NewsForge: BSD Developers Speak Out on SCO Campaign

“In view of the latest SCO lawsuit news conference, we have been
talking to BSD professionals to get their opinions, including one
of the principals in the AT&T vs. Berkeley Software Design,
Inc. lawsuit settlement of 1994; a disillusioned former SCO
employee; and several other BSD developers…

“Code that has been identified by SCO includes Unix System V
code as well as copyrighted code included in the 1994 settlement
between Unix Systems Laboratories, Inc. and BSD, Inc. SCO acquired
this code and associated copyrights in 1995 from Novell. SCO
announced Tuesday that it is expanding the scope of its campaign by
incorporating a prominent law firm within its ownership…

“So, it appears that McBride and SCO are planning to do
something based on the 1994 settlement, though what that is remains
unclear. Our take yesterday was that SCO would attack the
settlement to have it overturned. Today we are leaning more to the
view that SCO is going to claim that the 1994 settlement does not
allow the use of Unix code in Linux, even if it was part of 4.4BSD
Lite…”

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