Re: OT: SCO Extortion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: OT: SCO Extortion
Date
Msg-id 200401250555.i0P5tPc26751@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: OT: SCO Extortion  ("Chris Travers" <chris@travelamericas.com>)
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Chris Travers wrote:
> I am not sure where SCO is coming from or where its influences are.
> However, I have noticed a number of interesting issues which makes me think
> that this is a major problem at SCO which goes back quite a ways.
>
> I remember Ransom Love (former Caldera CEO) writing that the GPL was bad for
> business.  At the time Caldera was a has-been Linux distributor who was
> facing declining sales in part because they had never embraced
> redistributable distros and was being crowded out by RedHat and others.
> Caldera at the time was trying to sell per seat licenses for its Linux
> distro and justifying this by bundling it with proprietary development
> tools.  Love left Caldera after they acquired the OS division of Tarantella
> (formerly SCO) and headed the UnitedLinux project for a while.  Sometime
> afterward, Caldera renamed itself as The SCO Group.

I am not sure you can call Love wrong in his GPL comments.  Isn't this
what Red Hat is moving to with their Enterprise release?  I don't think
that is distributable.  You can have the source and compile your own,
but I don't think you can distribute the Red Hat binaries anymore.  Is
that correct?

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