[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718
So that means Linux is owned by Novell now?
And doesn't Microsoft own Novell?
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 Aug 10 2007, 1:46 pm
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Aug 10 2007, 4:48 pm
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Cinnom
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Linux was made to be similar to UNIX, but it is not a type of UNIX, and it was not made by Novell. So, no.
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No..
Linux and Mac are stems of UNIX. If NOVELL owns copywrite to UNIX, then they own Linux and Mac? o_o | |
And doesn't Microsoft own Novell? umm... NO! | |
No they aren't. They've had a couple of interactions (since the 1990's), but other than that, they have no interest in the open-source market of Linux. They just know to take advantage of opportunities.
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Linux is not unix. It uses no unix code. It's an entirely separate codebase that happens to fulfil the POSIX specifications
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no
linux is more like a clone made seperate from unix coding so essentually a lookalike or a mimic would be best describing in fact some might consider the linux name to be gnu/linux gnu stands for Gnu's Not Unix so that describes it best it looks like unix but its not altough the name gnu/linux is essentially personal oppinion | |
no
microsoft made deals with novell yes but if microsoft owned novell there would be chaos in the linux community EVEN worse then microsofts allegations that linux infringes microsoft patents because that would mean suse was owned by microsoft and that microsoft was eating its own foot by saying linux is bad and you would end up with windows suse edition | |
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and you would end up with windows suse edition Microsoft wouldn't do that. Any of the changes to the kernel would have to be made open, which isn't something they would want. | |
No, Novell made a 'please don't sue me' deal with Microsoft. But Novell has always been a competitor to Microsoft, and any court that allows Microsoft to own Novell is a corrupt court indeed.
I don't like the deal that Novell made with Microsoft, if only because it makes outsiders fell like Microsoft does have a patent case against Linux(which they don't), but there is no "buddy buddy" between them. | |
