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Originally posted by arch13
No Redhat, no Apache, No MySql, no mandrake. None of it.
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I don't see where Apache and MySql come in...
Both are in no way connected to the supposedly infringing code.
As I understand it, it is the Linux Kernel itself that is the point of debate. Every tool built around it is not in any danger of prosecution. Plus the mentioned programs are both available for other platforms and demand and development will continue on those.
However, it will mean that for many of us, an insecure, overpriced, bloated, choice-limiting, gorilla of an OS is the only option left.
Btw, I never knew IBM sold Unix to SCO, I thought Novell did, and it was sub-licensed to IBM. (during that license period the alleged code transfer has supposedly taken place.)
In the end, I believe free software wil prevail and for as long as the hardware base doesn't change (read: they don't force Palladium/'trusted computing' on us), we as users will have control over our own systems. But this FUD-spreading is seriously damaging Linux' reputation.