[geeks] I definitely don't admire Sun "The Company" right now...

[Kevin]

Unlike Sun, IBM's license is not irrevocable.  

IBM is not stating that their license is irrevocable
but rather that their current license is not revoked
because there has been no breach of contract.  SCO
states that their has been a breach of contract and due
to force major (if i remember correctly), the contract
can be broken (i.e. license revoked.)

Subtle differences.

/KRM

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:41:41 -0400
Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 03:23 PM, Bill
> Bradford wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sun bought a permanent, non-revokable license to do
> > what they wanted with
> > SysV from AT&T years ago.
> >
> > Even SCO has admitted that they can't go after Sun.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> Right but what makes their license different than the
> AIX license... IBM seems to think theirs is
> irrevocable too... or were their lawyers just dumb.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> It may be capitalism but I think it's still in poor
> taste to thumb their noses at IBM... they should just
> step up their marketing efforts with a nice
> "innocent" poker
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