[Cialug] Who should own Unix?

[David Champion]

Lee wrote:
> If anyone...
> 
> Since the question of will SCO win is coming closer to an answer. Whats
> everyone think of Unix being up for grabs? Should SCO fail and a Linux
> friendly entity pick up the pieces. Do they open up unix or lock it down so
> as to avoid it from ever being a physical link to Linux again?
> 

IMHO it's getting so that a proprietary licensed Unix is just about 
obsolete - with Linux, *BSD, HURD (allegedly), plus Sun talking about 
releasing under an OSS-ish license. It would be nice if the Unix 
codebase just became OSS licensed, or dual-licensed like MySQL.

Most likely if SCO loses and goes out of business (story on /. today 
says they're just about to be de-listed from the stock exchange), one of 
the Unix license holders like Sun or IBM will try to pick it up.

-dc