Posted on 08/12/2007 8:55:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The 102-page ruling by Judge Dale Kimball refuted many of SCO's claims against Novell, and seemed to remove the basis for its lawsuit against IBM. SCO had previously charged that the Linux operating system was an unauthorised derivative of Unix, which it claimed to have purchased from Novell in 1995.
"The court's ruling has cut out the core of SCO's case and, as a result, eliminates SCO's threat to the Linux community based upon allegations of copyright infringement of Unix," Joe LaSala, Novell's senior vice president and general counsel, told the New York Times.
The Unix operating system was developed by AT&T researchers at Bell Labs from 1969. While it has been a long-time favourite in server and mainframe systems, it never gained a great foothold in the personal computer business until the Linux variant was developed in the early 1990s, and Apple started to base their Mac OS on a version of Unix.
Figures from the open-source industry also see the ruling as a boost to their business.
"This is a meaningful message in terms of people adopting open-source software," James Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told the New York Times. "This says that Linux is a safe solution and people can choose it with that in mind."
My dream is to switch from Windows programming to Unix/Linux. I like the culture (yes I know it’s from hippies, but still), I esp. like the minimalist, non-nonsense “small, sharp tools” philosophy which fits well with my own. Maybe this ruling will open up some new opportunities over the coming months...
Q&A: Torvalds on Linux, Microsoft, software's future
By Peter Moon, Computerworld, 08/09/07
Initially I set up that system so that I could get started with the 'D' programming language ( http://www.digitalmars.com/d/overview.html ), which I believe to be one of the most promising new languages in recent years.
Yaaa!!!
I’m wondering why SCO stock hasn’t taken a nose dive after this. Who’s propping it up?
F15,
There is no RedHat10
The Current Redhat is RHEL5, The Current Suse is SLES 10 maybe thats what youre running.
If youre using SLES check out this online (free) book.. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7777383455.html
I guess I looked too soon. Now this is the reaction I expected.
Nothing wrong with RHEL2.1 but youre going to find application vendors are not supporting anymore (like BEA). The good news is what you have purchased is a RedHat Entitlement so you can download the newest RHEL5 and give it a spin, if it works for you just cut over the entitlement.
At 11:13AM ET: 0.45 Down 1.11 (71.23%).
ouch.
http://www.click-now.net/ebooks02.htm
I have had some luck with Linux ebooks from these guys in the past..
Be careful if you’re “borrowing” GPL licensed code, since it’s really not free and those green party moonbats from the Free Software Foundation might show up and threaten to sue you if you don’t hand over your resulting code effort.
That’s only if you’re developing it for sale. If you’re using GPL’ed stuff or derivatives internally, you don’t need to release the code.
So if I get the Windows source, modify it, and redistribute it widely, do you promise to chastise Microsoft for going after me for my infringement? Of course not, because in your world it's okay to infringe on the rights of those you don't like.
Believe it or not, this is perfectly legit and moral even in Stallman's communist worldview.
What our troll is trying to say is:
Read the license first if you use GPL code and redistribute your improvements on that code you have to distribute youre changes as well..
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