Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 11th Jun 2003 21:39 UTC
Apple Computer is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a license. Apple has countersued, asking a judge to declare that the trademark is invalid, because the term Unix has become generic. This legal battle, though separate from SCO's recent claim that Linux uses copyrighted Unix source code, adds further fire to the debate over the custody of Unix--the 30 plus-year old OS originally developed by AT&T.
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I can't remember who made it, but the point of innovation in operating systems was a really good one. The problem is that different isn't always better, it can be just different. Likewise, people don't like radical change. Look at how long it took people to pick up GUI's over CLI's.
In terms of the SCO and OpenGroup cases, this is playing right into Microsoft's hands. All that is happening is that we are taking our eye off the ball--Microsoft. That is the intent of all these actions, and the end result is even more MS dominance as more and more features are co-opted by Microsoft and less and less innovation occurs on the alternate operating systems.
Resistance is futile.