSD has violated the settlement.
Noone is safe from a madman.
hm_murdock:
kinda interesting, Apple could easily drop the BSD layer and build their own new OS underneath OS X
no BSD all of a sudden
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