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Stop lying> If legacy-SCO was able to operate for N years without them, and operate the royalties business with the other UNIX vendors on Novell's behalf, then WTF did SCaldera need them for other than legitious bastardy? This is the one thing Darl almost got right when he said "contracts are what you use against customers" That is exactly what a copyright does; it allows the holder to go after others, since as a licensee, you can't do that. That is what Darl was trying to do. What he failed to understand is that there is a reason nobody in the Un*x industry tried that after USL v BSD. It became obvious to everyone (except for Darl) that ownership of the code was a grey area, and unless you were willing to spend a billion dollars in litigation, you weren't going to get anywhere. And even if you did litigate, the outcome was far from forgone. Which is why the whole Un*x industry was about licensing. That's about all they could do. Not that JJFranksJr understands a word of what I just said. |
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