Re: OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
Re: OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
- Subject: Re: OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:49:14 -0400
On or about 7/26/03 11:37 PM, Peter Bunn wrote:
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Is the BSD kernel subject to SCO's threats?
I don't believe (nor did I intend to suggest so, just in case you thought
that, Peter.) The filing, moved to Federal court, claims dissemination of
proprietary information by IBM. The subsequent threats to enterprise users
of Linux has been removed from SCO's U.S. website as well, but it addressed
Linux specifically, not Unix in its broad scope.
In that previously cited series, there is an article on the history of UNIX
(not a very detailed article) and it discusses the Free Software
Foundation's view of the genetic relatives of "UNIX", including BSD. [1]
I also found the OSI's position paper on the SCO-IBM dispute (a paper that
predates the most recent foul turns, like the removal of the German SCO site
in response to the German court's injunction) a very interesting read
regarding the progeny of UNIX.
That URI is <
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html>
--
Gary
[1] regarding comments on BSD's relation...
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The Bell Labs code passed from AT&T to USL when AT&T spun it off in 1992 in
a joint venture with Novell (the Unix trademark went to Open Group -- then
known as X/Open -- as part of the deal). Novell bought AT&T's stake in USL
in 1993. The property then passed from Novell to SCO in 1995. Meanwhile, the
Unix universe had seen a birth of a number of other Unices, including:
* AIX, IBM's Unix, a proprietary genetic and trademark Unix developed
between 1987 and 1990
* Solaris, the proprietary genetic and trademark Unix used by Sun
Microsystems
* SCO Open Server, SCO's version of Unix, a proprietary genetic and
trademark Unix dating back to the early 1980s
* BSD, an open source genetic Unix, but not a trademark Unix, which now
has three variants of its own
* Linux, an open source variant developed in Finland in 1991 which
Raymond said is neither a genetic Unix nor a trademark Unix.
SCO added UnixWare, the brand name carried by later versions of Bell Labs'
Unix, after it acquired it in 1995. In the meantime, to further muddy the
picture, System V, the Unix that later evolved into UnixWare, borrowed from
4.4BSD, leading Berkeley to sue.
"It seems that from as far back as before 1985, the historical Bell Labs
code base has been incorporating large amounts of software from the BSD
sources," Raymond said in OSI's position paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM complaint.
"The University's cause of action lay in the fact that AT&T, USL and Novell
had routinely violated the terms of the BSD license by removing license
attributions and copyrights."
The lawsuit was settled and the record sealed.
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