NOVEL should have bought SCO

From:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1389209,00.asp?kc=EWNWS111903DTX1K0000599

As for the BSDs, McBride said some source code granted to the BSD in 1995 is now in Linux. 
While this isn't a front-burner item, SCO is currently analyzing the BSD source trees to 
see exactly what code, which he estimates to be no more than a few dozen but still vital 
files, were illegally copied from BSD to Linux. Afterward, in a process that he estimates 
will take six months, SCO will decide what, if any, legal action it will take against the 
groups and companies that stand behind the BSD operating systems.

Isn't this interesting.  The BSD license has been reduced to: 'you can do anything you 
want with this code except to claim that you wrote it'.  So, if there is a complaint about 
copying BSD code into Linux it is that if you can prove that it is BSD then it isn't 
subject to the restrictions of the GPL.

Please IBM buy SCO and put an end to this madness. :-)

--
JRT


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