[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO, IBM, MS, Linux

[Steve Baker]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> 
>>
>> Back in those days, people bought software for their expensive Mainframes
>> and Minicomputers - and the source code just "came with it".  IP rights
>> were simply not on the radar back then.
> 
> 
> Then you need to go to ESR's page http://catb.org/~esr/nosecrets/, fill 
> in the data and join the action.  We need all the help like this we can 
> get.  We cannot let SCO get by with this nonsense.

Yes - I did when it was announced.

I'm not sure it helps - it's well known that Bell Labs handed out the
sources to Universities specifically so students could study it for
their OS courses.

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