les... it hasn't been shown that sco is the "owner" of unix, or that anyone has infringed... -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:30 AM To: Sean Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC4 or FC5 On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:43 -0400, Sean wrote: > > > Copyrights and patents are very different approaches. Microsoft has > > not chosen to enforce any patent protection against samba yet but > > that doesn't mean they can't or won't. > > Oh well. Even in the unlikely case that Samba is found to impinge > on a MS patent and must be withdrawn it won't be the end of the world. > Microsoft would have to be a bit crazy to go down that road then since > they would alienate so many customers and potential customers that it > would likely cost them more than it was worth. Much, much stranger things have happened... Back in the days when AT&T was the world's biggest monopoly and had invented the world's nicest OS (i.e. up through the early 90's), no one could possibly have imagined that a company like the current version of SCO would end up owning the rights to that code or that they'd be suing everyone in sight over it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
