Say "Bye-Bye SCO!"

[Luke -Jr]

On Saturday 22 September 2007, lerninlinux at comcast.net wrote:
> From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol at gmail.com>
> > but they do have a microsoft linux; it's called "Interix" and it is now
> > a free download, called "Microsoft Services for Unix"
>
> I am wondering how long that stays.  Part of what was in it, at least at
> one time was GPL.  Now with GPL3 and it's Patent protection parts (that's
> argued, but hasn't been tried), I wonder how long Microsoft will distribute
> it.

The GPL doesn't force automatic upgrades. If Microsoft started using it under 
GPLv2, nobody can stop them from continuing to use it under GPLv2.