Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@news.widomaker.com> wrote in message news:<slrnb6j3ga.4qp.shannon@news.widomaker.com>...
> In article <b49lci$1t2qkv$1@ID-99522.news.dfncis.de>, Roland Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> > The story broke yesterday that SCO is suing IBM for at least a billion 
> > dollars, while threatening to cancel IBM's Unix license in 100 days 
> > from now, thus putting an end to AIX sooner rather than later. SCO is 
> > apparently  claiming ownership of broad intellectual property rights in 
> > anything that derives from AT&T Unix, of which they are now the happy 
> > owners.
> 
> I don't see how this could be enforced.
> 
> Even if it is, I suspect IBM would at this point be willing to say fine,
> we'll just drop UNIX and move to Linux.
> 
> I just can't see this happening.
> 
> IBM could probably also use other licenses, or maybe use a BSD derivative.
> I would be surprised if IBM didn't have contingencies.
> 
> Well... maybe not.

I thought AIDX was based on 4.2BSD.  And then again, what about BSD? 
Although it is "pure" now, it *does* derive from AT&T UNIX...and then
there's Solaris...

The *X wars seem to be getting ugly.  Probably a good thing I've
avoided everything but Linux and PicoBSD among the *Xen.

-uso.