Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 18th Jul 2008 23:29 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
The convoluted case of SCO v. Novell dealt a heady blow to the SCO Group Wednesday, with United States District Judge Dale Kimball ordering the company to pay $2.5 million to Novell for improperly claiming, and collecting royalties for, the Unix operating system.
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RE[4]: Comment by Coral Snake
by liamdawe on Sun 20th Jul 2008 13:15
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RE[5]: Comment by Coral Snake
by trenchsol on Sun 20th Jul 2008 13:46
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I dislike GPL and derivatives very much, but I still use Linux, because, across the board, it is the fastest and easiest way to get the job done. Stallman and FSF generally make me sick.
FreeBSD and even Windows are much more my "political" choice. Run FreeBSD for almost a year, but I had issues, and went to SUSE. I can discuss it with somebody is interested.
Windows do not offer enough flexibility, using them for anything but entertainment is pain.
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In general I believe these should be under the GNU GPL or similar licensing with exceptions for linking system calls into proprietary programs in order to prevent one company monopolies that can dictate to other software and computer manufacturers on what their products should be like Microsoft does. (This is why Linux is my favorite OS.)
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I thought that Linux is your favorite OS because it meets your needs. It looks to me that you have chosen OS on political criteria. Personally I would have never done that. Correct me if I am wrong.