FC4 or FC5

[bruce]

les...

it hasn't been shown that sco is the "owner" of unix, or that anyone has
infringed...



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:30 AM
To: Sean
Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC4 or FC5


On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:43 -0400, Sean wrote:
>
> > Copyrights and patents are very different approaches.  Microsoft has
> > not chosen to enforce any patent protection against samba yet but
> > that doesn't mean they can't or won't.
>
> Oh well.  Even in the unlikely case that Samba is found to impinge
> on a MS patent and must be withdrawn it won't be the end of the world.
> Microsoft would have to be a bit crazy to go down that road then since
> they would alienate so many customers and potential customers that it
> would likely cost them more than it was worth.

Much, much stranger things have happened...  Back in the days when
AT&T was the world's biggest monopoly and had invented the world's
nicest OS (i.e. up through the early 90's), no one could possibly
have imagined that a company like the current version of SCO would
end up owning the rights to that code or that they'd be suing
everyone in sight over it.

--
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com


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