Sun release source code for Solaris 8

Tim Bradshaw tfb at cley.com
Sat Jan 29 02:04:35 AEST 2000


* Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:

> This is in contrast to the Ancient UNIX licence, where it's my
> impression that SCO really doesn't care what you do with UNIX so long
> as you don't share code with unlicensed people.

But that's what you'd expect isn't it?  Sun have some reasonable hope
of continuing to make money from Solaris, and they obviously would
like to retain some control, while SCO is unlikely to be regarding
6th-edition Unix as a big earner...

--tim





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