Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[Roland Hutchinson <my_spamtrap@eudoramail.com>]

Sami S. Sihvonen wrote:

> In article <3e4725cf$0$136$45beb828@newscene.com>,
> Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@floodgap.com> wrote:
> 
>> Or you can find someone getting rid of an AIX box
> 
> IBM is dumping the whole operating system, not just one AIX box...
> 
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-982512.html

It's even worse than you think.  

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.

Here are links that I found at linuxtoday.com to a couple of relevant 
news stories:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,920731,00.asp
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991464.html

And ESR has weighed in from the peanut gallery, thus:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-03-07-010-26-OP-CD-LL

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