We ran a version of Berkley Unix on our VAX 11-780’s back in the day.
Litigating with IBM is never a good idea. The Justice department learned that years ago (after litigating from 1969 - 1982.) It appears that patent trolls haven’t figured it out yet. (Although SCO eventually found out the hard way).
Caveat - IBM quickly folder this year when the government sued over IBM engaging in DEI practices. For some reason, IBM was happy to rid itself of some DEI mandates.
Isn’t MacOS based on UNIX ? LOL Want money that’s the place to get it ,LOL
“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company”.
It’s kind of funny, that on my way back from town earlier today I suddenly found myself wondering about whatever happened to OS/2 Warp.
Jarndyce v Jarndyce
AI coding should make these lawsuits even more interesting. If you ask an AI system to “give me some code to do this”, it gets the original code from somewhere. Every time that’s done is a potential copyright and patent violation.
Paging Pamela Jones and Groklaw.
I remember putting Copyright 1984 Company Name on some Internet software I wrote.
"Ownnnnz!.....Ownnzzzzz!"
“He was describing copyleft, the term in the GPL that requires distributed derivative works to carry the same license. Ballmer’s fear was that it would spread: use a little GPL code, be forced to GPL the rest.”
“Microsoft can now ship a GPLv2 Linux kernel inside Windows and lose no sleep. WSL2 runs a real Linux kernel. Microsoft publishes its modified source to satisfy the GPL, the kernel runs as its own component, and much of Windows stays proprietary (all the cool new stuff is open source).”
This has details:
https://www.boxofcables.dev/stop-quoting-steve-ballmer/
From 20 years ago:
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2006/11/20/microsoft-makes-claim-on-linux-code/462436
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages
I no longer do software, so I can’t verify usefulness.
Wait, I thought the late Jimi Hendrix started Project Monterey, and Eric Burdon wrote a song about it...
I thought I smelled Dark McBride.
Well then they never agreed to a settlement if the future lawsuit has standing. If this is allowed everyone would settle then just sell your rights to the IP to someone else. Rinse and repeat.