I seen to recall that Darl McBride was trying to claim that all code everywhere
that had in any way been incorporated in Unix was theirs. JFS for instance,
which originated at somewhere like IBM, in a different OS like OS-2, and because
a descendant of the original code went into SCOundrelware, other branches of the
tree like AIX and Linux, which inherited the code directly, not passing through
SCOundrelware, legally became SCO property. Taken to extreme, SCO would have
owned the Monopoly, via the inclusion of BSD networking code. Unfortunately
for Darl, copyright and ownership rights only pass downstream, not upstream.
Perhaps water flows uphill in Utah? I see the same wrong thought process here
at work in Apple. But we have seen it with the likes of Gates too, everything
had to be his, or he would have a tantrum and throw his toys out of the
pram. I don't know what it is about the sofware industry, but you don't tend
to see such obsessive attempts at grabbing everything in other fields. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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