Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM]

Thorsten Körner
2003-06-19T18:54:26Z

Hi Jesse
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 20:58 schrieb Jesse Pollard:
> 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...
Did they ?!? No they didn't
They are talking about old Unix-Licenses, not about Linux. And SCO also has
not licensed Unix to IBM themselves.

CU
Thorsten