OT: Novel wins Unix copyrights!

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>With neither thought nor caution, Enrique Arredondo blurted:
>> Just 6 days ago the fight for who owns the Unix copyrights ends!
>> 
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100610161411160
>
>Boy, unless you were watching for it, that went not with a bang, but a
>whimper.  Thanks for the heads-up.

I monitor groklaw with an RSS feed so anything new shows up in my
NetNewsWire reader.

>> So what is going to happen to all SCO servers running on companies ?
>> 
>> Migrate to Linux ?
>
>Or any of the BSD flavours.
>
>Commercial *nix offerings are really kind of going downhill (or went
>downhill).  Discounting OS/X, the only one that's actually remotely popular
>as a server platform is Solaris--which actually gets attention from
>hardcore *nix fans -outside- the Sun hardware sphere, since Solaris x86 was
>made available.

There have been some changes in the openSolaris licensing recently that
seems to make it less desirable as a free platform.  I don't remember the
exact details as I don't subscribe to any solaris lists.

>I think everyone else is either locked into their own hardware, or went
>away, for the most part.
>
>I'm waiting for SCO to fold entirely, now.  Maybe a few clients will
>migrate once the support goes away.  Then again, maybe not--there are
>people out there still running Xenix, unfortunately.  Sadly, it seems that
>many users don't really pay attention to anything about their systems
>until they break in some way, or a new license is needed.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  While I still have old Xenix,
SCO 3.2v4, and other systems of similar antiquity that could
probably be booted, they've been sitting dormant for about a
decade now.  One of these days, I should really boot them to see
if there's anything on their disks that I don't have archived.

Bill
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