SCO-ügy: OSI állásfoglalás

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Úgy látom sokakat érdekel az SCO-ügy. Nos, itt egy "kis" (elég hosszú) csemege: http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html




Sajnos csak angol nyelven érhető el, de lássunk a tartalomjegyzéket:Introduction

Scope of the position paper

Historical and technical background

The meaning of ‘Unix’

Linux and the advent of open-source programming

The Bell Labs codebase

Relationships among the Unix variants at issue

Corporate history

SCO's history with open source

The meaning of enterprise scalability

SCO/Caldera misrepresents its own history and position

SCO/Caldera's claim to have been a significant enterprise player is false

SCO/Caldera falsely claims to have been unique as an Intel Unix vendor

SCO/Caldera misrepresents the scope of its rights over Unix

SCO/Caldera's claim to own Unix scalability techniques is weak

SCO/Caldera ignores its own role in motivating the development it now decries

SCO/Caldera misrepresents the capability and efforts of the open-source community

SCO/Caldera misrepresents the efforts of the open-source community

SCO/Caldera misrepresents the state of Linux now

SCO/Caldera grossly misrepresents the state of Linux before IBM

Other defects in the facts and logic of the complaint

The public evidence does not support a claim of misappropriation

SCO/Caldera implies claims it is barred from explicitly making

Who owns Unix, anyway?

Policy implications and recommendations

Bibliography

(Work in Progress)




Az írás többnyire esr, azaz Eric S. Raymond keze munkája, aki többek között az OSI (Open Source Initiative) elnöke és számos unix/opensource témájú könyv irója.