From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269702AbTGXSeD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:34:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269706AbTGXSeD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:34:03 -0400 Received: from snowman.net ([66.93.83.236]:17425 "EHLO relay.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269702AbTGXSd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:33:58 -0400 From: nick@snowman.net Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:48:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Larry McVoy cc: Yuliy Pisetsky , "Richard B. Johnson" , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux In-Reply-To: <20030724165547.GB19975@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ahh, but if you're MS you don't even have to promise not to do it again, and you get offered additional monopolies (see the "justice" dept's first settlement offer). Why can't we do the same? Nick > end of it is not true in my opinion. If you think about it, it makes sense. > If someone damaged your business and all they had to do was say "whoops, > we'll stop", that's not much of a disincentive. > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm