Microsoft Buying a Unix licence

aaike

aaike

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I just read in the newspaper that Microsoft bought a Unix licence from a company called CSU (if I am not mistaken). This company is claiming that Linux isn't really legal since they are holding a kind of patent or st.
Unfortionatly the article wasn't too detailed on the technical side and was just mentioning Linux and Unix...
I am not sure what this is all about and I wonder which 'version' of Unix they mean because I believe there are a lot and I think that company only owes a patent on one particular version.
I also don't see the point of Microsoft doing this...
 
I do since 1) OS X is Unix based and b) they were stating that some distributions of UNIX are illegal! (I guess OS X is all right...).

But yeah, you're right I might have posted somewhere on another forum...
 
The Company is SCO (Santa Cruz Operations, or something like that)...

About the Lawsuite with Linux; it is about some licencing issues in some distributions os Linux... The article talks about Suse.

For us.... MacOSX users, don't problem, because MacOSX is based in FreeBSD (Free distribution of the Berkeley unix operating system); that means, other kernel, other code, so no problem.

excuse my english, I'm not inspired now :)

clemare
 
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