Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <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.