From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM]
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:58:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03061913583400.25866@tabby> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A920234CD34@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com>
On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:37, Downing, Thomas wrote:
> I'm no authority, but IMHO
>
> > In article <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de>,
> >
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
[snip]
> > Which makes no sense. You're not at the mercy of Linus or the
> > kernel developers, neither at that of the KDE developers, but
> > TrollTech controls the KDE desktop wrt commercial apps.
>
> No, they don't. KDE uses the GPL for QT. If I build a commercial
> app using KDE, it is GPL. If I build a commercial app not using
> KDE, but using commercial QT, that has no effect on the KDE desktop.
Lets see...
SCO releases Linux code under GPL...
IBM releases code based on Linux...
SCO now changes mind...
And the lawyers gather...
Personally, I don't see a difference...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-19 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-19 17:37 Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM] Downing, Thomas
2003-06-19 18:58 ` Jesse Pollard [this message]
2003-06-19 19:08 ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-19 19:30 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 19:38 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-19 19:41 ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-19 19:48 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-06-19 20:18 ` Erik Hensema
2003-06-20 12:15 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 21:06 ` Richard Braakman
2003-06-19 19:31 ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-19 19:44 ` Thorsten Körner
2003-06-21 6:29 ` John K Luebs
2003-06-21 7:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-06-24 14:17 ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-24 15:41 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-06 16:22 SCO's claims seem empty Paul Rolland
2003-06-19 13:03 ` Sco vs. IBM Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-19 13:14 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19 14:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-19 16:34 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-06-19 16:59 ` Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Larry McVoy
2003-06-19 17:13 ` ismail (cartman) donmez
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