SCO vs. Fedora Core 724
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:49, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:
SCO is not GNU-Linux, it's a proprietary Unix. Caldera bought SCO a while ago, but then management changed, and Caldera stopped releasing their GNU-Linux distribution, changed the name to SCO and began suing IBM for alleged use of proprietary SCO Unix code in the Linux kernel.
IBM has in the meantime won the case and is now suing SCO, as SCO - a dying company - conveniently received heavy funding from a certain company called Microsoft from Redmond, Washington, just prior to the desist of Caldera's release of OpenLinux, their namechange to SCO and their lawsuit against IBM.
It all depends on the needs your friend has. If he's new to GNU-Linux, he may want to consider Mandriva, SuSE or (K)Ubuntu. If he's looking for a server platform, he'd probably be better off with Debian or Slackware. If he has some experience, perhaps Gentoo would be right for him.
There are too many variables here to give a sound advice on the matter. However, Fedora Core would not be my choice. ;-)
Yes, this is how I understand it, too, from lurking on the Groklaw website and the Yahoo SCOX message board. It's clear now (1) SCOX claims to having any control over ANY...
-- With kind regards,
*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)
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