The Artima Developer Community
Articles | News | Weblogs | Books | Forums
Artima Forums | Articles | Weblogs | Java Answers | News
Sponsored Link •

Java Buzz Forum
SUN trying to Fight IBM via SCO

0 replies on 1 page.

Welcome Guest
  Sign In

Go back to the topic listing  Back to Topic List Click to reply to this topic  Reply to this Topic Click to search messages in this forum  Search Forum Click for a threaded view of the topic  Threaded View   
Previous Topic   Next Topic
Flat View: This topic has 0 replies on 1 page
Fred Grott

Posts: 4361
Nickname: shareme
Registered: Jan, 2003

Fred Grott is Lead Developer-CEO of ShareMe Technologies LLC -The Mobile Future
SUN trying to Fight IBM via SCO Posted: Jul 11, 2003 11:41 AM
Reply to this message Reply

This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Java Buzz by Fred Grott.
Original Post: SUN trying to Fight IBM via SCO
Feed Title: ShareMe Technologies-The Mobile Future
Feed URL: http://sedoparking.com/search/registrar.php?domain=®istrar=sedopark
Feed Description: A Weblog about Java programming and digital convergence on mobile devices in such areas as P2P and collaborative technology. Old Archive . 		Latest Java Buzz Posts
Latest Java Buzz Posts by Fred Grott
Latest Posts From ShareMe Technologies-The Mobile Future

Advertisement
SUN just expanded their 1994 license deal with SCO for their Solaris OS. SUN gets to use some System V code to expand its drivers for intel hardware.

What is bad about this expansion is the warrant for SCO shares of stock granted SUN. I hope SUN is bright enough to realize that exercising the warrant rights would produce no good will or pr in the open source community whether SCO Group is bought or not at the end of November when SCO Group's credit line with one its Founder's runs out.

At this point lets correct ZDnet, while SUN did not get any rights to release System V code in Solaris as opensource from SCO Group; SCO Group does not control that decision. As per an early 1990s court case in which BSD Lite was founded, any System V code found in BSD Lite can be released as open source.

It seems kind of ironic that SUN is buying the right to do new drivers for Intel hardware in Solaris when the drivers already exist in Linux and are open source.

Read: SUN trying to Fight IBM via SCO

Topic: ZVON.org - very cool XML site Previous Topic   Next Topic Topic: Thoughts on Specs:
Sponsored Links


Google
  Web Artima.com   

Copyright © 1996-2019 Artima, Inc. All Rights Reserved. - Privacy Policy - Terms of Use