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

Jesse Pollard
2003-06-19T18:45:04Z

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...